Twitter (Takes a while to curate your feed, but you get the freshest information there, as well as quality informed content if you follow the right people i.e. academics and researchers)

r/singularity (the rest of Reddit is far too behind talking about AI; r/ChatGPT can have good content amongst all the garbage)

YouTube (AI Explained, Firecode, Robert Miles. Content is very quickly outdated though)

Less Wrong

Hacker News

I actually think people on HN are pretty informed on the rate of change in AI. The recent post about a 3D artist becoming disillusioned with their work after being 'replaced' with GPT had a lot of comments clearly discussing the immediate and massive impact AI will have on society.

/r/StableDiffusion if you want to find the people at the forefront of waifu booba generation. For the last couple months, there's been new discoveries, inventions, and techniques almost daily.

I believe that you are looking for the ML community. Though they may not agree with you that programming work will be obsolete in 4 years. If you believe that there are communities (with smart people in them), who aren’t seeing something clearly, perhaps they are, but do not share your opinions. No one can predict the future - I have some very experienced friends in the AI industry who believe we’re in an AI winter, but the hype hasn’t died off yet.

Personally, I like Mastodon. The communities are still a bit smaller so it’s possible to find people with the blend of opinions that you’re talking about.

I'm on a busy bus and can't click on anything in that subreddit because I'm afraid I'll burst out laughing. Will Smith eating spaghetti was not something I expected to see on my commute home 😂

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Porn drives innovation, a lot of people don't like to admit it, but male sex drive is generally insatiable. Huge vector of overall technological progress

The subreddit itself is pretty clean of anything NSFW and is generally a very helpful community that's focused on technical stuff as much as memes, but once you start digging into the links and models it very quickly takes a turn for the pornographic. And Will Smith eating spaghetti.

> Well, it's an interesting perspective you've got there, but it's not entirely accurate to say that porn is the main driver of innovation. Sure, the adult entertainment industry has contributed to the popularization of some technologies, but it's just one small piece of a much larger puzzle. Technological advancements come from various fields like medicine, transportation, and communication, which address a wide range of human needs and desires.

> As for the male sex drive being insatiable, it's important to remember that everyone's experience and needs are unique, and generalizing like that can lead to misunderstandings. It might be helpful to take a step back and think about how much time we spend focusing on adult content, and consider whether that energy could be channeled into exploring other aspects of life or even learning about the countless innovations happening in other industries. Remember, balance is key in all aspects of life! 😉

Sorry, but your friends' opinion is an incredibly stupid and utterly absurd one. Disagreeing about the future is one thing but saying we're presently in an AI winter is one of the most fucking stupid and delusional things I have ever read in my entire life.

Pretty much just this sub

You’re certainly entitled to that take. I will clarify that they are talking about research, not commercialization. And I’ll grant you that I’m an internet rando who could be making up my so-called “friends”. FWIW, these are people I consider accomplished in the field (AI research positions at big tech, successful AI entrepreneurs, university AI researchers)

I would encourage you to read the research for yourself (perhaps you already have) rather than the marketing output of AI companies. “Attention is all you need” is a good start. And if you’re looking for a strong argument in favor of AI winter, “stochastic parrots” is a good line of inquiry.

I’m not trying to support any particular viewpoint, just adding other perspectives.

Did you just pull out a GPT-4 on us bro? 🧐

The singularity is near.

1. On average 6 papers on AI are being released per minute (I paraphrased a little, but the actual stats were something like this, correct me if I'm wrong). How is this AI winter?

2. GPT-4 isn't stochastic parrot

I'm not trying to support any particular viewpoint either.

Well, I don't want to be rude to someone that has been polite to me, it's just... this "We're currently in an AI winter" is about as credible as a Flat Earth argument. I don't really see the need to dig deeply into a viewpoint that's transparently ludicrous, any more than I would research Moon landing conspiracy theories or watch an hour long video about why Barack Obama was assassinated in 2011 and replaced by a robot that was created by the child of John Wayne Gacy and Abraham Lincoln.

r/machinelearning seems to be a good sub. People seem grounded, yet have a very good understanding of the field and are up to date.

It's a little less fanciful than this sub, but that's why I like this sub.

The sub seems really technical

You forgot about the part where OP said, "smart about what AI is and isn't currently capable of."

Twitter is the way, curate the feed with industry experts and the random leaker of info and you will get a lot more out of it than here.

Would you mind sharing who you follow?

@goodside,@DrJimFan,@ilyasut,@repligate,@karpathy,@sama,@vladquant, @yoheinakajima, @nearcyan, @bayeslord, @bio_bootloader,@chloe21e8 that’s a few

Edit: I see you lurking 👀

Are we allowed to use GPT for our comments here?

It’s probably not something we want to get out of control. (Not that you can control it). That’s why I quoted and I don’t plan to keep doing it.

They are too conservative in general and don't really get it (or don't want to).

I'd always make to make clear when what I commented was from GPT

While I agree that we will have super human AI soon, the fact that a lot of expert groups disagree is evidence against that I idea and shouldn't be discarded without reason.

I do think they are incorrect but it's important to not get high on your own supply and decide that everyone who disagrees with you is wrong solely because they disagree with you.

it has yet to be seen if current language models will be capable of creating software as well as humans. due to training datasets being based on human text, it's limited in it's intelligence. it may require new breakthroughs or a different pathway to reach something equivalent to AGI. certainly this view is not uncommon among AI researchers, so maybe you should try yourself to be understanding of different views, rather than blindly believing LLMs will eclipse humans shortly

Have you considered the possibility that you're wrong? That in a few years GPT-N won't be better at creating any piece of software better than all humans?

It's mostly because you won't find anyone of reasonable intelligence who falls for the BS.

There's a certain level of intelligence that enters the "quantum mechanics" level of emulation, which in the practical sense, cannot be applied to practical utility in any sense of the word. There are countless papers about consciousness, reality, and an insane amount of metaphysical concepts all crammed into one list. It's the same as teaching science fiction as fact, when we have no reality to base it on.

There is a large gap between what is metaphysical, and what is realistic in this industry. The people who follow the reality of what is happening, are following the works of those scientists who create the work, not the ones who are constantly doomsaying about the outcome of the work without understanding it.

If you follow those pragmatic men and women, you may find the answers you're interested in. This entire industry is full of liars, scam artists, shams, snake oil salesmen, and everything between the lines.

If you find a group of reasonably intelligent and competent pragmatic scientists who are basing their work off the engineering aspects of what they're building, you'll find a group of men and women who just want to keep building. There's a deep passion to develop systems like this in the hopes to someday reach the singularity.

The ultimate goal is to provide every human the ability to intuitively know calculus, trig, deep psychological complexities, philosophy, sciences, art, and everything else that any human could desire to have access to knowledge-wise.

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Thanks.