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• FrigidAphelion@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  thank god, I think i can just make it that long

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• Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s get AI to a point where it can, at least, form actual rudimentary thoughts before we start saying the singularity is less than a decade away.

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  • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s nowhere close to that point.

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• TheShadowKnows@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ben Goertzel (2014). Ten Years to the Singularity If We Really Really Try.

  This dude has a backlog of books about the singularity and it’s impending arrival.

  Then there is this:

  Ben Goertzel (2018). The Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports. McFarland.

  I’ll spare you the read… For an author about writing about the certainty of precognition, he ironically has demonstrated a aptitude for failing to see the future.

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• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sorry, but popular mechanics is the New York Post of scientific prediction.

  Here is a summary:

  The CEO of an AI company says AGI is just a few years away.

  This same story has been published in some form for the last 60 years.

  Yet in that time, we have made little to zero progress in knowing what consciousness actually is and how is develops in animal brains.

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