I agree partially, but I'm sure we've barely scratched the surface on what is possible with the knowledge that we already have and has already been proven by scientists. They might come up with novel solutions that are more or less correct that don't need extensive real world testing and be able to change the world very quickly that way. There are mathematicians who's work is entirely theoretical and haven't been applied to the real world, then suddenly a use is found for their stuff 30-50 years later.

TIL there was a B programming language

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It's the tech world's way. Build products first, acquire users, and find ways to monetize it later.

Still having a human hand at 54 million years old

This sucks for super talented artists. They won't get the recognition that they once did. Everyone will automatically assume it's AI

You might want to check out a book like Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom, it could fill in a lot of the blanks for you. But its more about paths to the singularity than the singularity itself. The problem is we don't really know what is going to happen when we reach very rapid technological progress. That's why there is so much speculation and not any actual knowledge of what will happen.

Actually checked, surprisingly I didn't see anything standing out for singularity or AGI

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Following all these people should give you recommendations for others

I follow a lot of AI researchers on twitter, occasionally check out https://www.lesswrong.com, try to read some of the research papers, learn about LLMs, transformers, watch some youtube videos to get high level overviews on concepts, watch new releases for big companies like tesla and nvidia. I'm subbed to a lot of AI related subs, but I haven't seen any of extremely high quality. Trying to do the best to position myself in a way to profit off new technology as it is released and try to get to thinking about it before it is released. Also subbed to product specific subs like /r/midjourney and /r/chatGPT

Also Midjourney V4 was released November 10th, near the beginning of the uptick in those subbed here.

All previous growth looked pretty linear, this is a sharp rise compared to the steady growth previously. I wouldn't be surprised if we continue to see exponential growth over the next few years as more consumer AI products are released to the public.

The industrial revolution allowed people to do the work of many, but instead of rampant unemployment more things were produced and created more prosperity. Before then there was no such thing as a middle class. These tools eventually will create even more prosperity. Its not a zero sum game. It increases the size of the pie for everyone.

I think these will be excellent tools but they won't replace the need for people knowing how to use them properly. If anything the demand for programmers/technical people is only going to accelerate until we approach singularity.

Please elaborate.

It will be 10 years before mass unemployment, elon says 3-5 years for teslabot to be for sale to consumers, another 5-10 years after that for it to be super good.

This, buy tech stocks.

101 million seems like a lot for them with all the competition in AI generated images, dalle2, midjourney, and others. Shows how massive they expect AI generated art to be. I also hope that all the money doesn't make them like openAI and go closed source.