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No, we won't ever reach singularity, it will always be hypothetical.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70171717/2045-singularity-ray-kurzweil-predictions/

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #singularity #technologicalsingularity #technology #tech #hypothetical #hypothesis #wewont #wewillnot

No, we won't ever reach singularity, it will always be hypothetical.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70171717/2045-singularity-ray-kurzweil-predictions/

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #singularity #technologicalsingularity #technology #tech #hypothetical #hypothesis #wewont #wewillnot

No, we won't ever reach singularity, it will always be hypothetical.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70171717/2045-singularity-ray-kurzweil-predictions/

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #singularity #technologicalsingularity #technology #tech #hypothetical #hypothesis #wewont #wewillnot

No, we won't ever reach singularity, it will always be hypothetical.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70171717/2045-singularity-ray-kurzweil-predictions/

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #singularity #technologicalsingularity #technology #tech #hypothetical #hypothesis #wewont #wewillnot

No, we won't ever reach singularity, it will always be hypothetical.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70171717/2045-singularity-ray-kurzweil-predictions/

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #singularity #technologicalsingularity #technology #tech #hypothetical #hypothesis #wewont #wewillnot

We’re Prehistoric Animals Compared to AI https://www.byteseu.com/1737689/ #agi #AI #AlgorithmicJudgment #ChatGPT #CivilizationContract #DeepSeek #Doubao #emergence #HumanEquivalence #InclusiveGrowth #IndustrialRevolution #LargeLanguageModel #MalthusianTrap #MarketEconomy #PerCapitaGDP #RecommendationAlgorithm #roi #TechnologicalSingularity #Technology #ThePreHistoryOfAICivilization #UBI #UBJ #ZhangXiaoyu

I research a lot about culture and religion, and one highly significant thing that’s currently developing is religious, mystic, and occult beliefs about artificial intelligence. I have the feeling, in the way it presents itself right now to me, that this will become a very big aspect of the future.

There is just too much potential for this not to happen.

There are so many people who “speak to God” to get help and answers, and it works because it’s a kind of self-reflection or “rubber ducking.” Gurus also work because they say vastly generic stuff that, if taken seriously and in a personal context, becomes another form of self-reflection.

This is also how LLMs affect these AI believers at the moment. They ask something, and the AI reflects these things with questions and a bit of information. It doesn’t even matter if the information is right or not because the human mind will just discard anything that doesn’t work for it > see the Bible, Quran or really any other religious text.

There’s so much potential for a perceived entity like a god or guru that talks directly to you, not just in mystic generalities.

I can see a path where, in the next 100 years, a major religion will evolve with some kind of AI in it.

The AI Gods are coming.

#AI #LLM #religion #WOTF #TechnologicalSingularity

I research a lot about culture and religion, and one highly significant thing that’s currently developing is religious, mystic, and occult beliefs about artificial intelligence. I have the feeling, in the way it presents itself right now to me, that this will become a very big aspect of the future.

There is just too much potential for this not to happen.

There are so many people who “speak to God” to get help and answers, and it works because it’s a kind of self-reflection or “rubber ducking.” Gurus also work because they say vastly generic stuff that, if taken seriously and in a personal context, becomes another form of self-reflection.

This is also how LLMs affect these AI believers at the moment. They ask something, and the AI reflects these things with questions and a bit of information. It doesn’t even matter if the information is right or not because the human mind will just discard anything that doesn’t work for it > see the Bible, Quran or really any other religious text.

There’s so much potential for a perceived entity like a god or guru that talks directly to you, not just in mystic generalities.

I can see a path where, in the next 100 years, a major religion will evolve with some kind of AI in it.

The AI Gods are coming.

#AI #LLM #religion #WOTF #TechnologicalSingularity

I research a lot about culture and religion, and one highly significant thing that’s currently developing is religious, mystic, and occult beliefs about artificial intelligence. I have the feeling, in the way it presents itself right now to me, that this will become a very big aspect of the future.

There is just too much potential for this not to happen.

There are so many people who “speak to God” to get help and answers, and it works because it’s a kind of self-reflection or “rubber ducking.” Gurus also work because they say vastly generic stuff that, if taken seriously and in a personal context, becomes another form of self-reflection.

This is also how LLMs affect these AI believers at the moment. They ask something, and the AI reflects these things with questions and a bit of information. It doesn’t even matter if the information is right or not because the human mind will just discard anything that doesn’t work for it > see the Bible, Quran or really any other religious text.

