So you’re telling me if I stop breathing I’ll never get older? I’m in!

So… nihilism?

This is what Ilya saw…

The Report of the Committee Appointed by the Royal Society to Consider of the Best Method of Adjusting the Fixed Points of Thermometers; And of the Precautions Necessary to Be Used in Making Experiments with Those Instruments

Seems fancy and legit, I see no reason to actually read it and confirm the info.

I like this version better than “he had a fever when he measured 100 degrees” so I will choose to believe it without further research.

I hope you are correct.

As long as they don’t fuck it up in a similar fashion to seemingly every other thing they have tried for a couple decades.

It’s about as entertaining as being on a crashing plane.

They semi-recently made an entire show using the old character styles presumably to muddy the legal waters and allow them to do exactly that…so I would assume so.

And Trump keeps looking mildly Asian…

Imagine having to make up an entire series of math lectures just to cover up your search history.

And Lemmy is completely ignored/forgotten. Pretty accurate.

Oh hey, it’s the thing I do to myself every day!

This is almost certainly not happening, but it would be absolutely hilarious if that’s how the Putin regime ended.

Is language conscious?

Are atoms?

I don’t know if LLMs of a large enough size can achieve (or sufficiently emulate) consciousness, but I do know that we barely know anything about consciousness, let alone it’s limits.

The thing is, LLMs can be used for something like this, but just like if you asked a stranger to write a letter for your loved one and only gave them the vaguest amount of information about them or yourself you’re going to end up with a really generic letter.

…but to give me amount of info and detail you would need to provide it with, you would probably end up already writing 3/4 of the letter yourself which defeats the purpose of being able to completely ignore and write off those you care about!

I keep forgetting that that’s an option

Perhaps there is some line between assuming infinite growth and declaring that this technology that is not quite good enough right now will therefore never be good enough?

Blindly assuming no further technological advancements seems equally as foolish to me as assuming perpetual exponential growth. Ironically, our ability to extrapolate from limited information is a huge part of human intelligence that AI hasn’t solved yet.

GPT-2 came out a little more than 5 years ago, it answered 0% of questions accurately and couldn’t string a sentence together.

GPT-3 came out a little less than 4 years ago and was kind of a neat party trick, but I’m pretty sure answered ~0% of programming questions correctly.

GPT-4 came out a little less than 2 years ago and can answer 48% of programming questions accurately.

I’m not talking about mortality, or creativity, or good/bad for humanity, but if you don’t see a trajectory here, I don’t know what to tell you.

Thanks Gemini, I hope they take a while before enshittefying you…