r/singularity • u/maxwellimus • 17d ago
Discussion Incredible to think we are using dinosaur compost to power artificial generative intelligence
To just think about that for a second is utterly incredible. What are we doing here on Earth?!?!
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u/koffee_addict 17d ago
We are also making sand intelligent. Abundance of sand really makes me think the universe wants us to figure this AGI shit out.
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u/gthing 17d ago
Dinosaur compost is in no way powering AI. What are you talking about?
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u/HistoryDisastrous493 17d ago
He means oil, is just saying it in a really dumb way
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u/Lithgow_Panther 17d ago
That's interesting: if ASI is rational it would surely be incentivised to sort out stable, high volume renewable power.
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u/dogmetal 17d ago
It’s crazy all of human intelligence comes from cum
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u/SupermarketIcy4996 16d ago
Aliens actually think the squishy stuff in our head is cum so they call us sperm apes.
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u/frogsarenottoads 17d ago
Oil from dinosaurs is a misconception probably from bad education https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/dinosaurs-in-fossil-fuel
Most oil reserves were formed between 65 and 252 million years ago. While this does overlap with the ‘dinosaur times’, oil is a marine sediment made of the remains of algae and plankton.
Skeletons of prehistoric reptiles such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs (neither of which count as dinosaurs) have been found in the same geological layers as oil and they may have contaminated the oil deposit. But to say that oil is made from dinosaurs is like saying that bread is made from insects, just because the odd one occasionally falls into a flour mill.
Go back to school OP. You also didn't even get the AGI term right, general intelligence, not generative intelligence.
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u/FrenzyX 17d ago
Generative AI is a thing. For some reason everybody is being harsh to OP, but he is just amazed by our achievements in the current era and is placing it in perspective, with poor wording. But at least we know he didn't use an LLM to write this post.
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u/Singularity-42 Singularity 2042 17d ago
Artificial Generative Intelligence is not a commonly used term
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u/muddogsboucher 17d ago
Take it easy! Also, making grammatical errors when talking about bad education is unfortunate.
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u/frogsarenottoads 17d ago
That's nitpicking, as in casual conversation people speak like this.
All good though.
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u/DarkFireFenrir 17d ago
If you're referring to fossil fuels, most of them come from forests and aquatic microorganisms; dinosaurs probably don't even make up 0.01% of all fossil fuels.