Are we going to witness the next Manhattan Project (AI)?

Maurice Maine

Maurice Maine

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I know most of KF isn't convinced of this but AI is a big fucking deal. It's just been used wrong. That's not the topic at hand though... what I do know is this:

- OpenAI has been in talks with the Pentagon
- They have created some sort of algorithm known as Q*, function unknown
- There's been a sharp decrease in published AI research

THEREFORE I CONCLUDE

Glowniggers are working with AI Labs to rush out the ultimate weapon... Advanced General Intelligence. What they're gonna do with it is anyone's guess. What do you think?
 
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Q* context for those who haven't heard of it: The real research behind the wild rumors about OpenAI’s Q* project

I've heard the rumors of secret AGI for the military. It's plausible that a change in approach could lead to something actually intelligent. Software has historically improved faster than hardware:

There are no such laws in software. But the White House advisory report cited research, including a study of progress over a 15-year span on a benchmark production-planning task. Over that time, the speed of completing the calculations improved by a factor of 43 million. Of the total, a factor of roughly 1,000 was attributable to faster processor speeds, according to the research by Martin Grotschel, a German scientist and mathematician. Yet a factor of 43,000 was due to improvements in the efficiency of software algorithms.
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I've thought that neuromorphic hardware will be what gets us to building AGI, but maybe that's not the case.

I don't know about published research slowing. However, we should be wary of what might happen if the government gets scared of people building AGI at home:

 
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Prolly going to be used by law enforcement more than anything else. I see a lot of 'thought crimes' happening in the near future when they're combing through everything and using predictive models.
 
A-Stump said:
Prolly going to be used by law enforcement more than anything else. I see a lot of 'thought crimes' happening in the near future when they're combing through everything and using predictive models.
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If we arrested people for 'thought crimes' society would literally fall apart. Still I see the limeys doing it because y'know there's no joy to be had in that shithole.
 
Our society isn't that of the 1940's, the DOD especially.
If OpenAI is working on some sooper-sekrit project for the Pentagon it's most likely a skunkworks thing designed to bilk the taxpayer, as opposed to LLMs/Neural Networks suddenly hurdling over every existing barrier to create some kind of hypercompetent general AI.
 
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Maurice Maine said:
If we arrested people for 'thought crimes' society would literally fall apart. Still I see the limeys doing it because y'know there's no joy to be had in that shithole.
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Exactly. Everyone gets intrusive thoughts and seldom act out on them. How would they distinguish this from someone with a fucked-up pathology? Would they actually pull a Minority Report and arrest people before a supposed crime was committed? I don’t understand how this would work without screwing over a majority of society.
 
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I can't wait for CEOs to be replaced by AI.
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Why? It will just be the same group of people who control the profits that AI generates for them.

What's going to be interesting is all the low-level office workers who will get replaced by AI. Living in cities, no practical skills, and suddenly useless...

Cherry Eyed Hamster said:
I don’t understand how this would work without screwing over a majority of society.
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People who are obsolete can just be tossed into the trash.
 
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