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You can already do this in theory with tools like AutoGPT and BabyAGI. Why hasn't the singularity happened already?

Exactly AutoGPT is exactly what he is describing but I’m still lost as to what the verbiage is then. Is that the singularity?

Yes AutoGPT would be the singularity if it had more brain-like subsystems like long and short term memory and is hooked up to real world instruments.

"Yes AutoGPT would be the singularity if it was way more advanced and could manipulate physical reality at will"

Way to handwave all the difficulties with this in reality.

Lmao neither of those things I mentioned really cost more than 50 million dollars.

Money is definitely not the bottleneck here.

Yes it is, if not I would've already done it.

With comments like "lmao" and "brain-like subsystems", I'd go back to hitting the proverbial books (or more likely reddit in your case) rather than empty boasts.

I personally think the same as the other comment. Do you really think money is the bottleneck? Let’s assume Sam Altman felt that way. He couldn’t drum up that cash tomorrow if he wanted??? For the pinnacle of human invention. Twitter was purchased for way way more than 50 mil.

Yes? He's invested in GPT-4 which just came out. He needs to retrain a new model with higher context limit as well as build out memory systems probably with vector databases. OpenAI needs to continuously raise money and buy more hardware. I'm not sure what OpenAI is doing but they're obviously resource constrained, else they wouldn't be outpaced by competitors in text2img.

He probably doesn't want to give away more of his company since it's such an obvious winner.

Suppose Altman is actually doing this. Would he want anyone to know, especially given the ongoing brouhaha over the models that are already public?

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