LorenzoBloedow

I'll admit blockchains (while they may have potential for the future) don't currently have much use in the real world, but saying the only people it helps are criminals is just that old flawed argument that undermines privacy which in turn only benefits oppressors

I personally attribute this FOMO to so called AI influencers who love "shilling" AGI as something that's as true as 1 + 1 = 2

Sure, repetitive tasks may get replaced in the short time depending on the complexity, but, the way I see it, there will always be a human need, new jobs of higher complexity and creativity will be created, and maybe there will be less jobs overall, but predictable jobs being replaced always happen with new advances in technology, whether that's a good thing or not :)

Thanks for the response! I'm torn between AI research and just implementing models with my own data, I do enjoy math but I can't seem to understand advanced math, that might change after I get an engineering degree though, or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But for the time being, I'm just wondering if people who win Kaggle competitions implement their own algorithm, or do they just read a lot and try techniques that are already out there?

AI is not and most likely will not be a "magic box that meets all your needs" in at least 1000 years unless something insane happens, AI does function approximation, when you scale it up it can do amazing things but you still need human creativity, you still need engineers because it can only output data not act on real-world stuff, you still need data that is generated by humans, you still need to train every model for your specific task, and tasks are infinite.

If we wanted to replace humans we'd have to fully figure out how the human brain works first, for now no one knows how the human brain truly works so how can we claim AI will replace all humans?

In my opinion, AGI is just an acronym pushed by people who have something to gain from mass hysteria, FOMO, and making people feel like "the end is near", AKA, AI influencers and founders who want investors to give them money.

Of course, this doesn't mean everyone who believes in AGI is one of the two, most were probably just fed this narrative and it sounded believable so they just went with it.

These are my two cents, sorry for the wall of text :P, but I just had to say something about what I perceive as an "AI bubble" that generates mass panic for most in order to benefit a few

I'm looking into learning more about ML and how I can create my own models. I enjoy math, but when I read research papers the formulas sound like gibberish. I also like the idea of Kaggle competitions, do you think I need to have research-level math understanding of ML models to do well on Kaggle?

Does anyone know why the blur effect always takes so much power? Is there not a way to use the GPU, or is the problem something else entirely?