davidgro

@davidgro@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also applies to technologies that don’t in fact exist but could. Those are much harder to name (besides sci-fi) since almost by definition we don’t know about most of them. Nor how many, compared to existing tech.

  I’m not actually saying it’s impossible, just saying that local maximums (as described by the other users here) are a thing and it’s possible to be trapped for a very long time by them. Potentially forever, but you’re right that odds of breaking out do increase over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s true that I can’t know for sure that they won’t lead to AGI (or like you say give clues) - however it’s definitely a scenario I can imagine, and that’s what I was responding to: The idea that incremental improvements Must lead to a given goal. I don’t think that’s the case. Here in particular I think it’s not only possible that it won’t, it’s even somewhat likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this scenario reaching the goal would require an entirely different base technology, and incremental improvements to what we have now do not eventually lead to AGI.

  Kinda like incremental improvements to cars or even trains won’t eventually get us to Mars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can imagine it really easily for the foreseeable future, all that would need to happen is for the big corporations and well funded researchers to stick to optimizing LLMs.

  Yeah that’s not the rest of human history (unless the rest of it isn’t very much) but enough to make concerns about AGI into someone else’s problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long-running tech forum DSL Reports goes offline⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, I haven’t thought about that place in ages… Naturally most others who knew about it haven’t either and that’s why it’s gone I’m sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda says the Acura RSX will be the first original EV with the Asimo operating system⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No description at all of the OS itself.
  What kernel? Can the user interface do Android Auto? Will it have 3rd party apps?

  If it’s going in the headline I think at least some details would be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit communities will require permission while going private or switching to NSFW⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer is simple: Even a single popular subreddit has more users and content than all Lemmy instances combined.

  That ‘mass migration’ a year ago made Lemmy viable as a social network, but barely affected Reddit at all in terms of numbers, and numbers are all they care about.

  I’m still here on Lemmy, but to the Vast majority of Reddit users, nothing has changed (at least not enough to leave the place where all their communities are)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And require open sourcing the tools to sign and flash it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WaveCore blasts gigabit-speed signals through 12-inch-thick concrete⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless it’s vaporwavecore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peloton adds $95 activation fee for used equipment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I certainly wouldn’t want to buy something like that which is guaranteed to be hard to sell later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, elsewhere on my front page:

  github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

  Yeah, this is going to be a disaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Astroturfers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appliances with an off light.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a monitor that does that (but in white). It’s in my bedroom. I had to use electrical tape like another commenter here mentioned - I left a tiny hole in the tape so I can see a faint light up close, but it’s not making the room blink at night now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I find Suzie Rose's "Don't Rush" (not the remix)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad you found someone with the answer. I once tried to find “The Casper Slide Part 1” and failed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have no access to a home printer, will a library or FedExOffice or UPS Store let me print via Bluetooth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  See if there’s a way to “print” to a PDF file