Comment by armchairhacker
18 hours ago
Let's wait until AI solves a longstanding practical problem before "dawn of the singularity" (which could be tomorrow, but still).
18 hours ago
Let's wait until AI solves a longstanding practical problem before "dawn of the singularity" (which could be tomorrow, but still).
Practical?! The goalposts will keep moving until morale improves (narrator: it doesn't)
The goalposts for the singularity have always been that AI improves itself fully autonomously. AFAIK OpenAI is heavily using AI but still employs human researchers and developers.
They said they will automate AI researchers by March 2028. I personally think it will happen by March 2027.
Uh I'm pretty sure the "singularity" always presupposed a lot of previously unthinkable technologies becoming part of daily life, and was not ever limited to just computer stuff or math problems.
"Moving the goalposts" as shallow dismissal doesn't work if e.g. someone points out AI hasn't even built a new type of spaceship yet in response to a claim that AI is on the verge of building a Dyson sphere.
feels like moving the goalpost. is the achievement impressive or isn't it?
The question being posed isn't whether AI is impressive but whether we're at the "dawn of the singularity"
i'm observing that rapidly moving goalposts is a feature of the singularity