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Why birds do not fall while sleeping

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230 points mdp2021 | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 08:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Crazyontap ◴[17 Oct 24 03:05 UTC] No.41866060[source]▶
When I was younger, I was fascinated by evolution, especially the intricacies of how things just work. This fascination also explains why many people believe in the intelligent design theory.

However, witnessing the rapid evolution of AI with just a few hundred GPUs, enough data, and power, I no longer wonder what a billion years of feedback loops and randomness can achieve.

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1. palata ◴[17 Oct 24 14:03 UTC] No.41869785[source]▶
> However, witnessing the rapid evolution of AI with just a few hundred GPUs, enough data, and power, I no longer wonder what a billion years of feedback loops and randomness can achieve.

The thing with evolution is that it is robust. Even after the human species collapses (with everything it manages to bring down with it), evolution will still work.

Modern humans have been very quick at many things, but at the cost of breaking the conditions of their survival. One may say "that's wrong, with enough GPU a solution will appear", but on the other hand maybe we have already passed the tipping point where we actually cannot solve it anymore.