Kevin Jardine
Bruce Sterling @bruces*People still talk this way, as opposed to, "We'll have a giant Internet-scraping platform that uses more nuclear power than a city"
not a martian, honest@bruces look, it all just depends on how low your opinion of the average intelligence of human beings is.
Martin Bodlák 💙💛
Andreas K
Howard Chu @ Symas
cwicseolfor (has moved!)
older@bruces Why it is always one of these people: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-island-court-records-unsealed
Maier Amsden
Crumbs the Cat
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@bruces Worse yet, we have several such systems, all striving for one-upmanship over all others, which multiplies the energy and resources drained for that essentially enrichment-oriented purpose.
PCMy thoughts -
“Intelligence” - we haven’t even got a good definition of what that is.
Computers are just a knowledge base. They don’t have life.
That’s the movies talking.
RejZoR@bruces We've achieved intelligence of a lying hamster...
Maddler 
@bruces 35 later we've got people with the intelligence of a washing machine, instead.
Corpomancer@bruces Merely a play on words, let us argue on additional small specifics while regressing our stagnation in the ensuing confusion.
reziplikativ 🟥🟩🟦🟨
Kabooshki@bruces gotta love the boundless optimism of the 60's and 70's lol
Jaime Robertson@bruces “…and we’ll have fusion power in 30 years.”
Andres Jalinton
Freevolt@bruces Isn't it interesting that they call it intelligence but no one among them actually cares about what's intelligence?
@bruces Is it the 'intelligence' that we've wondered about for millennia, or the 'intelligence' that they conveniently defined?
Ryek DarkenerPerhaps this statement needs an update:
In three to eight years the average human will have the intelligence of a current general machine intelligence.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@bruces these people don't understand what Intelligence is, the question reminds me of the one people asked Deep Thought in the Hitch Hikers Guide about the Universe....we don't really understand the terms of Intelligence to say that we have replicated it.
Plus, Minksy is a nonce, so fuck what he thinks.
Bill Seitz@bruces "No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain! All I’m after is a mediocre brain, something like the President of AT&T." -- Alan Turing, ~1940.
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/ManageMent
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/ManageMent
James Wells@bruces
IIRC, he said that roughly around the time that IBM announced a major breakthrough around a way to model their neural processing units based on the nervous system of the Tomato Hornworms.
IIRC, he said that roughly around the time that IBM announced a major breakthrough around a way to model their neural processing units based on the nervous system of the Tomato Hornworms.
geos@bruces
True!
True!
teledyn 𓂀
Clayton SlaughterWith so many people being educated at institutions that prioritize teaching people how to calculate how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, I think AI has reached this milestone, not because AI has improved, it’s just the decline of the average human capacity that made it a reality.
Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦@bruces …and if we spent the sort of money that goes into LLMs on nuclear fusion instead, we probably would already have fusion power plants…