@fugueish I am also being generous with 3 bars of 5G and only a 4 year old device.

@fugueish If your website doesn’t load in under 2 seconds on an a shitty 4 year old phone phone in anywhere I have at least 3 bars of 5G, you did it wrong.

@MissConstrue @complexmath @nelson @benjamineskola I don't think you necessarily need anything quantum for it, just some very powerful classical computational device (based on the fact that given our current understanding of the human brain, they do not do any quantum-like processing. also the fact that quantum computers have been "just a few years away" for what, like 30 years now?)

but yeah, I find AI in concept quite interesting. if you'd asked me pre-chatgpt, that's what I wanted to specialize into.
now? god, that shit just sounds so fucking exhausting. I do not want anything to do with it. I want to stay as far away from it as possible.

@benjamineskola @MissConstrue @complexmath @nelson the word "agent" is used to mean an actor performing actions to achieve their goal
it can be from something as simple as a thermometer that measures the inside temperature to adjust an HVAC system to remain within a given range (the actions being turning on/off the heat/cooling & the goal being to achieve a given temperature), to as complex as a human

@benjamineskola @MissConstrue @complexmath @nelson I'm using the word "agent" to not necessarily refer to "AI agents"

see: https://tech.lgbt/@solonovamax/116659064720106166

but yes, I currently believe that an artificial agent capable of thought and accurately modeling the world is science fiction
however I believe it is possible, only based on the fact that the transformer architecture is turing complete. but it might not be efficient for this, it might require like a model that's 10,000x larger than what is currently the largest possible model. I do not believe it is something that is possible in the near future (well, I hope it isn't).

@MissConstrue @complexmath @nelson @benjamineskola hypothetically it is possible for an artificial agent (read: "AI") to be capable of accurately modeling the world and "thinking", however it seems that this is not currently even remotely the case.

@nelson @benjamineskola agents (the general word for entities performing actions to achieve their goal, not talking about necessarily "AI agents", this word even applies to people, and even something like a thermostat that controls temperature) that wish to achieve their goals should be able to accurately model the real world
their ability to model the real world is directly correlated with their ability to achieve their goals. so, an agent which can accurately model the real world is able to achieve its goal much more easily that one that cannot accurately model the real world

and, people generally call an accurate model of the real world "truth"

hypothetically, the transformer architecture should be able to scale to human-level intelligence as it is turing-complete.
so, how it was trained doesn't necessarily matter, it's just that it is not capable of modeling the real world, so it cannot evaluate the truthiness of a statement