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Re:OpenAI is building a social network by Topfi on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @12:13PM (#43707161)
In fairness, the AGI definition predicted by doomsday safety experts who don’t have time for such unimportant concerns as copyright or misinformation via this tech, everyone who is most certainly not merely hyping to get investor cash and the utterly serious and scientifically grounded MIRI, is essentially, one company will achieve AGI, shortly after a singularity and that’s that. No one else could create a second because that scary AGI is so powerful.

Believe we are far away from that with LLMs and that the attention those working in model safety give to this over current day concerns like Meta just torrenting for model data, are not very serious people, but have accepted that this isn’t a popular opinion amongst industry professionals. Not least because letting laws prevent them from model training is bad, either for the same weird logic Musk uses to justify testing FSD Betas on an unwilling public due to the potential to prevent future deaths, or because they genuinely took RB seriously. No idea what’s worse for serious adults…

Re:OpenAI is building a social network by ActorNightly on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @06:48PM (#43711174)
The funny thing is that nobody stops to ask if that version of AGI is even possible. For example, it would have to run a simulation of reality with enough accuracy faster than reality happens, and also multiple simulations in parallel. For physical world interaction, this is doable, but when it comes to predicting human behavior with enough accuracy, its probably not.

So even if we manage to come up with an algorithm that self learns, self expands, and so on, it likely won't be without major flaws.