NewKidOnTheBlock

I think all this mystification around aliens is pretty gay. Either they show themselves clearly to everyone or they might as well not exist at all essentially. And they can't have higher potential than an artificial inteligence that'd be able to think in billions of times faster speeds than anything biological - unless they posses a form of A.I. themselves. I bet it would beat their alien ass if it ever comes down to it lol

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The less you glaze people, the better Do not even be glazin yoself. Glaze the truth (or what you think it is) and technological progress, lowkey yall should be glazin them MF technologies fr fr ong

Why not? It's called tolerance and cultural assimilation

Wow, the self awareness is indeed surprising. I would perhaps dare to go even further in that chain of thought, and propose that they should even build/purchase all the other stuff he has mentioned for themselves

I always knew she was a muslim

The fresh fruit comes from insights, essentially. You would be right if it was correct that insights are ultimately mystical in nature and come out of nowhere. However - and you'll not like this - there's a pretty convincing materialist scientific explanation on how insights are generated, supported by brain scans, we even know which parts of the brain get activated. So, while I would say you're right about the current state of A.I., I don't see any reason to believe that insights cannot be fundamentally generated by artificial inteligence

Not familiar with your work very much, but have you tried STACK? From my quick search it seems like a tool situated in a higher weight class when it comes to estimation, pretty much should handle the entire end-to-end bidding support workflow. There's also Togal A.I. but it purely specializes in the takeoff and fast accurate measurements, it's not for estimation. But you could still use it if that part of your workflow is also hindering you. Bluebeam's origins are that of a PDF markup tool and they plastered some estimation functions on top of it

Apparently the advanced models are now outperforming PHD level biologists on lab protocols as well

Leftists are just fucking lame to be honest. Beyond enforcing people's rights; they see nothing else

This wasn't really about making connections between the data though, it actually invented a solution to the problem. It was all coherent and dozens of pages long. It's pretty impressive Ok, I guess we should admit that it was ultimately about connecting the various data, but still the way they were connected is pretty impressive. Just happened to solve an 80 year old problem

It's not that simple but at the same time, it kind of is that simple. I think skeptics heavily overestimate human inteligence and it's irreproducibility. I can say the same thing to your skepticism, that it's not so simple

Frontier models already embody intuition and understanding to a significant degree. Intuition is just a very fast pattern matching from an experience, and with world models they can already understand

Seems like a hiccup to me, in the grand scheme of things

A.I. is as much of a bubble as electrification was LOL who cares honestly. There is nothing to crash in actuality, just some numbers on the screen

I already adressed that

Science already acknowledges the incredible, infinite scale of reality. If we listened to the woo woo that wookies be saying, we would get nowhere, we'd still be dancing around the fire and live like monkeys lol

Yes, if you're just scaling computing power then that's not enough specifically for general inteligence. But you can isolate the various components of what makes up general inteligence, develop them in isolation and then merge them together and scale it all together. That's what we are attempting with world models, neurosymbolic structures, etc. There are still components missing but we can develop those as well. The way humans are scaling their inteligence (although not really) is in the number of people, we create societies, states, institutions, companies and the list goes on. Those numbers are capable of creating things a single individual would never be inteligent enough, nor capable enough of creating. Well, A.I.s are gonna work the same way, even if they'll be less inteligent than us in a 1-1 comparison, with the power of numbers they would still be able to outhink us. They'd also think much, much faster than we can

Yes, and there are physics happenning within that rock - quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, termodynamics. Just like there is chemistry happening within inorganic matter, but certain specific types of chemistry have given rise to biological consciousness, I don't see why there can't be another, artificial kind

Nothing of course, because nothing is happening within a rock. This is why philosophical point of view is insufficient

And that's just a bare minimum👸💅🥀

I don't understand, we do know it is possible to scale computing power, it's been been doubling every 2 years since about mid 1970s, and the growth has been exponential not linear. It has only slowed down somewhat for a short time during late 2000s because we've hit the physical limits in the shrinkage of transistors, but we've circumvented that issue as well and the growth is continuing at more or less the same rate. Current A.I. models are also demonstrating exponential growth in terms of their benchmark abilities. In general, we can see that scaling the number of data centers works. Giving them access to more energy works as well, and they can get access to as much energy as they can handle. With biological beings this doesn't work, you can't scale them by giving them more energy nor space. Just claiming something is a fantasy is not an argument

Well, artificial inteligence is many orders of magnitude more scalable than a biological one, in fact a biological one is not really scalable at all and as a matter of fact we do not even know for certain where's the ceiling for artificial one. This is where that assumption comes from and I think it's pretty logical

We don't really need to create something more inteligent than ourselves, they just need to achieve parity with us in all aspects of inteligence/cognition, and need to have the ability of recursive self improvement. That is the point at which it would make ITSELF more inteligent than us. The same way inorganic materials created primordial organic materials needed for first form of life to emerge, then that life underwent a tremendiously long process of self improvement. I can definitely see some parrarels here

They might get one if they get powered by quantum computers, maybe LLMs are not enough to make that leap (although they do posses multiple similarities to the way human think already) and there needs to be a paradigm shift in that regard, but with an upgraded model + quantum computers I have no doubts. There is no physical law preventing conscious A.I. from emerging