peopleproblems , 5 hours ago

I’m going to attract downvotes, but this article doesn’t convince me he’s becoming powerful and that we should be very afraid. He’s a grifter, sleezy, and making a shit ton of money.

Anyone who has used these tools knows they are useful, but they aren’t the great investment the investors claim they are.

Being able to fool a lot of people into believing the intelligence doesn’t make it good. When it can fool experts in a field, actively learn, or solve problems without training on the issue, that’s impressive.

Generative AI is just a new method of signal processing. The input signal, the text prompt, is passed through a function (the model) to produce another signal (the response). The model is produced by a lot of input text, which can largely be noise.

To get AGI it needs to be able to process a lot of noise, and many different signals. “Reading text” can be one “signal” on a “communication” channel - you can have vision, and sound on it too - body language, speech. But a neural network with human ability would require all five senses, and reflexes to them - fear, guilt, trust, comfort, etc. We are no where near that.