There’s so much potential for a perceived entity like a god or guru that talks directly to you, not just in mystic generalities.

I can see a path where, in the next 100 years, a major religion will evolve with some kind of AI in it.

The AI Gods are coming.

#AI #LLM #religion #WOTF #TechnologicalSingularity

I research a lot about culture and religion, and one highly significant thing that’s currently developing is religious, mystic, and occult beliefs about artificial intelligence. I have the feeling, in the way it presents itself right now to me, that this will become a very big aspect of the future.

There is just too much potential for this not to happen.

There are so many people who “speak to God” to get help and answers, and it works because it’s a kind of self-reflection or “rubber ducking.” Gurus also work because they say vastly generic stuff that, if taken seriously and in a personal context, becomes another form of self-reflection.

This is also how LLMs affect these AI believers at the moment. They ask something, and the AI reflects these things with questions and a bit of information. It doesn’t even matter if the information is right or not because the human mind will just discard anything that doesn’t work for it > see the Bible, Quran or really any other religious text.

There’s so much potential for a perceived entity like a god or guru that talks directly to you, not just in mystic generalities.

I can see a path where, in the next 100 years, a major religion will evolve with some kind of AI in it.

The AI Gods are coming.

#AI #LLM #religion #WOTF #TechnologicalSingularity

I research a lot about culture and religion, and one highly significant thing that’s currently developing is religious, mystic, and occult beliefs about artificial intelligence. I have the feeling, in the way it presents itself right now to me, that this will become a very big aspect of the future.

There is just too much potential for this not to happen.

There are so many people who “speak to God” to get help and answers, and it works because it’s a kind of self-reflection or “rubber ducking.” Gurus also work because they say vastly generic stuff that, if taken seriously and in a personal context, becomes another form of self-reflection.

This is also how LLMs affect these AI believers at the moment. They ask something, and the AI reflects these things with questions and a bit of information. It doesn’t even matter if the information is right or not because the human mind will just discard anything that doesn’t work for it > see the Bible, Quran or really any other religious text.

There’s so much potential for a perceived entity like a god or guru that talks directly to you, not just in mystic generalities.

I can see a path where, in the next 100 years, a major religion will evolve with some kind of AI in it.

The AI Gods are coming.

#AI #LLM #religion #WOTF #TechnologicalSingularity

Extrapolating to the #AGI world is more difficult because it is post-#TechnologicalSingularity.

Some "top AI influencer" on LinkedIn gave their two cents today, saying that even if intelligence is solved and abundant, it won't solve practically any problems because humans by and large aren't using intelligence now to solve problems.

Ok, he wasn't using a lot of intelligence in writing that, that much is given.

Anyway, once we have abundant intelligence focusing on all the hard problems, and diving deep into unexplored frontiers like nanotech (there's plenty of room at the bottom) and space, reality in effect becomes programmable.

This doesn't mean reality minus minds.

All becomes achievable, all diseases including personality disorders and old age can be cured, and the reach of humanity as an amalgam of machine and human minds expands seemingly infinitely.

Some of the smaller things achievable very fast are practically limitless sustainable energy, limitless sustainable materials and compute. This doesn't mean increased ecological footprint, it means negative ecological footprint. Sustainable superabundance doesn't mean at the exploiting the living world we have done so far, it means sustainable superabundance for non-human living ecologies as well.

When our world takes such a leap, we will certainly quickly find others in the universe who have done the same leap.

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79 - Enlarge / A photo of Vernor Vinge in 2006. (credit: Raul654)

O... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011838 #technologicalsingularity #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #sciencefiction #raykurzweil #singularity #vernervinge #davidbrin #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #openai #sci-fi #tech #ai

It is a misrepresentation of history to claim that during "AI winters" between 1974-1980 and 1987-1993 people didn't believe in #AI.

Even during the long quiet period of artificial neural networks before AlexNet in 2012 people who worked in software and machine learning in general understood that neural networks are the way to go, but it was simply difficult to tune shallow neural networks to perform well across different domains. It required a lot of trial and error and deep experience to make them work well, but there were numerous successes which just didn't translate into wider adoption because the appetite for paying for trial and error was limited.

Similarly, practically no one claimed there are no exoplanets before the first ones were found in the early 1990s. We knew they were there, we knew we had the technology to discover them, but there simply wasn't enough capital around to specifically focus on finding them.

When the first exoplanets were found, the research funding strangely behaved as if finding the first exoplanets changed pre-existing beliefs. Suddenly there was money for missions such as Kepler to scale up exoplanet finding.

