kakapo1988

Because humans wiped out the mammoths, giant sloths, and a host of other megafauna. All those species survived millions of year, and numerous previous ice ages, but had no defense against human hunters. So as each area on earth was colonized by our species, the megafuana were quickly wiped out in that area.

I'm from NZ, and we had that event in our recent history. The islands had numerous species of giant birds, but these were wiped out quickly by the first humans who came here, just a few centuries ago. Same everywhere. We've been driving species to extinction for a long time.

I wonder if the invading aliens will wonder if we feel pain? However they decide, I just hope they make it quick.

At some point, I wonder if there will be advantageous for AI to just drop down directly into machine code, without any intermediate expression in higher-level languages. Greater efficiency?

Obviously, source allows human tuning, auditing, and so on. But taken at the limit, those aspects may eventually no longer be necessary. Just a riff here, as the thought just occurred.

I hear this a lot, but don't understand it.

In my own field (biomedical research), AI has already been a revolution. Everyone - and I mean everyone - is using AlphaFold, for example. It is a game changer, a true revolution.

And everyday I use AI for mundane things, like summarization, transcribing, and language translation. All supremely useful. And there is a ton more. So I never understand the "hype" thing. It deserves to be hyped imo, as it is already become essential.