• violentfart@lemmy.world
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    Long ago I learned in an economics class that business is all about exploitation of underprivileged populations. From indigenous people to slaves to poor citizens to “third-world” countries.

    Corporations are running out of people to exploit globally, so the idea of infinite artificial labor is the holy grail of cost optimization.

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      and what will likely happen is when they finally develop it, suddenly that thing deserves to not be exploited.

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        Nah. I haven’t seen a convincing argument that gen AI is going to coalesce from this shit show.

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          never said it would. I’m asserting that by the time AI gets to the point where its as useful as humans, it’ll inherently be as deserving of autonomy and freedom as we are. which brings you back to being required to pay a living wage.

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            My point is, I don’t believe the current AI tech is going to get to the point where it’s as useful as humans.

            We have long since reached the point where diminishing returns make significant improvements or advancement unfeasible.

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              That’s not true. Mythos annihilated everyone’s benchmarks and now the other companies are all distilling it. They’re solving equations that people haven’t solved, and they weren’t meant to do that. Mythos apparently is designing drugs even though it wasn’t trained with that in mind at all. Anthropic launched an entire pharma wing. It looked like things had plateau’d there for a minute but it’s back to becoming more real.

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                You are really missing a lot of context here. None of this is true in the way you seem to think it is.

                You are mixing up marketing hype with reality.

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                    You are using these to solve the novel research problems no one else has solved?

                    Or you are using them to solve problems you don’t know how to solve?

                    The things you’re saying are marketing hype. Point me to the scientific journal where Claude is credited as a co-author of a research paper.

                    Ive also read these articles. I also use LLMs every day. I’m working on building closed agentic loops right now. I think I’m pretty on top of the current state of the art here.

                    The truth is much more nuanced and much less exciting than you think it is.

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                1 month ago

                This is the same old hype really.

                Yes, there are things which todays generation of AI is good at, including medical research.

                That’s not an indicator of general intelligence.

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          AGI you mean? IDK It’s arguably here. They’re senile, though. Working with a senile genius is the best way I can put it, I think. Is it “people?” IDK fuck if I know. How could we ever really know?

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                M not trying to be super rude here but the truth is, It’s arguable if you argue with people who don’t know any better. So in that sense, sure.

                When it comes to people that take these things seriously, it’s not a really a very hot topic. We’re clearly nowhere near AGI.

                Really good LLM != AGI

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                  I don’t really know what AGI means, I guess. If we’re talking about something that benchmarks as high as the average human, we’re way, way past that. If we’re talking about something that benchmarks as high as experts in all areas, we’re not there, but we’re not that far off. When connected to the internet? It’s basically there.

                  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ai-disproves-a-decades-old-mathematical-idea-the-biggest-conjecture-that-the-tech-has-played-a-role-in-yet-180989189/

                  They’re literally solving problems that humans haven’t been able to. They ARE capable of novel concepts, to whatever degree. No offense but y’all seem like your knowledge is like three years old.

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                    They’re literally solving problems that humans haven’t been able to.

                    If you actually read instead of continuing to spam bullshit you would know this isn’t true.

                    You say “haven’t been able to”. This is fucking false my dude. At best it’s solved problems humans haven’t been bothered to solve yet. The solutions already existed and it assembled them into a proof.

                    I don’t really know what AGI means

                    You don’t know what any of this means dawg. You are literally just saying shit that you heard other people say.

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                    If we’re talking about something that benchmarks as high as the average human

                    Well my calculator can solve a random nine digit number to the power of another random nine digit number faster than any human can, so I guess calculators have been AGI for decades!