Headquarters are still in London, and they are registered as a British LTD.

Actually, the .gov.uk website design principles are really highly regarded.

I can't think of a good reason why not, tbh.

Like a vacuum cleaner?

Oh, for sure. We're going to see job losses in every sector

I also hope I'm wrong. A task != any task though. The level of dexterity and movement required is difficult. I'm thinking more from a hardware than a software perspective.

Depends *which* blue-collar jobs. I can see a lot of factory work continuing to be automated, but things like plumbing, electrical installations, tiling etc require a lot of dexterity and the ability to work in awkward spaces. I don't think they are unsolvable problems by any stretch, but I could see it taking up to a decade.

I agree with this, which is a real shame. I'll read it anyway, I've been waiting for it for more than 15 years.

He HAS definitely finished it though - Neil De Grasse Tyson has read it (kurzweil was on his podcast around Xmas, and they talk about it)

Don't see why not - it's finished

The book is already written. I have a pre-order for a June release

Eliezer can fuck off. He's gone right off the deep end now.

Exactly this. 10x the ability of GPT-4 may not be AGI, but to anyone but the most astute observer there will be no practical difference.

You don't need a model, you just need 'someone'. Or a dummy.

Seems super cheap to me tbf - no problem with paying for stuff like this.

Seems like there's a very generous free tier, then super cheap after that.

Agreed. You never rely on one tech, same as the Internet hasn't

Yeah, the same thing happened with that internet thing that everyone was banging on about in the late 90s. I wonder what happened to that...

Username checks out

Took a dark turn at the end (pointlessly) but the rest isn't far off the mark.

It's a homeopathic soup

And for 92.7% of all the people who ever lived, that's what happened.

Well no, it doesn't work like that. There may be hundreds of trillions of humans born in the future, in which case you could say isn't it more likely you would be born then. You were born when you were born, there is no special significance to the time - it just had to happen at some point to be able to have this conversation.

The same chance as being born at any other time in history

Voice generation is already way more impressive than I thought it would be. Check out Apple's AI-read audiobooks

Do you want some toast?