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Re:OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from M... by johnisgood on Saturday November 16, 2024 @08:34AM (#42156324)
> The sharp rise in Dota bot performance is apparently causing people internally to worry that the timeline to AGI is sooner than they’d thought before.

I do not see why one would worry about AGI just because there is a rise in bot performance. What kind of performance are we talking about? I have written bots for various games myself but never once I thought I am creating "intelligence" or that it would ever lead to that.

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Re:OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from M... by robertlagrant on Saturday November 16, 2024 @09:31AM (#42156620)
I think it's more like they're using a general-purpose intelligence (or intelligence-simulating) method that applies broadly to things, rather than creating a bespoke bot for a game that follows rules.
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Re:OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from M... by grugagag on Saturday November 16, 2024 @09:58AM (#42156741)
Im more worried of bots flooding all kinds of social media pushing public oppinion in the direction their owners want. I feel that this is already happening.
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Re:OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from M... by threatripper on Saturday November 16, 2024 @10:20AM (#42156865)
I'm pretty sure that LLMs already overpower the average arguing abilities of users on many platforms. Not even low resolution video calls are safe anymore to verify somebody is a real person.
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Re:OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from M... by johnisgood on Saturday November 16, 2024 @10:37AM (#42156919)
That is true, we must assume nothing is genuine or authentic, video or audio. It used to be photos before, but it is no longer limited to images or photos anymore.
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Re:OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from M... by thrw42A8N on Sunday November 17, 2024 @04:52AM (#42163142)
That was happening for many years before any AI, and now that AI is well known people are finally starting to be sceptical. A positive development.
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Re:OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from M... by libertine on Sunday November 17, 2024 @07:53AM (#42163951)
It's happening already at a large scale: https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/news-events/russian-state-sponsor...
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Re:OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from M... by fragmede on Saturday November 16, 2024 @10:08AM (#42156805)
Kurzgesagt had a bit on it in their AI video, but that game bot is specialized to your game, it doesn't generalize. OpenAI used a more general AI to drive dota.

eg Deep Blue beat Kasparov (1997), but that was a narrow AI and couldn't play go or dota.

https://youtu.be/fa8k8IQ1_X0

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