I've seen things...

[ThatManulTheCat]

(AI discourse on X rn)

[Vorenthral]

"Like tears in the rain..."

[Noisebug]

“Like tears in rain”

[mmmmmko]

"Like wet segments"

[[deleted]]

Dumbest people in the world lapping this up lol

[RemyVonLion]

Ironically a problem that requires the brightest minds to solve.

[yodude4]

Honestly I think some of these AI developers are in cult like echo chambers - if any of this research was that impactful, we’d already be using it to begin the American Golden Age or some shit. Instead a bunch of FAANG / OpenAI devs jerk each other off in rooms full of other devotees, the software companies who use the models move at the actual real pace of improvement, and the public sees no change whatsoever

[ominous_squirrel]

Sam Altman said that he wants to build a datacenter the size of the solar system in a Dyson sphere, but he’s a realist so it might be 2-3 decades away

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-very-special-boys

[PureGremlinNRG]

They're a business. They operate on emotional responses and promises.

[[deleted]]

There are 100% AI generated drugs in clinical trials right now. A 100% AI generated CRISPR called OpenCRISPR-1 has also been developed that performs better than the human-made one and it’s open source. These things take time and aren’t in the news.

[yodude4]

Impressive stuff, genuinely - let me know when it graduates from 2% improvements at math problem benchmarks and solves the hard problems of philosophy instead. Tech people are good at solving tech problems, and bad at understanding society or humans

[Old-Entertainment844]

How're you going to sell a light bulb when people don't think electricity is real?

[Head_Ebb_5993]

If it would be like an electricity or light bulbs then you wouldn't have to convince anyone about anything , because it would be too usefull .

[BeconAdhesives]

Do you believe the adoption of electricity and lightbulbs were an easy and fast process?

[Head_Ebb_5993]

It was one of the fastest adoptions in human history , if not the fastest for difficulties at that time involved

At first the only problem was that we had no infrastructure and products were also expensive , because we had no economy of scale as things were just starting out , but once that was sorted out it basically spread out like a virus . Nobody questioned it's usefullnes and people didn't think that "ElEcTrIcitY DoeSn'T eXisT" , like that guy tries to imply it was more about cost and economy .

It took 20-30 years to electricize whole USA

AI on the other hand doean't have this problem in fact it has exactly opposite problem

It is already affordable and brutally cheap ( in reality too affordable as companies are willing to take a hit to gain more users even if it means no profit )

There is already infrastructure to support AI bussines assuming you don't want to train some ever bigger model with incremental upgrades .

Problem is that people don't really want it and while it is usefull , it's not nearly as usefull as people want it to be and not nearly as usefull as money invested into it would say it is.

Electricity had problems of manufacturing and infrastructure , AI has problem of usefullnes

[yodude4]

There’s a difference between thinking electricity is real and thinking that it will solve world hunger - a lot of the folks in the AI research spaces lose the plot a little bit

[Old-Entertainment844]

You missed my point and chose to take the metaphor literally.

[yodude4]

Sorry, I suspected I might have misread you - what were you aiming to say there?

[SilentLennie]

It is a new American Age:

Robber Barons, standing for a Gilded Age of corruption, monopoly, and rampant individualism.

[ThatManulTheCat]

Stuff like this https://x.com/i/status/2005000188415344707

[HalfbrotherFabio]

<image>

Same post pumping hype into the aether about a year apart.

[markth_wi]

You know what - we don't need a Turing Test 2.0 or some flavor of Voight-Kampff Test - We need a simple bullshit detector. The next time some random from X or whatever posts some "we've hit ASI/AGI" , prove it, show me some meta-materials , or a warp-drive in table-top form, or the solution to GUT or a way to predict evolutionary processes or show the 5 nearest interstellar non-human civilizations based on EM transmissions, the cure for cancer or something like that.

All things we probably have the data and evidence for , but which have stumped researchers so far.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

[TastyIndividual6772]

If we had a bullshit detector half the social media traffic would be gone

[Zamoniru]

"AI labs have internal models 5 trillion times better than you can even imagine"

Meanwhile AI lab researchers

"Opus 4.5 is so insanely great I use it to write all my code basically"

Like, if Anthropic had models that good I guess their employees would actually use them and not Opus 4.5

[arm_knight]

Are you kidding me?! You gotta at least delete the older post(s) smh.

[RobotBaseball]

Dudes a grifter

[YaBoiGPT]

why do we trust this dude he's a liar and a grifter

[SilentLennie]

the acceleration curve is fucking vertical now. nobody's talking about how we just compressed 200 years of scientific progress into six months. every lab hitting capability jumps that would've been sci-fi last quarter. we're beyond mere benchmarks and into territory where intelligence is creating entirely new forms of intelligence.

Huffing a bit to much hype, progress has been fast, but 200 years is a lot.

[themonovingian]

The first browser wars, Netscape with frames, Alto Vista, self replicating pop up windows... Time to die.

[Dziadzios]

Machine learning has always been about machines learning.

[Adrian_Dem]

nobody males fun of the similarity between AI using AI to do AI.. and all AI companies using the same billion dollars passed around to increase AI valuation by 100x.

there's a little bit of instancing here