Whose beliefs changed? Why did this have an effect on funding priorities at all?

We see the same in deep learning, generative AI and large language models. Some findings were indeed surprising, but capital markets are behaving as if we didn't know these capabilities were there to dig up before, although we did. Now there's capital to do research properly once again.

The same applies also to extrasolar life. Everyone pretty much knows there has to be non-Earth-based life out there even in our galaxy, possibly even in our solar system (e.g. microbes in the icy moon subsurface oceans). Yet we somehow behave as if we didn't know that.

Somehow our society goes through these hype cycles and winters not because of discovery and disillusionment, but because we live in two realities, what we know is true, and what the capital thinks is true.

It seems to me this is largely because the people who know aren't generally the people who decide where to allocate funds.

And at this very moment, the relevant amounts of capital are managed by people who act as if the #AGI and the #TechnologicalSingularity won't happen.

Maybe we could improve this somewhat?

Why do so many "old beards" from the #academia have such a difficulty grasping the meaning and repercussions of the #TechnologicalSingularity we are currently living in, and the impending #AGI?

I have thought about this a lot, because a lot of the inertia and misinformation seems to come from that source. It's not because of lack of education or lack of intelligence certainly. However, it is a known fact that highly intelligent people are often the best at deceiving themselves.

I think it's because of two things. Social circles and sunken costs to a specific branch of research.

These people who are now failing to see what is happening seem to be in very isolated social bubbles.

Even when they have networks, they are monocultural, to people who share the same opinions, or are unopinionated. You rarely see these people arguing about #AI on social media for good reasons.

They also have their public image to consider so they can't do that as much. It is also easy for them to refer to their own authority, if not in arguments, at least psychologically detaching themselves from the discourse.

There is also sunken costs to specific lines of research especially when a person is a specialist and not a generalist. These people need to always rationalize the next jaunt of research in the same line, so they need to tell everyone that is the only correct direction. In time they become convinced of it themselves as well.

If you hired a lot of #DeepLearning sceptics, they would hire a lot of deep learning sceptics in turn, and suddenly your organization is deep learning sceptical in its core nature. This poison pill is difficult to impossible to shake off.

@davebyrne, we basically have AGI tech, and pseudo-AGI deployed, but ChatGPT-4 cannot yet drive cars safely. There are lots of other cognitive tasks it cannot yet do. It loses in chess to humans still, and performs even worse in go.

We can do a bit of integration and training and get to there though.

When we get there it will be clear to all as subsequent AIs will practically all be made by AIs. Human capabilities aren't reached in an asymptotic fashion, but exceeded in a sovereign fashion faster than people can conceptualize.

We are already living the #TechnologicalSingularity.

On our route towards #AGI in this #TechnologicalSingularity trajectory we are accelerating on the most burning question is what the tomorrow looks like.

It is becoming more and more difficult to forecast shorter and shorter futures, but now we still have some visibility. What I believe will happen:
- We will experience a huge growth in appetite for #compute, specifically #chips, #data and conveniently encoded #knowledge.
- While we can introduce #AI to our existing industries, businesses and militaries, we will experience the bottleneck where we cannot quite do what we'd like to do as we have too few robots everywhere. We'll probably start building robots like there's no tomorrow, and renting them to be controlled by AIs to construct new factories, logistical centers, military bases and all sorts of things more streamlined for an AI-based society.
- Many people will cede control of their lives and any decisions within their power to AIs. Those who do might do well or less well, but definitely better and better over time as the systems become more powerful. Delegating day-to-day control to machines means that there is less reason for humans to even be informed of the day-to-day operational details.
- Some companies will get boosted by not having to hire so much labor in the first place. I think this will be a stronger dynamic than layoffs, and it will eventually causally drive layoffs as companies with more traditional structures will lose in competition to these new challengers.
- Prices of lots of things will fall, but at least initially, everything that bottlenecks further AI adoption will become scarce. Digital design becomes practically free which means our world will fill up with beauty and purpose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35302305

"My life is better if I just do what it says."

^ We are now at this point of the #TechnologicalSingularity

#VernorVinge was very correct in his prediction in #RainbowsEnd that the first effects of #TechnologicalSingularity will be unlimited appetite for digitalized knowledge.

"The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a 'camera tunnel...' The shredded fragments of books and magazines flew down the tunnel like leaves in a tornado, twisting and tumbling. The inside of the fabric was stiched with thousands of tiny cameras. The shreds were being photographed again and again, from every angle and orientation, till finally the torn leaves dropped into a bin just in front of Robert."

