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"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 47 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Because the shareholders need more growth. They might create Ultron along the way, but think of the profits, man!

[–] Phanatik@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There's no way these chatbots are capable of evolving into Ultron. That's like saying a toaster is capable of nuclear fusion.

[–] Xiaz@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Thats if you set the toaster to anything above 3

[–] masonlee@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s the further research being done on top of the breakthrough tech enabling the chat bots applications people are worried about. It’s basically big tech’s mission now to build Ultron, and they aren’t slowing down.

[–] Phanatik@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

What research? These bots aren't that complicated beyond an optimisation algorithm. Regardless of the tasks you give it, it can't evolve beyond what it is.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

I think we've got a bit before we have to worry about another major jump in AI and way longer for an Ultron. The ones we have now are effectively parsers for google or other existing data. I personally still don't see how we feel like we can get away with calling that AI.

Any AI that actually creates something 'new' that I've seen still requires a tremendous amount of oversight, tweaking and guidance to produce useful results. To me, they still feel like very fancy search engines.