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orphereusyesterday at 6:25 PM3 repliesview on HN

"The age of humans comprehending things is coming to an end"

That's something AI companies would really want you to believe.


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ianm218yesterday at 6:31 PM

> That's something AI companies would really want you to believe.

Why would I care what they want me to believe?

Intuitively it would make sense that you can put math ability on a chart with a value for “general public” “smart high schooler” “smart undergrad” “smart PhD/ professional”. And you could place frontier AI somewhere on that chart over time from GPT 2 to now and see the trend.

Then you’d have to consider that either you believe there is a fundamental limit that is below peak human mathematician level or there’s not.

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jambalaya8yesterday at 7:18 PM

that does not make it not true, nor does it make those companies or their products not dangerous. I like looking at videos of animals that tear other animals apart and eat them; lion cubs are super cute; but that does not mean I want to be thrown into a cage with a model of a lion that has not been programmed to be disinterested when it is sated. AIs appear never sated; humans using or making AI wanting money, even less so. I suspect the AIs will understand the cost long before the humans will, not that anyone making money would care.

breadramenyesterday at 9:34 PM

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