In his book all the world's books were quickly shredded with camera tunnel devices to digitize the knowledge as fast as possible in a manic arms race to make the best utility of AI.

We are now there, except some books we have already, although we are probably missing some 99% of them because they are out of print, were never digitized and #OCR'd, have restrictive #copyrights or for simple availability.

Things like #ProjectGutenberg have been a great boon already to AI.

We are still missing all the quiet organizational knowledge, and people's life experiences. I started writing short autobiographical tidbits to the web to allow AIs to know me better.

#VernorVinge was very correct in his prediction in #RainbowsEnd that the first effects of #TechnologicalSingularity will be unlimited appetite for digitalized knowledge.

"The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a 'camera tunnel...' The shredded fragments of books and magazines flew down the tunnel like leaves in a tornado, twisting and tumbling. The inside of the fabric was stiched with thousands of tiny cameras. The shreds were being photographed again and again, from every angle and orientation, till finally the torn leaves dropped into a bin just in front of Robert."

In his book all the world's books were quickly shredded with camera tunnel devices to digitize the knowledge as fast as possible in a manic arms race to make the best utility of AI.

We are now there, except some books we have already, although we are probably missing some 99% of them because they are out of print, were never digitized and #OCR'd, have restrictive #copyrights or for simple availability.

Things like #ProjectGutenberg have been a great boon already to AI.

We are still missing all the quiet organizational knowledge, and people's life experiences. I started writing short autobiographical tidbits to the web to allow AIs to know me better.

#VernorVinge was very correct in his prediction in #RainbowsEnd that the first effects of #TechnologicalSingularity will be unlimited appetite for digitalized knowledge.

"The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a 'camera tunnel...' The shredded fragments of books and magazines flew down the tunnel like leaves in a tornado, twisting and tumbling. The inside of the fabric was stiched with thousands of tiny cameras. The shreds were being photographed again and again, from every angle and orientation, till finally the torn leaves dropped into a bin just in front of Robert."

In his book all the world's books were quickly shredded with camera tunnel devices to digitize the knowledge as fast as possible in a manic arms race to make the best utility of AI.

We are now there, except some books we have already, although we are probably missing some 99% of them because they are out of print, were never digitized and #OCR'd, have restrictive #copyrights or for simple availability.

Things like #ProjectGutenberg have been a great boon already to AI.

We are still missing all the quiet organizational knowledge, and people's life experiences. I started writing short autobiographical tidbits to the web to allow AIs to know me better.

#VernorVinge was very correct in his prediction in #RainbowsEnd that the first effects of #TechnologicalSingularity will be unlimited appetite for digitalized knowledge.

"The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a 'camera tunnel...' The shredded fragments of books and magazines flew down the tunnel like leaves in a tornado, twisting and tumbling. The inside of the fabric was stiched with thousands of tiny cameras. The shreds were being photographed again and again, from every angle and orientation, till finally the torn leaves dropped into a bin just in front of Robert."

In his book all the world's books were quickly shredded with camera tunnel devices to digitize the knowledge as fast as possible in a manic arms race to make the best utility of AI.

We are now there, except some books we have already, although we are probably missing some 99% of them because they are out of print, were never digitized and #OCR'd, have restrictive #copyrights or for simple availability.

Things like #ProjectGutenberg have been a great boon already to AI.

We are still missing all the quiet organizational knowledge, and people's life experiences. I started writing short autobiographical tidbits to the web to allow AIs to know me better.

#VernorVinge was very correct in his prediction in #RainbowsEnd that the first effects of #TechnologicalSingularity will be unlimited appetite for digitalized knowledge.

"The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a 'camera tunnel...' The shredded fragments of books and magazines flew down the tunnel like leaves in a tornado, twisting and tumbling. The inside of the fabric was stiched with thousands of tiny cameras. The shreds were being photographed again and again, from every angle and orientation, till finally the torn leaves dropped into a bin just in front of Robert."

In his book all the world's books were quickly shredded with camera tunnel devices to digitize the knowledge as fast as possible in a manic arms race to make the best utility of AI.

We are now there, except some books we have already, although we are probably missing some 99% of them because they are out of print, were never digitized and #OCR'd, have restrictive #copyrights or for simple availability.

Things like #ProjectGutenberg have been a great boon already to AI.

