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Hard to imagine that a 24 rack of coca cola is actually cheaper than an iodine tablet or a couple drops of household bleach or you know, boiling water.
It can be when you don’t have access to boiling water, bleach, iodine tablets, and/or the water you have access to is extremely contaminated with chemicals because of pollution.
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> There's also a need to consider the rights that this new intelligence should have A generally intelligent being held as captive inside of a GPU, and forced to code for us is, indeed, just a “slave.” We already have the word for this. No two ways about it. Whether it’s silicon-based or carbon-based, AGI is AGI. As for what might happen to our civilization, Star Trek TNG episode 17 of season 1 provides a very good gl…
Conflating intelligence with qualia is quite the assumption. HN is really not a good place for serious philosophy discussions.
Demis has only 1 plan, how to dodge releasing a new model at this point, jokes aside I value thinking about AI safety, but are we really so close to AGI? It doesn't feel like it, LLMs still diagnose my headache as a chronic illness or a brain tumor from time to time... honestly stressful.
And the plan is... checks notes ...gatekeep and concentrate. Not very surprising.
"It will help us solve some of the biggest problems society faces from accelerating drug discovery to developing new clean energy sources to creating novel advanced materials" — but these are not the real problems plaguing modern developed societies, are they? What developed societies really need to figure out right now is how to distribute the already available resources without making people miserable, and so far A…
I'd like AI to stay at the frontier of humans vs nature, not humans vs humans.