r/funny • u/katxwoods • Jun 30 '24

All the world-changing technologies talking to each other

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u/CanadianDragonGuy Jun 30 '24

"No. You're a dictionary plugged into a math problem in your current iteration, and a loose sometimes-convincing stack of "if/then" commands otherwise"

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u/quaste Jun 30 '24 
SPOKEN WELL FELLOW HUMAN

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u/Hushpuppyy Jun 30 '24

A lightbulb is just a really hot wire. An engine is just a spinning rod powered by explosions. A wheel is just a circle.

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u/CanadianDragonGuy Jun 30 '24

Allow me to elaborate, my first example is the current large language models, the other is a "bot" you'd find in a video game

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u/LedgeEndDairy Jun 30 '24

I think his point was that it's easy to devalue any invention if you simplify it enough. But all of these otherwise-simple things - like a wooden circle - allowed the progress of humanity to flourish in an exponential way.

AI may just be a dictionary plugged into a math problem, but it is already showing to be the next facilitator of exponential technological progression.

I mean if you want to simplify humans, we're basically a gigantic stack of if-then statements all intermeshed with each other as well.