2026-04-19 07:02 UTC
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@IratePirate@feddit.org 2026-04-19 08:20
Good work, citizen! The tech bros need you to believe that their dumb digital parrots will eventually, magically metamorphose into AGI. It’s the only thing that keeps that sweet VC money flowing and the AI bubble from popping.
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@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 08:43
AGI is inevitable given enough time Is it inevitable with 500 years though?
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@Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 09:15
“It has the capacity to solve literally all our problems and make life on Earth as close to utopia as possible.” Sure… If it wasn’t in the hands of people who’s main purpose is to gather more money, resources and power. It won’t solve all our problems. It will solve theirs.
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@Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-19 09:39
AI is not something somebody is going to develop in their moms basement. AGI is NOT inevitable. The current models may grow sophisticated enough that it is hard to distinguish them from AGI, but will still be LLMs. I see the current AI bubble as a bunch of guys digging a hole, realizing they can’t get out and deciding the only way out is to keep digging.
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@timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 2026-04-19 12:00
The thing is, all this can be true (and I don’t really understand why you’re being downvoted,) but it’s also true that LLMs are no more evidence that we are close to AGI than Eliza was. AGI is inevitable, but it won’t come from an LLM, and all the hype in that direction from Anthropic, OpenAI et al is just so much bullshit. The problem is, we don’t need AGI to experience the catastrophic consequences; as bad or worse will be idiotic human intelligences putting very-much-not-AGI in charge of things it has no right to be in charge of because they drunk their own koolaid (or rather, the investors did.) That, unfortunately, is the future we are speedrunning - SkyNet never needed AGI, it just needs fucking idiots to put an LLM in charge of a weapons system. (As for AGI, my gut feeling is that it will come from the intersection of neural networks and quantum computing at scale - I’ll be filling my bunker with canned goods when the latter appears to be close on the horizon…)
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@leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-19 15:40
AGI might or might not be inevitable, but LLMs are very evidently not a path leading to it. If someone really believes AGI is possible and will solve everything, they should be the first waging active war against this generation of “AI”, though at this point it’s almost certainly too late already. The future has been murdered for short term profit, and once the bubble pops it’ll take ages before anyone invests in anything remotely related to AI again, despite LLMs having absolutely nothing to do with AI. Not that investment would do any good during the dark ages that are to come while we sift through the remaining slop to try to find any remaining fragments of actual information, science, and culture.
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@vane@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 17:41
Turn off computer, go outside or stop doing drugs.
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@badgermurphy@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 20:08
Even if you’re absolutely spot on, there is a second place, I believe. So far, all of these AI tools are software. Specialized hardware helps, but is not nearly as important as the software. Software is information, and secret information is only ever temporarily so. If that secret represents the distinction between existence and not, there is extreme pressure to learn that secret. “Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”