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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 17 points 3 days ago

If there’s a singularity here, it’s that OpenAI is a black hole that all the money falls into. And you’ll never see it again.

inspired quote

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

All y’all still don’t get it: the singularity is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.

[–] petealexharris@mastodon.scot 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@dgerard
Sam Altman is in the singularity, in that he is now convinced LLMs are smarter than him, he doesn't understand the tech or how it is evolving, and he doesn't know what's going to happen next.

The rest of us are not in his exact predicament. I was going to say we're fine, but nah.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Sam Altman is in the singularity, in that he is now convinced LLMs are smarter than him

I'm reminded of a quote that used to always come up when I was studying cryptography. Bruce Schneier would always remind people that it's easy to design an encryption scheme that you can't break. But it's hard to design an encryption scheme that nobody else can break, either.

It is a good reminder that there needs to be a degree of intellectual humility by those who want to design big systems that affect the whole world.

[–] BioMan@awful.systems 12 points 4 days ago

I truly cannot tell which of them are in religious psychosis and which of them are shameless liars

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Day 3 after the singularity. Rate of change still the same, no warnings about light cones, and openAI still didnt make trillions of dollars.

Worst. Singularity. Ever.

[–] lurker@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Getting a T-Shirt that says “I entered the Singularity and all I got was a plagiarism machine, a higher cost of living and this stupid T-Shirt”

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago

Clearly the shirt also needs a big typo.

[–] sabik@rants.au 5 points 3 days ago

@Soyweiser @dgerard
The existence of light cones implies the existence of full-cream cones

[–] Illuminatus@mstdn.social 3 points 3 days ago

@Soyweiser @dgerard You can't get all of the shiny cyberpunk over-the-top special effects when you syphoned the budget into the stockholders' debauchery fund.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yea.... OK can it still count the R's in strawberry? Or Xs in October? Or have a timer for a mile run?

This technology is a joke

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The seahorse emoji remains my favorite for showing how LLMs are completely incapable of handling obviously false information in their training data.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

AI Overview special cased it, booooo

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Did they remember to cover the other ones mentioned at 4:20 in the video (igloo, starfish, traffic cone, flip-flops, Eiffel tower, cotton candy, fork)?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The true Tech Singularity foretold by prophecy is that all Tech Bro Billionaires will become hopelessly single.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

the techbro singularity will be the AI bubble popping.