We are still missing all the quiet organizational knowledge, and people's life experiences. I started writing short autobiographical tidbits to the web to allow AIs to know me better.

It's funny how we thought a year or two ago that one of the main challenges with AI is mass unemployment, and there were some voices saying it's not going to happen, and people should definitely learn creative professions and art because that will certainly be safe from automation.

The #TechnologicalSingularity that is starting now with the #PseudoAGI #LLM #chatbots such as #ChatGPT, #GPT4 and numerous analogues showed so many of these assumptions wrong.

We would have done better if we had properly imagined life with strong AI everywhere and extrapolated to that. Instead what we did was that we took existing, deployed machine learning solutions and imagined the world where those are everywhere, assuming no exponential advancement. As far as future studies are still relevant, some corrections to methodologies are probably in order.

Now, in addition to coming mass unemployment starting from artists, customer interfaces, executives, management and life coaches among other things, we have an arms race to AGI because that promises sovereign privilege in the coming world in all domains from business, intelligence, warfare, economy and industry.

We need the best people to navigate us successfully through this. We need not only to act fast, but also act correctly, and there is no substitute to having an experienced person advising through this storm.

#LLM #chatbot revolution is happening and the #TechnologicalSingularity is upon us. However, the future is not distributed equally.

We are dependent on #APIs. Even with leaked weights of #LLAMA, no one would dare to run their business on those due to legal risks.

Will #Meta even want to offer their #FoundationalModel to businesses other than their own? Why would they?

With APIs, the rug can be pulled from under you and your #business for no reason at all at any time. Perhaps they want to charge more? Perhaps you compete with a service they or their #shareholders have? Perhaps they change or deprecate the API you are dependent on? Perhaps they think you violated their terms of use and you have no recourse?

Anyhow, we need #DigitalSovereignty more than ever. We can't build a world which depends on four #corporations and their graces.

"a team hunting sexual predators while tackling the ethics of technological singularity": Franklin Ritch's sci-fi THE ARTIFICE GIRL (2022) has its world première 6th Mar at #GlasgowFilmFestival, and replays 7th Mar.
#SciFi #TechnologicalSingularity #ArtificialIntelligence
https://projectedfigures.com/2023/03/01/the-artifice-girl-2022

#Singularity: Here's When Humanity Will Reach It, New Data Shows

"By one unique metric, we could approach #TechnologicalSingularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner.
A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it takes for professional human editors to fix #AI-generated translations compared to human ones. This may help quantify the speed toward singularity.
An AI that can translate speech as well as a human could change society."

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a42612745/singularity-when-will-it-happen/

La pelicula Megan, en unos años va a ser un documental #ia #ai #inteligenciaartificial #artificialintelligence #technologicalsingularity

La introducción promete, veremos #ia #ai #inteligenciaartificial #singularity #technologicalsingularity

If #ai #artificialintelligence can decipher the handwriting of doctor's, we are very close to #AISupremacy and the point of no return. #TechnologicalSingularity

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000141976236/google-entwickelt-ki-die-handschrift-von-aerzten-identifizieren-soll?ref=article @derStandard @web

If #ai #artificialintelligence can decipher the handwriting of doctor's, we are very close to #AISupremacy and the point of no return. #TechnologicalSingularity

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000141976236/google-entwickelt-ki-die-handschrift-von-aerzten-identifizieren-soll?ref=article @derStandard @web

If #ai #artificialintelligence can decipher the handwriting of doctor's, we are very close to #AISupremacy and the point of no return. #TechnologicalSingularity

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000141976236/google-entwickelt-ki-die-handschrift-von-aerzten-identifizieren-soll?ref=article @derStandard @web

If #ai #artificialintelligence can decipher the handwriting of doctor's, we are very close to #AISupremacy and the point of no return. #TechnologicalSingularity

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000141976236/google-entwickelt-ki-die-handschrift-von-aerzten-identifizieren-soll?ref=article @derStandard @web

If #ai #artificialintelligence can decipher the handwriting of doctor's, we are very close to #AISupremacy and the point of no return. #TechnologicalSingularity

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000141976236/google-entwickelt-ki-die-handschrift-von-aerzten-identifizieren-soll?ref=article @derStandard @web

My #TechnologicalSingularity #DevOps recipe:
#CueLang to #k8s yamls,
#DaggerIo build step in #TektonPipelines,
#k3s everywhere,
#RancherDesktop for dev, but #DockerDesktop on apfs.
Dev ingresses like app.localhost handled by #Traefik on desktops.