Executive order on advancing United States leadership in AI infrastructure

Re:Executive order on advancing United States leadership in ... by glitchc on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:06PM (#42704574)

I for one am not worried about this. We still have trouble building robots that can wash dishes autonomously, let alone build nuclear power plants autonomously. The key word here being autonomously i.e. without human intervention, which is what a superintelligent machine would require to grow into this singularity.

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Re:Executive order on advancing United States leadership in ... by jay_kyburz on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @06:32PM (#42705410)

I'm not "worried" about it. Just observing that the race is on. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing as long as the tech is in the hands of "the good guys".

I think as soon as you can get an AI to break a task down into smaller tasks, and make itself a todo list, you have the autonomy. You just kick it all off by asking it to improve itself. I doesn't have to "want" anything, it just needs to work.

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Re:Executive order on advancing United States leadership in ... by glitchc on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:31PM (#42714084)

I think you missed my point. I think we're a long ways away from it being a race against humanity.

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