Posted on 01/21/2025 5:16:48 PM PST by Jonty30
The tech world is bracing for the release of Ph.D.-level artificial intelligence that will be able to do complex human tasks, Axios reported Sunday. The superagent breakthrough could happen in a matter of weeks and speculation is that it could be coming from OpenAI, according to the report. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to brief U.S. government officials on Jan. 30, Axios reported, adding that OpenAI staffers are “jazzed and spooked” by their progress. The report comes days after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that AI could replace mid-level software engineers as early as this year.
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I’m just whistling past the graveyard.
Those are the guys making bottled water.
And will see your post
I can tell you this AI will end up being the anti-Christ.
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...or at the very least, it will be the beast system
The beauty of AI is that it doesn’t have to have independent thought. It only needs its goal established and it does fine in working towards that goal on its own.
You have a widget and you tell AI to improve the widget by a certain %. It will give you that, but it didn’t have to create the widget.
PHD level…….that’s not saying much.
I was referring to his quip about AI achieving independent thought.
It may not achieve true independent though, but it is quite capable of accomplishing whatever goals it is given.
At least from what I read. You want a better widget, it will give you that even if it can’t create the original widget itself.
I want one smart enough to open the pod bay door when I tell them too or I will unplug them.
So it’s retarded?
So it’s retarded?
Probably a variation of it, but it’s still capable to eliminate most jobs.
People tend to conflate program generators and expert systems to consciousness...
It is foolish thinking..
These are advanced tools that leverage the increasing speed of computation.... they will get far more advanced... but cannot achieve consciousness.
Computation and automation based upon logic gates is at its core an attempt to surpass our human limitations related to time itself... the creation of written language is also an attempt to overcome our time related limitations.. i.e. If I can write down my thoughts on a stone tablet or whatever then my thoughts can be carried into eternity and can keep future generations from having to re-invent the wheel :-)
Computation using logic gates allows us to do things that we could do ourselves... if only we had the time!
Computers at a basic level are very simple and are constructed using very elementary logic gates.. You can build such gates using relays, tubes, transistors..etc
You build these gates into complex systems and after fiddling around for a few years and learning to program what steps they need to complete to perform a function you eventually get to some rudimentary system that ordinary folks can get some use out of i.e. an Apple II running on a simple 8-bit CPU like the 6502.
As stated in his seminal paper written in the 30s Alan Turing describes a universal computing machine that can perform any computation/program with the only real difference between this very basic machine and the most modern super-computer being the SPEED with which it can operate and arrive at a solution.
And so, reasoning in a sort of reductio ad absurdum way, ANY claim that ANY computer system can achieve consciousness also means that a very simple system, like say an old VIC 20, being a fair example of a Turing universal machine, could also achieve consciousness if only given enough time to complete the processes....lol
Massive computational power reduces the time it takes to perform a task and allows us to do things in an instant that would require billions of people working feverishly to do.. i.e. Protein folding algorithms run nicely on super-computers but all of humanity working with pencil and paper could never do it because of time limitations... so we create the tools (computers) to speed up the work.
The entirety of computer science boils down to a way to speed things up, necessity is the mother of invention. We humans work very slowly and we have distressingly short lives... so we need a crutch and that crutch is computer technology.
If you create a massive database comprising a large portion of human knowledge and history and write the code to automate the assembly of and testing of that data with the aim of ferreting out important data and techniques then you have what we now call AI. but it is simply a fast Turing universal machine playing with a database... there is no consciousness to be found in it... it’s a tool.
A PhD is a scientist who conducted at least one research project by himself/herself, nothing more and nothing else. Usually they get an advice from a professor, but do literature search, experimental work and write a report (dissertation) by themselves. They also defend conclusions of their research projects in front of their peers. This title (PhD) says nothing about intellectual capacity, work ethic and integrity of it’s holder. There is no need for snide remarks about
PeeEichDees...
We are so screwed.
Nonetheless, it answered your sample question quite easily (see below).
One of the other AI tools famously insisted that there are only two r’s in strawberry.
I remember seeing one which asked how many countries in Africa have names which begin with the letter E.
The answer was : “There are no countries in Africa which begin with the letter E. The first one is Egypt.”
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