Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
by swiftcoder on Saturday October 05, 2024 @02:46PM
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> If it hinged on that, then you would actually be saying it's impossible
"impossible with the approach OpenAI is using" != "impossible"
Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
by namaria on Thursday October 10, 2024 @10:16AM
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Look, any sufficiently complex autonomous system necessitates a bigger, more complex one to maintain it's functionality. The more complex, the harder it is to deal with the entropy that this system is removing form it's target action area.
Eventually you need a whole universe capable of sustaining self reproducing intelligent systems. The way to get intelligent autonomous and sufficiently complex systems to do anything non trivial is life.
Anyone trying to sell you a box they say is capable of non trivial, adaptive, complex behavior autonomously is selling you a perpetual motion machine: a pretense that thermodynamics can be suspended at will.
If it hinged on that, then you would actually be saying it's impossible.
> The elements on Earth that make life possible couldn't have been created in a younger universe
Those statements also apply to the silicon and doping agents used in chip manufacture. They tell you nothing of relevance, we're not doing Carl Sagan's Apple Pie from scratch with AI, we're trying to get a thing like us.