I am truly both entertained and terrified... let me explain

Submitted by Otherwise-Ad5053 t3_11b48vu in singularity

As things are right now GPT can accomplish a lot, but it has limitations right?

Responses can have errors, artifacts and can be sometimes too unpredictable for fool proof fully automated written, right?

Well that is what I thought... Until I tried to build a prototype of a tool that automates the building of a site and editing of it via prompting.

Because of all those limitations it should have been a lost cause. The generated sites should have looked ugly. Editing would have been all over the place.

But guess what... As long as you find ways to work through limitations, you can get a tin can with a computer with the compute of a calculator to land on the moon.

I think we are much closer to the singularity than we think.

PS: I'm not talking about pre generated templates with content filled in by GPT. Proper hierarchical component building and editing. Plus training off existing sites on the web.

If I can do this now, then give it 6-12 months and everyone can.

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HeinrichTheWolf_17 t1_j9wfcs9 wrote

Regardless, I think we’re on the precipice of life changing forever. We might see the abolishment of poverty, mortality/death and any other kinds of suffering in the next couple years.

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DungeonsAndDradis t1_j9wk0vv wrote

We only have two roads ahead: extinction or immortality. We're about to fall face-first off a cliff and we don't even know it.

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HeinrichTheWolf_17 t1_j9wkr59 wrote

People have been afraid of change since we starting carving sticks and painting stick figures on walls. It’s good to be cautious, but history has proven time and time again that the fear of change is unwarranted. Evolution is necessary for our advancement, both as a species physically, and as a consciousness.

I’m excited, personally.

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CryptogenicallyFroze t1_j9xbihl wrote

Carving a stick isn’t the same a creating a god.

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ronton t1_ja0e88w wrote

Lol yeah, the number of upvotes on that unbelievably naive comment tells you a lot about this sub lol.

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Glad_Laugh_5656 t1_jabqjed wrote

>We might see the abolishment of...mortality/death ...in the next couple years.

And people on this sub wonder why everyone else thinks this sub is bonkers.

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HeinrichTheWolf_17 t1_jac3ftk wrote

It’s not my fault people can’t process exponentials.

AGI no later than 2025.

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firechaser9983 t1_j9xpf5d wrote

not happening for the commons we likely get exterminated via smart drone swarm munitions or forced into internment camps the rich fucking hate us were nothing but dirt to thrm

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Eleganos t1_j9y1r3s wrote

The rich aren't a genocidal hivemind.

I love dunking on them as much as the next person, but all these doomsayings about the rich murdering everyone for the lolz misses one detail: If they got rid of the poor, and only they are left, that makes them all the new shades of poor and middle class, with maybe a literal handful getting to remain as kings and queen's of shot mountain.

As for putting the Normals into interment camps...yeah...like that would go over well for any but the most psychopathic of the tippy top of them. People like Musk and Zuckerberg are absolute dicks but I HIGHLY doubt they would think putting most of the human race into concentration camps for nothing more than the Lolz would be a remotely sound idea.

The rich are monsterous for their assholish thoughlessness and lack of use of their powers to change the world for the better. Not because they're literally itching to execute a supervillain plot to eradicate most of the world.

It's a miss-read of their character more than anything else. The way I'd frame it is that a schoolyard bully could be the absolute worst piece of shit you've ever met, but when that same schoolyard bully turns 18 and becomes an adult they arent going to start robbing banks, mug people in alleyways, or commit random acts of murder for the fun of it.

Rich people by and large have a bully mindset. Bullies need people weaker than them to function. Bullies need rules and systems they can work in to torment people while shielding themselves. And while certainly some of them would be down for wholesale murder, perhaps even a significant portion of them, I HIGHLY doubt the Koch Brothers or Bill Gates or the Walmarts would actively seek the deaths of normal people for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

If you're going to be worried, worry about the far more likely possibility of rich AND religious psychopaths (the Saudis for example) deciding to Kickstart the literal apocalypse because they think programing a murder swarm to kill all non-muslimsq would make them best friends with God or whatever the fuck. That's something that's way more likely I'd say.

Anyways, all in all, it's a moot point because at the rate of current progress well be getting AGI relatively soon, meanwhile the best robotics tech is still laboratory tier and nanotechnology ot self replicating stuff is still all but pure sci-fi. Even if the rich did want to do that, the means they'd need to do so, I'd reckon, are still further away than the solutions the common human is hoping for. And if the rich tried to keep it to themselves, then maybe they'll finally understand how big of a number 8,000,000,000 really is, and just how outnumbered they really are.

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firechaser9983 t1_j9zyxyp wrote

tbh the evangelicals moromons and muslim elites scare me the most as they sll actively want dooms day

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hunterseeker1 t1_j9xv3ht wrote

💯 this. Think about it, we’re still in the early days of dumb A.I. - the dumbest it will ever be is right now - and look at how people are going absolutely ape shit over what it can do. In five years things are going to be weird AF. In a decade the world is going to be a very different place.

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No_Ninja3309_NoNoYes t1_j9xqanz wrote

You can't predict a pandemic. And you can't predict the singularity. Even if you could, there is no way to prepare. The AI models are growing rn. But there is no guarantee that they will continue growing. Quite the opposite actually. Everything has a limit, but it will take time to reach it.

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kiyotaka-6 t1_j9vygku wrote

Once it breaks the logical point of redirecting it's creativity to itself to further improve itself, it will exponentially improve. that would be when it becomes dangerous imo

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norby2 t1_j9znhw0 wrote

I just realized I get a little worried when I see so much excitement around something. I guess I’m so used to the news hyping stuff and then nothings happens.

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