Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by mritchie712 on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:32PM (#20502052)

Not offensive in the least, it's a compliment to what our species has done to date. We are all standing on shoulders and the shoulders have never been higher. Think of the things you can build in a day that were impossible to build 30 years ago. To think that there isn't at least some chance someone will build AGI in the next 30 years is foolish. Again, I'm just saying there is a reasonable chance, like hitting a homerun. It's not likely for any given plate appearance, but given the number of games and players it happens every summer day.

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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by Quarrelsome on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:35PM (#20502075)

We're making the process more opaque. How can that scale to AGI? We'll be stuck at 80% done for much longer.

I would posit that while its possible, it will take so long on this tech stack that we'll find another in the interim that will produce better results. I'm not convinced this branch is the winner.

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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by mritchie712 on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:42PM (#20502147)

Oh, do you mean how can Azure scale to AGI? I have no opinion on Azure, I just meant someone smart will figure it out. There are huge financial incentives to do so, when that happens, we (humans) figure shit out.

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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by Quarrelsome on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:50PM (#20502205)

> Oh, do you mean how can Azure scale to AGI?

No, not in the slightest. I mean as we progress the dev cycles get harder and slower. Then we need more engineers and the administration of more engineers working together makes everything harder.

Have you ever considered that making a rock think might be one of the greatest engineering projects our species has ever taken on? Sure humans might figure it out but I'm of the belief it will take them a very long time to. In addition, I believe that in that timescale a different tech stack might show more promise. I'm not convinced this technological branch scales all the way to AGI.

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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by mritchie712 on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:03PM (#20502302)

Fair point, but I think admin needs have gotten lighter. It took 400k people to get us to the moon. I want to see the results of 400k engineers working independently or in small teams on AGI.

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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by Quarrelsome on Monday July 22, 2019 @06:01PM (#20502706)

Sounds like a great idea and I'm all for it but I'm talking about the integration of that mess. It will be like trying to hit an ant on the moon with the precision of 18th century artillery.

> Well we've removed its irrational hatred of penguins but now it struggles with the concept of Wednesday again...

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