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JerrodDRagon t1_j72al95 wrote

I heard years ago AI could never do the things it can now

This is before huge companies put billions into the tech

We can either accept that AI will slowly take more jobs and give humans more time to work on other things or ignore it until it affects your life

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ReExperienceUrSenses OP t1_j72dlwo wrote

I should have used "not sure if ever" because everyone keeps getting caught up on that. I was being provocative.

I too thought we were in a new era. But then I learned the mechanics of how this tech works and its limitations. Then I compared with the thing we are trying to emulate/simulate see even more limitations. I base my conjecture of "never" on the severe hardware limitations I can see.

I use the word "never" because I know that if we were to overcome those limitations, it would be with machinery that looks and operates nothing like anything we have now (von neumann, finite instruction set architecture. The stored program computer essentially), so much so that all of the hangups we currently have with things like job loss and runaway superintelligence, do not apply.

We have made many gains, sure. But I try to point out that the symbol grounding problem persists, we just hid all the human involvement. None of you believes that Expert Systems will lead to an AGI, but "neural networks" are given a lot of leeway because of that illusion.

People made progress with Alchemy too.

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JerrodDRagon t1_j72es5y wrote

ChatGPT just reached a million users

That means more money will be invested and more data use

I personally think its to best time to invest in the tech and stop worrying about what it will be used for

If spend time looking up stocks over arguing with Reddit users The only reason I’m not investing more is because I have to wait for my next pay check

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