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oytis ◴[] No.44609364[source]
I just hope when (if) the hype is over, we can repurpose the capacities for something useful (e.g. drug discovery etc.)
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charleshn ◴[] No.44610227[source]
I'm always surprised by the number of people posting here that are dismissive of AI and the obvious unstoppable progress.

Just looking at what happened with chess, go, strategy games, protein folding etc, it's obvious that pretty much any field/problem that can be formalised and cheaply verified - e.g. mathematics, algorithms etc - will be solved, and that it's only a matter of time before we have domain-specific ASI.

I strongly encourage everyone to read about the bitter lesson [0] and verifier's law [1].

[0] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

[1] https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/asymmetry-of-verification-and-...

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1. rcpt ◴[] No.44610947[source]
Have you ever seen a company say "welp, we wrote all the code. Now we're done?"