Futurology

1933 readers

273 users here now

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

The only plausible way for investors to get their money back on OpenAI is as if, as the company has been betting, OpenAI will soon develop AI systems that can do most work humans can do on a computer. (www.vox.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] givesomefucks 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They can't though...

If you have a super basic task you can automate with a "bot" but it's not real AI and have been around forever

A general I telligence that can handle variation and take correct action from just a prompt is long off.

We won't get real AI till quantum computing has another couple decades under its belt. Then it'll at least be possible

[–] TropicalDingdong 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean. People said the exact same thing about procedural text generation before the release of their first large transformers models. So the idea that we can or can't say what will happen or what is possible seems misguided.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I get what you are saying, yet I'm still waiting for the flying car to make it into mainstream. By which I mean to say that there are limits to what is possible, even though we might not know exactly where they are with the current generation of tech.

[–] shalafi -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I used AI to write a script that saved tons of man hours. Could it have been written without AI? Of course! But I suck at coding and get AI help that saved me hours, maybe days, of figuring it out.

Y'all are vastly underestimating how much labor can be skipped with AI.

Sorry! Sorry! This is lemmy where everyone is smarter than the guys throwing around billions of dollars. Because they're idiots and we're not!

[–] givesomefucks 1 points 3 days ago

where everyone is smarter than the guys throwing around billions of dollars.

Then the investor class?

Yeah.

Why, do you think Musk, Bezos, and Bill Gates are geniuses?

They're ruthless businessmesn.