i found something:

Page visits on Bing have risen 15.8% since Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) unveiled its artificial intelligence-powered version on Feb. 7, compared with a near 1% decline for the Alphabet Inc-owned search engine, data till March 20 showed. https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-tech-gives-microsofts-bing-boost-search-battle-with-google-2023-03-22/

You're not understanding my point. People will be a lot LESS desperate for jobs in this world.

Agreed. Scale of the hardware (wetware?) is necessary but not sufficient. Next we have to write the software. The last effort took 100’s of millions of years. We have a working model and better management now though, so hopefully we can make quicker progress.

Probably hard to get those numbers. But OpenAI is used for creative work mostly now, not search. Yet - all might change once there will be plugins in place, and that is just a beginning…

The Brain of Theseus?

That is a good point. Realistic.

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Dumb searches are way more efficient though. How much more would ChatGPT-4 cost to run at the same scale as Google?

It will not be its death. If google doesn't keep up with the pace, it will die. Fact checking is still a problem with current AI.

We now have a plague, much more income inequality, less privacy, unstoppable global warming, and one of the two major US political parties has become openly fascist with the help of constant propaganda. Yes, we have more toys, but the quality of life for the majority has gone down.

This. I tried it for the first time this week and it was pretty disappointing. Insane mistakes in the answers. But it’s promising tech. Still a few years before it’s gives some really trustworthy answers.

I think we do need a rigorous definition. Otherwise we’re stuck in a loop where the meaning of intelligence is forever updated to mean whatever it is that humans can do that software can’t. The God of the gaps applied to intelligence.

What test can we perform on it that would convince everyone that this thing is truly intelligent? Throw a coding challenge at most people and they’ll fail, so that can’t be the metric. We could ask it if it’s afraid of dying. Well that’s already been done - the larger the model size the more likely it is to report that it has a preference to not be shut down (without the guardrails put on after the fact).

All that to say that I disagree with the idea that it’s “just” doing anything. We don’t know precisely what it’s doing (from the neural network perspective) and we don’t know precisely what the human brain is doing, so we shouldn’t be quick to dismiss the possibility that what often seems to be evidence of true intelligence actually is a form of true intelligence.

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The cost of inference, in GPU and thus electric power, of these LLM is just too high. A 8.5 billion searches a day, replacing google search with GPT4 would consume an estimated 7 billion watt hours. A day. Just for the power consumed by the GPUs.

You would need over 638 hoover dams just to power that.

For what reason in particular? Just because those people were conditioned that deliberately staying in a simulation would be bad for them or a weakness of character?

Can we define consciousness?

Alternatively, did you actually exist halt a second ago, or what existed was something else which memories were merged with your current sensorial input to become "you"?

It's the same old debate of questioning if it is possible to bath in the same river twice. What is the point of expecting completely non-destructive conversion from neurons to processors when the conversion from 1 second ago neurons to current neurons actually is destructive?

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Every sub, the more mainstream it gets, eventually turns into /r/antiwork

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The fact that you ask me this makes me suspect that maybe you aren’t conscious.

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“Eh, I don’t care, I have nothing to hide.”

> The attempted implementation of mind jannies will be the breaking point for society where heads start rolling

I highly doubt it