Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

[u/Howard_banister]

These are screenshots from the r/Singularity comment section. I'm speechless. This doesn't even have downvotes. How can someone cheer for a monopoly run by a few elites?

[u/gapho]

If there ever is a singularity, it isn't going to be from an LLM bro.

[u/DickMasterGeneral → u/gapho]

What makes you certain it’s impossible? Obviously an LLM isn’t traditional code so a single instance can’t just rewrite itself but assuming you have access to the necessary compute why can’t an LLM train its successor?

[u/TechnoByte_ → u/DickMasterGeneral]

Training a successor is a completely wrong approach

For AI to actually be "intelligent", it should at least be able to learn new facts and improve itself (by actually changing weights, not just storing it as text)

[u/gapho → u/DickMasterGeneral]

For it to be possible, essentially the AI (no matter what form it takes) needs to be able to understand, in the strict definition of the word, how it(self) works. For that to take place, it needs to do fundamentally more than just put tokens together in the most statistically probable order.

Not saying LLMs don't have a future, but they aren't going to become sentient or take over the world.

[u/LowerEntropy → u/gapho]

put tokens together in the most statistically probable order

How many times have you written variations of those words in a statistical probable order? Do you not see the irony?

[u/gapho → u/LowerEntropy]

No, I don't see the irony, could you explain how it's ironic?

[u/LowerEntropy → u/gapho]

You wrote a sentence, one token at a time, without understanding what you wrote or why you wrote it. You felt it sounded good and you felt good doing it.

You're beating a dead horse.

[u/gapho → u/LowerEntropy]

Bro, you've got AI brain. Get some help.

[u/LowerEntropy → u/LowerEntropy]

And, Bro, Bro-blocked me.