Fair enough but he doesn't give much factual reasoning to support that. If you believe the brain is a biological computer and AI computing keeps advancing, at some point it will be able to do the same stuff or better, which is what most people think of as AGI.
I wrote about that for my uni entrance exam 43 years ago and it's always just seemed obvious common sense to me. I know Turing wrote about it before then but I never read that - it's just seems kind of obvious it'll happen.
>The Brits ... now have to enter an ID to use websites like Twitter, Bluesky, Discord, YouTube, Spotify, and potentially even Wikipedia.
I'm a Brit and have had to enter nothing to access any of those and don't intend entering an ID. There isn't a legal requirement to even have an ID in the UK.
You've heard about the legislation for this, right? The sites you use probably presume you're over 18.
But that's not the most disturbing thing, what's disturbing is the way "terrorism" or "proscribed organisations" are defined, and you're not allowed to voice support for them.
>so far away from being able to construct anything that could think like a human being that the beginning of it isn't even in sight.
To me things like MuZero (learns go etc. without even being told the rules) and the LLMs getting gold in the math olympiad recently suggest we are quite close to something that can think like a human. Not quite there but not a million miles off either.
Both in human terms involve thinking and are beyond what I can do personally. MuZero is already superintelligent in board games but current AI can't do things like tidy your room and fix your plumbing. I think superintelligence will be gradually achieved in different specialities.
>like Leonardo Da Vinci and his aerial screw
that didn't function. Current AI functions quite a lot. I think we are more maybe like people trying to build things that will soar like and eagle but we presently have the Wright bros plane making it 200m.
Re the capabilities of neurons, the argument in Moravec's paper seem quite solid, comparing the capabilities of a bit of the brain we understand quite well, the retina, to computer programs doing the same function.
My feeling is we have enough compute for ASI already but not algorithms like the brain. I'm not sure if it'll get solved by smart humans analysing it or by something like AlphaEvolve (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489).
One advantage of computers being much quicker than needed is you can run lots of experiments.
Just the power requirements make me think current algorithms are pretty inefficient compared to the brain.
>Rebuilding Notre-Dame’s “forest” also meant selecting 1,300 oak trees from across France that were “as close as possible to those of the 13th century”, that is, “very straight and very slender”, according to Desmonts, with “no defects”. Jean-Louis Bidet, the technical director of Ateliers Perrault, remembers the rush to harvest the trees in autumn so the carpenters could begin squaring the green wood from “dozens of truckloads” before the end of 2022.
The second step should be for Western states to call on Israel to disarm and relinquish control of Gaza and the West Bank.
Hamas cannot be trusted to oversee the Palestinian people for the sake of Israel then Israel cannot be trusted to oversee Gaza and the West Bank for the sake of the world.
Genocide and ethnic cleansing are the latest attrocity, they need to be the last.
If you're going to make statements like that you should at least know your history.
Egypt ended up with Gaza after the 1948 Arab Israeli war. They controlled Gaza until the 6 day war when they lost it and the Sinai Peninsula. Israel offered to give Gaza back to Egypt as part of the Camp David accords but Egypt didn't want it. Israel abandoned Gaza to Hamas in 2007. But after 10/7 they've decided that was a mistake.
So yeah you can demand all you want that Israeli accept being slaughtered by Islamic terrorists but isn't going to happen. Reality is calls to push Israel into a corner is going to result in stuff you claim not to want.
Maybe related to the stealing of land, killing and displacement of those that lived on the land now claimed as Israel?
Slaughtering peoples family and relatives is an act of violence that should expect repercussions.
The deliberate casting aside of any responsibility for death, including tens to hundreds of thousands of children, plus others, is astounding and frankly unforgivable.
First thing the new Arab countries did when they gained independence after WWII was to kick out the Jews.
It's an ideologically motivated fiction that Israeli's are all Zionist colonizers from Europe. 60% of them are refugees from middle eastern countries. And the majority of the rest are refugees from Europe. I find Middle Easterners and Europeans to have a lot of gall to ignore their contribution the mess.
Before 1948 Jewish people bought land from Arabs at inflated prices. During 1948 it was only government land that was allocated to Israel and Arab state.
> Slaughtering peoples family and relatives is an act of violence that should expect repercussions.
Yes, that’s why you understand that Hamas ans Hezbollah must be destroyed. Continually starting war with their neighbours should indeed expect repercussions.
Hamas didn't start a war. It committed an atrocity. Israel has committed worse before and since. I've no idea how Israel recovers as a country given the continuous and popularity of the daily atrocities they perpetrate and the decades that this has been happening for.
Wars involve sides attacking each other. Israel bombing anyone in Gaza doesn't qualify as a war.
The atrocity is ongoing, and started a war. Surely you know that right?
> Israel has committed worse before and since.
Before will go back to 1948, when the IDF predecessor is accused of violence against an arab town that wasn't resisting. Since is laughable. You sound like you read all the NYT headlines and miss the retractions.
> > Are you going to call on Poland and France to disarm and relinquish the parts of Germany they won after Germany started a war against them?
> What relevance does this question have?
> There wasn't a question
Of course there was a question you silly man! Firstly, it's very obviously a question and then secondly you stated it was a question yourself. Now answer the question.
>We do need to start talking about the failure of capitalism.
People have been talking about the failures of capitalism long before the word was coined, going back to at least Abraham buying land with silver coins in 1675 BC and Jesus throwing out the money changers.
Although it's a mess, people are generally better off than a while ago or under non capitalist systems.
Fair enough but he doesn't give much factual reasoning to support that. If you believe the brain is a biological computer and AI computing keeps advancing, at some point it will be able to do the same stuff or better, which is what most people think of as AGI.
I wrote about that for my uni entrance exam 43 years ago and it's always just seemed obvious common sense to me. I know Turing wrote about it before then but I never read that - it's just seems kind of obvious it'll happen.
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