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Crazyontap ◴[] 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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protonbob ◴[] No.41868344[source]
All of the data that has gone into AI has been intelligently created. Also, there are plenty of intelligent people cleaning the test data and guiding its training.

That is basically the entire premise of intelligent design. Not that there is no evolution, but that it is a guided process.

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fellowniusmonk ◴[] No.41870271[source]
Right, genetic and morphological lineage data among hominidae and other families look exactly like you'd expect from unguided mutation. So any intelligent hand involved would have to be a real trickster to put so much effort into making the data look the way it does, or just shouldn't have bothered because it seems we end up at the same place regardless.
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1. protonbob ◴[] No.41871778[source]
I'm just saying your conclusion doesn't follow from AI. I'm not arguing for God right now.
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2. fellowniusmonk ◴[] No.41873294[source]
I think you're replying to the wrong person.