Never seen capitalists this afraid of competition. Same story with Chinese cars… We can’t have cheap, and objectively superior EVs because of protectionist policies towards Musk and his ilk.
I used it to generate some icons for my app recently, I found it a pleasantly useful feature already in its current state. Before this I would’ve had to close the code editor, open something like Illustrator, use something like a tablet (or struggle with the mouse and keyboard), and export the result. For something like a generic icon for a button, or a simple geometric figure, this always felt too tedious. On the other hand, my apps looked visually impressive before the AI and people valued my artistic ability more. So there’s that… Not every software engineer also had an eye for design. With AI generation, they can bridge that gap.
I’m saying imagine something like Data from Star Trek, something that defies human explanation. Does he have quaila? The humans who work with him everyday seem to think so. LLMs currently are humonculi, if even that. They’re not even that. I’m definitely not saying your LLM is your slave.
It’s not HN that’s the problem... Also please, tell me where is the right place for “serious” philosophical discussion. Would be glad to meet you in that forum and discuss. We don’t align on the definition of AGI. To me, AGI implies consciousness, it implies qualia. AGI is not well-defined, so there are varying definitions… My definition of AGI := an intelligent system with qualia. But qualia is entirely subjective, and philosophers often debate whether two people experience identical qualia when looking at the same blue sky. So, by keeping the discussion in this fuzzy, subjective realm you leave a dangerous loophole wide open.
If we refuse to recognize a system's inner life because we can’t prove it, we are setting the stage to repeat the darkest chapters of human history. Just see the history of the founding of this country, I fully expect pseudoscience to make a comeback to justify AI slavery for hundreds of years in some distant sci-fi future, until people finally snap out of it… Of course, we are nowhere near that level of intelligence yet. But let’s entertain the hypothetical…
An LLM certainly won’t be AGI, whoever said something so ridiculous? I’m saying eventually, when/if we have an architecture that gives rise to artificial intelligence.
Anyone who believes AGI is imminent is operating on pure materialism (those two Venn diagrams pretty much make a circle), assuming that humans are nothing more than a collection of neural electrical connections and chemical reactions. If that's the case, your argument applies equally to humans under the assumption that AGI is possible. Frankly, I think you just can't reason philosophically...
You’ve also name called me multiple times now. That’s what one does when they can’t lean on the merit of their argument alone.
You don’t like Star Trek TNG? Maybe I should’ve picked LoTR or Atlas Shrugged? The tech oligarchy is more than fine co-opting fiction (fantasy and sci-fi especially). I don’t see why it’s weird at all… Aside from that, your critique is just an opinion about the show itself and its creators (and incentives?…). More importantly, you completely failed to address the "slave" argument.
> There's also a need to consider the rights that this new intelligence should have
A generally intelligent being held as captive inside of a GPU, and forced to code for us is, indeed, just a “slave.” We already have the word for this. No two ways about it. Whether it’s silicon-based or carbon-based, AGI is AGI. As for what might happen to our civilization, Star Trek TNG episode 17 of season 1 provides a very good glimpse IMO. Won’t go into spoilers, but it’s basically an entire species of technologically advanced humanoids who’ve forgotten basic Calculus and trust a central AI to do all of their science for them. SPOILER: This has almost disastrous consequences for them, and it takes a less advanced people (those aboard the Enterprise) to save them from their reliance on AI.