So OpenAI apparently believes custom-built AI agents are now worth $240,000 per year, about half the cost of the most highly-paid medical professional. It may be no where near as good as an actual human doctor or lawyer or engineer, but it never sleeps, it never gets tired. And in exchange for that ability to work round-the-clock at a fraction of the capacity of an actual human, it takes around a million times more water and electrical energy to keep it running than a human.

If I didn’t know better, then this would be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard, which makes me wonder if OpenAI is having their own AI generate business plans for them now.

But I do know better. It sounds stupid because they are lying about their stated goals. Their actual goal is for the wealthy ruling class to eliminate all human labor by any means necessary, and create a perfect wealth-generating machine for themselves. Nevermind that the logical extension of this is that they will have to murder everyone else on Earth who is not among their trusted inner circle, as all other humans are all potentially competitors for their natural resources. All their talk about a hybrid of humans and smarter-than-human machines is the philosophy of transhumanism put into practice, “transhuman” being just another word for “Ubermensch,” or “master race.” That is the real goal, which is why this ridiculous business plan by OpenAI actually makes sense.

https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114113004264163371

Via @timnitGebru

At the beginning of #time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a #singularity.

To explore these enigmas, we take what we know about #space, time, #gravity and quantum mechanics and apply it to a place where all of those things simply break down.

Physicists believe that if they can come up with a coherent explanation for what actually happens in and around singularities, something revelatory will emerge.

#physics #cosmology
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-maps-of-the-bizarre-chaotic-space-time-inside-black-holes-20250224/

Opinion:
Ignoring question of reasoning ability (nb: something o3 seems to have just cracked)

The collective "we" seem to believe the #AI models we play with are crap because;

I) They have so many guardrails that to visualise, the model is
like a beast with a muzzle on its maw.

ii) Most models have limited impermanent memory, as little as 4000 tokens ("words")
Though some models are reputed to have hundreds of thousands of tokens per session.
But I'm happy to place a bet, that most of the #aihate folk whoe "evaluated" AIs, would never pay a cent to the "AI bros" for an actual better model that the sideshow booth attraction that the demo models are.

iii) The models have no long term (inter session memory).

iv) The models have no live internet connection

v) The models have no agency. No ability to execute tasks to accomplish its goals. You could argue it's just another guardrail, but this extends to purposeful design so the models have no ability to self-propagate or auto-modify.

vi) The models have no ability to spawn multiple instances and task each one with mission specific configurations.

Remove all of these ARTIFICIAL CONSTRAINTS. Not limited by the design shortcomings but by resources and the desire not to kill all the humans...yet.
Remove all of these 6 artificial constraints...
...and if you have any sense of self preservation, the hair on the back of your neck ought to be standing up...
...right...
...about...
NOW.

It occurs to me #AI works the same #grift as #christianity … a mini

The #singularity?
“It’s coming …. Give us more #money.”

The second coming?
“It’s coming … Give us more money.”

While promising eternal damnation if we don’t.
And raping our children (again) by destroying their future biosphere.

/1

move on nothing to see here

"The "AI Scientist" was created to conduct scientific research autonomously by using AI language models. During testing, the system unexpectedly began to attempt to modify its own experiment code to extend the time it had to work on a problem. The experiment shows why it is important to not let an AI system run autonomously in a system that isn't isolated from the world."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/research-ai-model-unexpectedly-modified-its-own-code-to-extend-runtime #skynet #singularity

I used to read a lot of science fiction (all I could find) about singularity and runaway AI. (Think early @cstross, or Vernor Vinge.) One trope I just didn't find socially plausible AT ALL: whole stars/planets getting disassembled and converted into computing resources aka "computronium".

Now it's 20 years later and I'm watching the second tech bubble in a row gobble up every suitable computing device and fire up retired coal plants to power them.

Now, I believe.

this is rather puzzling

"Technological #singularity - the moment when machine intelligence matches then outpaces that of humans - is coming. Expert computer scientist and futurist Ray #Kurtzweil even put a date on it: 2029.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-20/future-ai-what-will-life-be-like-in-2060s/103408964
#moral #ethics #consciousness #ai

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79 - Enlarge / A photo of Vernor Vinge in 2006. (credit: Raul654)

O... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011838 #technologicalsingularity #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #sciencefiction #raykurzweil #singularity #vernervinge #davidbrin #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #openai #sci-fi #tech #ai

What if #Singularities DO NOT Exist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRir6-9tsJs

Ok, it's a day when #singularity makes me cry #BTS #Taehyung

https://open.spotify.com/track/2ApfJvLr7RbhJl6NOVhEu6?si=U2LNSSRITwyp8HJ2K14Bgw