alt Hacker NewsI'd help build Gas City and Gas State, and Gas Country if that would mean we actually would solve the things AI promised to solve. All sickness, famine, wealth ...
The problem is, we're just fidgeting yolo-fizzbuzz ad nauseam.
The return on investment at the moment is probably one of the worst in the history of human investments.
AI does improve over time, still today, but we're going to run out of planet before we get there...
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toephu2 • today at 5:18 AM
AI can't even find a cure for the common cold.
soulofmischief • today at 3:59 AM
The Wright brothers are idiots, if it were me I'd have made a supersonic jet from the get go and not waste my time mucking around with prototypes.
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As of yet, the AI models doing important work are still pretty specialized. I'd be happy to pitch in to run something like an open source version of alpha-fold, but I'm not aware of any such projects.
I have trouble seeing LLMs making meaningful progress on those frontiers without reaching ASI, but I'd be happy to be wrong.