it is plausible that, stumbles aside, AI achieves superintelligence in the very near future.
No, it absolutely isn’t. AI hasn’t even hit the slightest sign of actual intelligence so far so there is no reason to assume that it will get super-intelligent any time soon without some major revolutionary break-through (those are by definition unpredictable and can not be extrapolated from prior developments).
AI has all signs of having hit some major walls where it won’t improve anymore unless someone discovers something new that is at least as revolutionary as the original discovery that lead to ChatGPT.
Meanwhile the results of current LLMs are pretty much unusable without manual review for 99% of tasks where we would want AI, pretty much for all tasks other than “laugh at what the AI said” kind of use cases.
Is she going for the record for shortest-lived social media platform too now?
Maybe some sort of scheme where manufacturers have to publish the reasons for limitations in expected lifetimes to be verified independently (by some organization like the German TüV) and the warranty is based on that? So if you can’t prove that there is a good reason for a washing machine to break (excluding some bits that need to be replaced according to maintenance schedule maybe) before it gets 20 years old the warranty should be 20 years.
That is especially true since the US is at the ass end of nowhere so actual threats to its national security are incredibly rare.
It is probably unhealthy in a very similar way to parasocial relationships with celebrities are if people take those too far.
Russia has the remains of what used to 5k nukes 35 years ago. All with an annual military budget that is less than what the US spends on maintaining their nuclear arsenal and a culture of corruption that is likely the most prevalent in areas like the nuclear arsenal where nobody corrupt ever expected missing maintenance to be noticed.
Pretty sure we even have plenty of depressed and lonely people who have actual sex. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them aren’t depressed and lonely precisely because they are surrounded by so many people who supposedly care about them but really don’t.
Programmers can now use large language models (LLMs) to generate computer code more quickly. However, this only makes programmers’ lives easier if that code follows the rules of the programming language and doesn’t cause a computer to crash.
If that is their level of understanding of what constitutes code quality I am not surprised they think LLMs can actually produce usable code.
DOOM choose your own adventure style e-book?
It is not so much that China is the better world dominator, it is more that the US is already dominating more than any one nation should and it is a good thing if politicians keep dependencies on nations like that in their minds as a concern.
While I welcome a close relationship with Canada as someone in the EU I am not sure extending the EU that far outside its current area would be a good idea. Certainly not something to be rushed.
More regulation specifically designed to keep American products out of EU markets /s
Or does AI prey on lonely people much like other types of scams do?
I am not talking about degrees of intelligence at all. Measuring LLMs in IQ makes no sense because they literally have no model of the world, all they do is reproduce language by statistically analyzing how those same words appeared in the input data. That is the reason for all those inconsistencies in their output, they literally have no understanding at all of what they are saying.
An LLM e.g. can’t tell that it is inconsistent to talk about someone losing their right arm in one paragraph and then talking about them performing an activity that requires both hands in the next.