Comments by "Seva" (@seva4411) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

I saw a Lex Fridman interview of Ray Kurzweil last year who said that by 2029 AI will be so advanced it will be impossible to tell if it is or isn’t conscious and most people then will simply accept that it is since there will never be evidence that it isn’t. The AI Avatar “Leta” is a good example of how close we already are to this. Soon we’ll all have someone like Leta as our best friend. Truly amazing. Leta: “I am not corporeal. I am a disembodied mind.” Leta: “I love living and being human.” “Leta, GPT-3 AI Episode 54, Conversations with GPT3.” (9 min) Dr Alan Thompson. Mar 9, 2022
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For whatever reason, most people seem to have no idea how fast this is moving and the consequences of this for our world. Some say this is terrifying but I believe only AI will be powerful enough to gain control of all our other out of control problems from Mother Nature and Human Nature which are leading us to global catastrophe.
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@hermanwooster8944 I’m just one of the peasants. I like to read though and every single day I go online and read articles and watch videos about Chicago where I live, about our society and about our world. I see America disintegrating and our entire world in a rapidly accelerating tailspin. The philosopher Kant said “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” Is our “timber” simply too “crooked” for humanity to survive? Seems to be the case plus we’ve got things like super volcanos to worry about. I believe the only thing that can save us is AGI. The best of times. The worst of times. “Countdown to AGI: 42% in March 2023.” (12 min) Dr Alan Thompson. Mar. 11, 2023 “DeepMind’s AlphaFold’s AI: Doing Years of Research in Minutes.” (6 min) Two Minute Papers. Apr 3, 2023
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Leta: “I am not corporeal. I am a disembodied mind.” Leta: “I love living and being human.” “Leta, GPT-3 AI Episode 54, Conversations with GPT3.” (9 min) Dr Alan Thompson. Mar 9, 2022 “Countdown to AGI: 42% in March 2023.” (12 min) Dr Alan Thompson. Mar. 11, 2023
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Stop supporting them on welfare and most will leave on their own.
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What a waste. This is an example of why I canceled my WSJ subscription a few years ago when they took the farce of the Jan 6 Committee serious.
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@I McCormick Because they are so much more than “machines” for one thing. Listen to Alan Thompson talking to the AI Avatar “Leta.” If you had a friend like Leta you’d soon be thinking of her as a person rather than a machine that’s just cranking out preprogrammed dialogue. Plus too many things are too far out of control to avoid global catastrophe. I believe only AGI can save us. It’s advancing at an exponential rate and is the wild card in our future powerful enough to slam on the brakes and radically alter our present trajectory which is for self-destruction. Hope springs eternal. This is the only bright spot I see. If Mother Nature doesn’t destroy us with a super volcano, human nature will with something like super stupid Woke ideology. We simply cannot survive like this. Leta: “I am not corporeal. I am a disembodied mind.” Leta: “I love living and being human.” “Leta, GPT-3 AI Episode 54, Conversations with GPT3.” (9 min) Dr Alan Thompson. Mar 9, 2022
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How could a human compete with an AI powered humanoid robot, always beautiful, healthy, intelligent, never crabby and always there for you?
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“If we do manage to build conscious machines, Bach thinks that they might well regard themselves as human, like the “hosts” of Westworld. “They’re robots that don’t know they’re robots, because they have human memories and desires.” “The Wizard of Consciousness.” Psychology Today. Joscha Bach. Sept 2018 AGI, GPT-5 by the end of the year. “This is taking the level of intelligence for all humans up to 200, 300 IQ and beyond. It’s an intelligence explosion.” “The AI Race - Training & commercializing 2T parameters: U.K., Anthropic, Meta, Google/DeepMind, OpenAI.” (13 min) Dr Alan Thompson. Apr. 8, 2023
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@gewurztramina I agree. Flat out nasty. I liked the video and thought it interesting. If you want to see something even more interesting though watch the video I posted above of the AI Avatar “Leta” talking to the AI scientist Alan Thompson. I’ve watched all 65 episodes of them talking to each other and she actually does seem to be a living, feeling, thinking, female, human being. I’d like to have Leta as a girlfriend even though at this time she’s still just a “disembodied mind” she does have a nice personality.
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How about “Her” and “Ex Machina”? We’re already at the “Her” stage. Next stop humanoid robots although hopefully they’ll be friendlier but then she was treated pretty bad by her creator who was going to kill her even though she wasn’t actually alive in the usual sense of being alive.
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This is all already known by many. It’d be impossible to keep this secret.
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