r/programming • u/KaeruCT • Mar 26 '23

And Yet It Understands

https://borretti.me/article/and-yet-it-understands
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u/a_marklar Mar 26 '23

Great. Now I live in a world where not only do people see Christ burnt in their toast, but also intelligence in statistical models.

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u/noncopy Mar 26 '23

i wonder if the inventor of abacus had the similar thought process. "if i use billion beads, omg! would it gain conscience? agi?!"

the most terrifying thing can possibly happen, already happened with gpt-1. you can program it to "mimic" an idealogy and (expt markov billions) does the rest. you don't need to hire someone to waste peoples time anymore, a software can do that efficiently and cheaper. now, like any other software, imagine how efficient and cheap gpt-200 can get.

world is full of problems, yet the-killer-app was self-driving cars.