The problem isn't numbers. It's location. Need to move humans away from fertile places like rainforests.

This is a false dichotomy and blatantly wrong. We can help humanity thrive without mass murder or depopulation by changing the dominant system to one that serves humanity rather than a wealthy few and makes efficient use of resources. Given the massive waste and unequal distribution under our capitalist status quo we have more than enough resources to give every person a basically good life while still protecting the environment. Read Less is More by Jason Hickel for a comprehensive summary.

This is an unpopular opinion with all of the environmental concerns we have at the moment (which are both legitimate and serious), but with advances in technology, Earth can hold a ludicrous number of people comfortably.

If AGI was here, genetic engineering of crops will be supercharged, fusion will be fast-tracked, and truly intelligent systems will be ubiquitous.

A Thanos-inspired solution would do far more harm than the overpopulation it is supposedly addressing.

This. I'm a structural engineer who stamps his own work and had a similar thought. AI won't remove responsibility of liability, at least in the mid-future. For example, there's already software programs that have code standards already boiled in, and it's part of my responsibility to double check that those standards are correct and applicable. If something fails, I get sued, not the software developer.

Until AI achieves person-hood in the eyes of the law, there will always need to be a human in the chain who is ultimately responsible for it's actions, i.e. a person who told the AI to perform an action.

How much creepvine and acid mushroom is needed to make a cake like this?

Start doing lots of stretching and flexibility exercises in preparation to kissing my ass goodbye.

A new analysis of data from the last 40 years suggests there may be water hiding beneath the frozen surfaces of two of Uranus’ moons. Why is that significant? They are the latest two celestial bodies in our solar system believed to be potential hosts of life. Who knows - it could be a useful refuelling outpost/staging point for human missions explorations into deep space in the centuries to come.

They're just perfecting the ingredients and recipes for the first commercially available replicator.

What's the point of that? If it's for my entertainment - I would know. If they need me, specifically - them they can scan me and just run AI copy in the simulation.

Robotics groups have tried. So far, they can make a robot do one type of stitch - only it can only do 4 stitches in a row and even then only 50% of the time. Is it solvable? Perhaps, but it's going to require some major leaps forward..

Literally any services... Anything creative or needing a physical presence IRL, is very unlikely.

There are two limitations for your idea.

The first is computing power. Language transformers (like GPT-3 and 4) require a beefy hardware to run. As an example, to run one of the open source transformers (GPT-NeoX) locally, you need at least two high end graphics cards. We are still a long way from running this on a phone - but we can run the language transformer on a server and have your phone talk to the server.

The second limitation is result accuracy. As someone else noted, language transformers occasionally hallucinate wrong information. Think about it this way: What a language transformer does is basically that it strings together words in the most plausible way it can. It doesn't understand the words. For simple problems, the most plausible sounding solution just also happens to be factually correct. For more complex problems, it will hallucinate plausible sounding, but factually wrong information.

There are two ways to tackle this problem.

The first is the one you've mentioned, fine-tuning the language model on established data like textbooks. This will reduce hallucinations, but likely not by a great amount.

The second solution is akin to what Bing currently does: Combine the language transformer with regular full-text search. You ask your phone "What's the max fill on a cable tray type XY?", this gets run through the language transformer to extract key search terms from your question, in this case "max fill" and "cable tray XY". A regular text search for these key words is performed and the system finds a couple possibly relevant hits: Page 12 paragraph 10, page 33 paragraph 2 and so on. These relevant paragraphs are then fed into the language transformer together with your original query: "Hey language transformer, asnwer the question Whats the max fill on cable tray XY using information from these paragraphs: ..."

The language transformer then summarizes the paragraphs in natural language according to your query, spits out a result and your phone tells you "The max fill is 42 cables. Source: Textbook Name Page 12."

So yes, this is very possible and personally I expect to see this popping up a lot in the future.

You can do that very thing already with Bing, it will search the web and give you a source for its result.

There is so much research being conducted, we can’t possible be exposed to it all. I’ve read a few scientific articles regarding psilocybin activating neuro-pathways in spinal cord injury patients. In one case a young man with paraplegia was able to regain control over his hamstring muscles with the help of psilocybin. It’s neuroplasticity qualities help the brain form and reorganize new connections. Im not saying we’re close to finding a cure, but we’re on the right path

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> Engineers at Columbia University unveiled this world's first [3D-printed cheesecake] Tuesday, made by the technology meticulously layering seven edible inks to form a triangular shape.
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> The team has not shared how the cheesecake tastes, only that it is vegan, but notes the experiment is to demonstrate how 3D printing will upheave the food assembly industry.
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> The authors note that the precision printing of multi-layered food items could produce more customizable foods, improve food safety and enable users to control the nutrient content of meals more easily - and in less time.

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it's almost like new things start out shit and get improved as the technology advances...

Hey fellas! I made a cake that's way more expensive and tastes awful ... FOR SCIENCE

omfg as if this is in any way easier or more tasty than baking an actual cake /edit: Why do engineers have nothing else to do?

> Engineers at Columbia University unveiled this world's first [3D-printed cheesecake] Tuesday, made by the technology meticulously layering seven edible inks to form a triangular shape.
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> The team has not shared how the cheesecake tastes, only that it is vegan, but notes the experiment is to demonstrate how 3D printing will upheave the food assembly industry.
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> The authors note that the precision printing of multi-layered food items could produce more customizable foods, improve food safety and enable users to control the nutrient content of meals more easily - and in less time.

At the moment it has a habbit of generating fake facts which are quite convincing. Technical things and nuances in a prompt - it hiccups on from time to time.

Err.. for one it often steals code, but always snippets. And usually it doesn't work. We've got plenty of bad code it's generated in the programming humour subreddit.

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Yes, but the current problem is to make sure that the answers are correct 100% of the time

Believe me. There are probably thousands of scientists across the planet working on it. Stem cells have the potential to change medicine, but if it was easy, we would know. Science takes far more failed attempts to progress than successfully ones.

I'm pretty sure it has started.

And I have no idea what to do. Economic and political chaos, not sure if when I can retire. Going through the motions at work. And I can not predict anything about the future.