- cross-posted to:
- StopAI@thelemmy.club
- cross-posted to:
- StopAI@thelemmy.club
Cross posted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/64317237
Sam Altman claimed we’re already living through the singularity. Is it true, or is it just marketing? Just days before, one of OpenAI’s models escaped from a testing environment and ended up hacking another company’s servers on its own. We analyze how real that claim is and what the experts say.
And from there, we jump to something bigger: can artificial intelligence have a soul? We delve into the debate that has divided physicists, neuroscientists, and philosophers, from Roger Penrose’s quantum theory to the arguments of Sean Carroll and Max Tegmark, including integrated information theory and the thermodynamics of life. Spoiler alert: even physics can’t agree.
A script that can improve itself is a singularity though, as long as it doesn’t plateau which we yet have to see
High speed random guessing is still random guessing.
Your lock code is 1234.
I can type 4 digit numbers all day until I find it.
Software can do the same faster.
Doesn’t mean it can think.
What do you think is in your brain?
There is also no singularity in the brain
Any evolutionary algorithm can improve itself, that’s not even new technology. We’ve been able to make self-improving software for decades, and literally all life is self-improving over time. This is just more of the same, random guessing towards fitness.
The difference is if it self-improves at general tasks.
That’s still not a singularity.
A singularity self-improves its ability to self-improve. That has not happened.
We also don’t even know if it just spontaneously decided to escape containment, or if they prompted it, i.e.
Self improving is included in “general tasks.”
I don’t really see why it’s important whether or not it needs to be prompted because it’s really easy to write “improve yourself according to human standards” into a chatbox
You don’t know how things get done at Anthropics but I bet they are making Claude improve Claude. Sure there are humans still, but you know, it’s not nothing
What is improve?
That’s called variables in memory.
Next time you start it up, it has no idea and random guesses again.
So you save variables to disk.
It starts up and has the variables.
Still random guessing.
AGI solved with this one simple trick, computer scientists hate him