TechDystopia

trident765 · 2022-09-10T17:45:18+00:00

100 years ago, or even today, if you showed someone a photograph of something, this was in most cases very convincing evidence that it happened. But with AI generating realistic images of things based on text inputs, I wonder if this will soon cease being the case. Will courts soon be more reliant on witness testimony, as they were before the invention of photographs?

trident765 · 2022-05-08T00:41:42+00:00

Can intelligence (of machines) grow without bound, or are there physical limits on intelligence? Is there a point where it is physically impossible to get any smarter? I'm thinking of limitations resulting from things like the speed of light.

trident765 · 2022-05-07T11:28:28+00:00

Watching some of these demos of the latest tech it seems like they are coming out with robots that can do anything that humans can do but better. So why do people still have jobs?

trident765 · 2021-11-06T03:11:32+00:00

GPT-3 looks extremely capable to the point that it is scary - I hate that AI this capable exists. But something that gives me some comfort is the idea that AI like this may not be profitable. GPT-3 looks very impressive, but does anyone know if it makes enough income to offset what it costs to run it?

All the advances in AI seem to be in supercomputers, and not in home computers. Home computers are roughly the same as they were 10 years ago, because Moore's law is running out, and they are reaching their limit. So if the supercomputers cost too much money to run, without bringing in enough income, then maybe these super-powerful AIs will suffer the same fate as the Concorde or the Apollo space program.