Either I'm too tired, or the AI is better at me at getting the punchline, but I have to admit that I needed the explanation to understand it.

Man, there are some cool ST TNG episodes that are quite relevant in this fast changing AI landscape.

Not just pretty nice but absolutely necessary. Until now you could heat water with the e from panels, thus losing 30-60% of your production. Using the thermal directly means you can heat more water than a single family home can use. Stuff like this can heat water for blocks AND bring electricity.

Was just a matter of time until companies jump onto that otherwise lost energy.

> You no longer need fresh water

> desalination as part of their plant

???

Desalination turns salt water into desalinated (fresh) water, but is also energy intensive. The process in the link I shared does not require the salt water to be desalinated.

Do you think a submarine can swim?

Nope it can come up with novel jokes, just ask it for some. Most of the one's it comes up with are play on word meanings. So jokes you read as a kid.

But still they are jokes. I'll ask it to tell me a funny story next time and see how it does.

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struck me, reading that 400+ page Microsoft report on GPT-4 (skimmed lightly haha) that its actually insanely unfair and unjust how the common people won't get true access to GPT-4 or its successors.

Real AGI or not, I want to revel in the experience, but I won't be allowed to because I don't have and won't ever have access to this new thing.

"ChatGPT" is now an absolute dinosaur compared to GPT-4. The comparison is even hard to make with out much more profound GPT-4 can understand and translate things into other ideas compared to GPT-3-based ChatGPT

Eventually, yeah. But the first AGI need not be that good.

People facing stuff. Health and sport sciences are your best bet. Do NOT for the love of god do economics or philosophy.

I'm not saying that it's kept a secret, I'm saying that they don't have one.

If anything, if there were ever to be an AGI then I would think a non-corporate entity would come up with one first.

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So, why wouldn't they keep the AGI a secret?

the "soul" is just the answers to something scientist and theolgist couldn't understand a couple hundred years ago, humanity and especially theist are just slow to understand that we are just a biological machine

everything too complexe to understand have seen a simple theological answers, easy to understand and rassuring to believe, while the observation is far more cruel and nihilistic

For a Hypersonic craft hydrogen has some small advantages that don't apply to most others vehicles. First it burns exceptionally fast. This shrinks the engines. Second it has an extremely high specific heat so pound for pound you can dump a lot more heat from the frame and engine into the fuel before burning it.

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But an AGI is going to be millions of times faster than a human.

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And if you don't read the full article, you don't get the point of the article, which also said Dyson spheres are easily worthwhile if they're a meter thick with partial coverage. That's probably not a terrible approximation of a Dyson swarm.

What I've noticed is that the Chat GPT "AI" doesn't really think. It regurgitates. That's what it is designed to do. It ingests all the digital data and text that is out there and can spit it out on demand. It's a repository of knowledge not an intelligence. As such it will never be able to solve novel problems or answer hypotheticals. It will never be able to answer questions that have never been asked and written about before. So if you can answer such questions by virtue of having real intelligence your job is safe.

I think we disagree on what an AGI is. I would define an AGI as roughly human level. It doesn't need to be superhuman.

And I still think they would if they suspected someone else would beat them to it.

Why do corporate research publish papers and attend and present at scientific conferences on AI and quantum computing regularly? Why does it seem like with every innovation of one company, the other companies and startups are just one step behind?

Who exactly do you think develops AI at these companies? Business school grads? MBAs? Young coding boot-camp go-getters looking to strike gold with a killer app?

Get your head out of the conspiracy sand and read an actual piece of information by a professional on what the industry actually looks like (and, as they hire high-demand highly specialized scientists, what they get in their contracts). Then come back if you have a serious question of whether a groundbreaking discovery will be kept a secret.

[Edit: on third reading of OP's post, it's more clear what they are arguing. Thus my post here is now a message not to criticize OP (which wouldn't make sense given their post), but rather is more or less my supplementary argument of the same essential point as OP -- which is that nobody is hiding an AGI (though I don't know if OP agrees with me that at this stage no corporate R&D will hide an AGI).]

Unlike those greedy corperations. I will fuck anyone's mother for free.

if one company in the us got access to AGI, every other tech company in the country will send all of their lobbyists to DC to either get AGI outlawed or force them to sell the code to prevent a monopoly.

frankly i think once a single company figures out AGI itll only lead to dozens of other companies following shortly after. if a dozen companies have AGI i dont see how it can remain something only a select few have. at least one of those companies will realize that its quicker profit just to sell the AI to other companies, governments, or the public.

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

https://www.howglobalwarmingworks.org/

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/climateqa/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/05/natural_anthropogenic_models_narrow.png

https://www.nap.edu/resource/25733/interactive/

https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

I'd say a key difference is that it is largely unable to come up with new jokes. Only at explaining existing ones.