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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 29 points 1 week ago

If there’s a singularity here, it’s that OpenAI is a black hole that all the money falls into. And you’ll never see it again.

inspired quote

[–] BioMan@awful.systems 21 points 1 week ago

I truly cannot tell which of them are in religious psychosis and which of them are shameless liars

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea.... OK can it still count the R's in strawberry? Or Xs in October? Or have a timer for a mile run?

This technology is a joke

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The seahorse emoji remains my favorite for showing how LLMs are completely incapable of handling obviously false information in their training data.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI Overview special cased it, booooo

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Did they remember to cover the other ones mentioned at 4:20 in the video (igloo, starfish, traffic cone, flip-flops, Eiffel tower, cotton candy, fork)?

[–] petealexharris@mastodon.scot 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@dgerard
Sam Altman is in the singularity, in that he is now convinced LLMs are smarter than him, he doesn't understand the tech or how it is evolving, and he doesn't know what's going to happen next.

The rest of us are not in his exact predicament. I was going to say we're fine, but nah.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Sam Altman is in the singularity, in that he is now convinced LLMs are smarter than him

I'm reminded of a quote that used to always come up when I was studying cryptography. Bruce Schneier would always remind people that it's easy to design an encryption scheme that you can't break. But it's hard to design an encryption scheme that nobody else can break, either.

It is a good reminder that there needs to be a degree of intellectual humility by those who want to design big systems that affect the whole world.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The true Tech Singularity foretold by prophecy is that all Tech Bro Billionaires will become hopelessly single.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Day 3 after the singularity. Rate of change still the same, no warnings about light cones, and openAI still didnt make trillions of dollars.

Worst. Singularity. Ever.

[–] sabik@rants.au 7 points 1 week ago

@Soyweiser @dgerard
The existence of light cones implies the existence of full-cream cones

[–] Illuminatus@mstdn.social 5 points 1 week ago

@Soyweiser @dgerard You can't get all of the shiny cyberpunk over-the-top special effects when you syphoned the budget into the stockholders' debauchery fund.

[–] lurker@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Getting a T-Shirt that says “I entered the Singularity and all I got was a plagiarism machine, a higher cost of living and this stupid T-Shirt”

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

Clearly the shirt also needs a big typo.

[–] Phosphenes@mastodon.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

@Soyweiser @dgerard

What if Musk is the financial singularity?

First he's a trillionaire, next year he has 2 trillion, the year after that 4 trillion, and so on, until he owns more dollars than have ever existed, at which point the US treasury collapses into a black hole and is never seen again.

[–] yrrsinn@chaos.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@Phosphenes
Come on it can't be so easy to overcome capitalism - just wait till it collapse 😉
@Soyweiser @dgerard

[–] diz@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

Into a black hole.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

the techbro singularity will be the AI bubble popping.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

All y’all still don’t get it: the singularity is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.