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Nostr0m t1_itvrgq6 wrote
Reply to comment by TheSingulatarian in Lots of posts here talk about how AI advancements and automation are going to inevitably replace jobs. As someone without interest or acumen in programming or IT, what sort of "future-proof" field(s) should I be looking into as a way to maintain (for lack of a better term) viability? by doctordaedalus
Interesting story, thank you for sharing. So it's basically imagining life in today's society on a typical day for a homeless/marginally housed person in a well-resourced area, if you took away the risk of violence.
There was a Reddit thread once asking people what they would want to do if they didn't have to work for money. They said things like: read books, plant a garden, study interesting things, learn practical skills like woodworking or baking, play sports, watch sports, make art of various kinds, travel, take naps, meet people in the local community, volunteer, hike outdoors, write a story, fix up an old house, play card games or board games, play musical instruments, develop an app or a game, host dinner parties, raise bees, raise other animals, take language classes, ride their bike, go swimming, etc. etc.
Why can't we do any of those things in our hypothetical post-work society? What does the AI overlord gain by purposely keeping us miserable, when it has basically infinite resources? I guess a related question is why do we allow homeless people to experience similar conditions in our own society, when we likely have the resources to improve their conditions. I guess the conventional answers (or excuses) relate to substance use, mental health conditions, cognitive disabilities, physical and emotional trauma, lack of social support, etc. (arguably a kind of victim blaming argument). But we certainly couldn't apply that reasoning to all of human society.
Nostr0m t1_isggbvd wrote
Reply to comment by Chop1n in DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later by Melodic-Work7436
Haha not intentionally, but that's interesting now you mentioned it.
Nostr0m t1_iscv4x4 wrote
Reply to comment by mcilrain in DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later by Melodic-Work7436
No, these are deterministic algorithms guaranteed to produce the right answer, so there are no errors involved. If you would like to learn more look into an intro to algorithms course, pretty interesting stuff
Nostr0m t1_isbt2ks wrote
Reply to comment by mcilrain in DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later by Melodic-Work7436
You can save multiplication operations by clever additions and subtractions. See Strassen's algorithm for an example.
Nostr0m t1_iwi88bi wrote
Reply to Introducing Galactica. A large language model for science. by Qumeric
I tried out the demo on their website. I think the idea sounds very promising, but its performance was pretty lacking. It does talk about the topic you provide and the format looks appropriate, but there are elementary factual and logical errors in the examples that I tried.