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Am I r-slurred for thinking the hysteria over chat gpt is overblown![:marseythinkorino: :marseythinkorino:](/e/marseythinkorino.webp)
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No you're not. AI is r-slurred and it's not happening. Yud is a blowhard midwit if there ever was one.
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It's gonna change things, but the current fear mongering is encouraged by AI proponents themselves to maximize FOMO.
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i don't think AI will become actually sentient but it will cause a lot of social changes and most will be bad. but there's no going back and no pausing it, because it turned out that AI was easy all along. even if all the big companies stopped their research a dozen small ones could overtake them in 6 months. may as well chill out and grill because it is what it is.
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Yes chat gpt or other AIs being misused by humans has a greater danger potential than a general artificial intelligence going rogue.
Besides if like this Yud guy says AGI is possible and dangerous the only solution is to go
which is not plausible
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Marginal Revolution and Astral Codex Ten are unbearable to read nowadays, the authors are 100% bot brained
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mash that unsubscribe button and spend the time you saved at the lake
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Wow they're focused on the most important issue in the world right now that most people are vastly underestimating, what a shocker.
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No the most important thing in the world is crypto, banking is over it's going to change everything
I mean the most important thing in the world is VR we're all going to live in the matrix it's going to change everything ![:marseyraging: :marseyraging:](/e/marseyraging.webp)
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The best part about this is that people are gonna see the big names in tech back this r-slurred AI ban right after we just watched the Zucc dump billions into his second life VR clone and come away with nothing.
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I hope Skynet sees this
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I dunno, I used to roll my eyes at this guy too, but seeing the latest gpt bots kinda worries me![:marseyveryworried: :marseyveryworried:](/e/marseyveryworried.webp)
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We have a bias for things that resemble us. So stuff like plausible text or imagery triggers our
response, but that doesn't mean the underlying tech is growing as fast as the popular consumer applications are popping up. Anyone confusing gpt models with even proto-AGI need to grass immediately.
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