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0 pointsnobodyandproud1y ago0 comments

This is great insight. Science fiction does a great job inspiring technology research, but we forget that real-world accomplishments can be much humbler and still astonishing all the same.

I'm a bit tired of the hype surrounding LLMs, but all the same for very mundane and humbler tasks that require some intelligence modern LLMs manage to surprise me on a daily basis.

But it rarely accomplishes more than what a small collection of humans with some level of expertise can achieve, when asked.

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Nevermark1y ago

Or accomplishments can genuinely be astounding.

Surely, the LLM models we have today are astounding by any measure, relative to just a few years ago.

But pronouncements of how this will lead to utopia, without introducing a major revision of economic arrangements, are completely, and surely intentionally/conveniently (Sam isn't an idiot) misleading.

Is OpenAI creating a class of stock so everyone can share in their gains? If not, then AGI owned by OpenAI will make OpenAI shareholders rich, very much to the degree its AGI eliminates human jobs for itself and other corporations.

How does that, as an economic situation, result in the general population being able to do anything beyond be a customer, assuming they can still make money in some way not taken over by AGI?

Utopia needs an actual plan. Not a concept of a plan.

The latter just keeps people snowed and calm before an historic level rug pull.

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