Video console emulators and AI. Emulators made me dig into video games history, which some I know first hand. I'm utterly amazed by the tools people is developing everywhere. AI, well it marvels me every single day. Funny enough both topics end up hitting again and again another obsession of mine, the dreadful laws of copyright.
In the other hand that ad business model allows them to provide services without charging money to the entire world, and that means a lot of people which otherwise wouldn't have a chance to access. Google made the web a much better place without any doubt, at least for a long time. But of course sometimes they also deserve valid criticism.
Oh I'm not saying that having a relationship with an AI is a bad thing per se. I actually enjoy the discussions with the LLM models, even the small ones that I run locally, in a way superior rate than the conversations that I often have with human beings, and pretty sure I'm not the only one. I didn't create yet an "entity" with some kind of persistent memory which will turn into my personal daily assistant (my personal Jarvis) but that's definitively in my to do list.
Sorry to disagree, we already crossed the line where the "Her" movie could turn into a real story. To say it more clearly: It won't take a long to see people even having affective relationships with AIs.
At the current rate of progress maybe it'll be months. I did a song for my company just to have fun around an event and the quality of the song was astounding, better than this one I think also using v3. I didn't even write the lyrics, I just described what I want in the prompt. Also I used one of poems I wrote as a teenager (not a lot of them) to create a song... the AI would notice the emphasis in the feelings of the lyrics, exactly in the same way I felt them, so it made pauses and chorus accordingly.
There's a whole genre in demoscene dedicated to 4kb productions. Most popular example till the current date is Elevated (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGdUDGo2Gxw), which in an entirely different way, provides also an incredibly good cinematic feeling. Made by wizards it must be.
Sometimes I imagine myself going back in time, back to the middle 80's, or even early 90's, and showing to my past self the crazy devices we have right now. It's a funny exercise, I think I'd see a current 200 bucks cellphone as an alien device.
Yet another chapter of the dementia surrounding the current copyright laws. We don't tax streets, we don't tax public spaces (mostly), but still western societies keep pushing forward the idea that carrying devices in our pockets capable of bearing almost all the available human knowledge (that can be almost instantly cloned), and still selling individual files is a logical concept.
Next step fearmongering people I guess will be to drop some poisoned food in the supply chain for a random supermarket. And "prove" that we should run away from supermarkets.
I guess that neural network has to have the capability of identifying the subject and know in every moment which network is the most capable for that subject, otherwise I can't understand how it could possibly evaluate which is the best answer.
Thank you for the explanation, I still have a hard time understanding how transformers work so amazingly well and tech is already quite a few steps over that idea.
So in layman's terms does this mean that on top of big base of knowledge (?) they trained 8 different 220B models and each model specialized in different areas, in practice like an 8 units "brain"?
PS. Thinking now how human brain does something similar as our brain is split in two parts and each one specialize in different tasks.
I'd go beyond that. Let's say this is the day any advanced computer can be turned into an AGI device. So what. There are already 8 billion, not AGI but "NGI" minds in the world. Thanks to the Internet, and outgrowing the fear of death, inevitable in the other hand, any of us could decide to use our available knowledge to create terrifying damage to our fellow humans. Specially people close to high-tech military systems, which has to be many, many thousands around the world, not to mention nuclear weapons installations. Instead of that, with extremely rare exceptions, all of us chose and have a deep desire of making our fellow humans happy, grow beautiful families, and live a meaningful life. And why is that? We should really think a little bit more about that before being so terrified about AI.
Oh c'mon... you know what I'm talking about, I'm not talking about theory and more theory, I'm talking about actual research done on top of an LLM, giving it the apparent freedom to go rogue and see what tries to do then. Specifically on top of OpenAI's GPT, as they the ones carrying this message along the world. This is the type of research I'm talking about. I saw Altman's presentation to the US congress and not a word, about any study, was said.
Well I'm not being paid to do that, but my professional instinct is, like you do with any other software, you set up a sandbox. Pretty sure an AI specialist could have much better ideas than me. What I don't get is how this narrative is being so wildly pushed without any research sustaining it, even just to say "hey we tried to investigate this huge issue, here you can see the great amount of papers we wrote, but we concluded is actually impossibly to establish the risks because etc etc". This is first class BS.
Of course you can, there's a thing called research. This narrative is being pushed WITHOUT any significant research behind. So this is only about economics and politics, not science.
Which risk? I mean I saw "Terminator 1" and "Terminator 2" (great movies) and I played "Horizon Zero Dawn" (great game). But what proof do we have of those risks exist apart from wild exercises of imagination?
Coolest thing I did in the past about that was to name the servers of a start up in which I participated after the characters/places of "The Odyssey": Penelope, Telemaco, Itaca...
I kinda surprised that no one mentioned this game in this thread before, and the few mentions is to bash it. I enjoyed a lot SimCity 2013, don't know why they create a mess with the version number and DRM was a pain in the back for sure, but the game for me was beyond amazing, effectively it was possible to zoom in and follow any citizen in the daily routine, graphics and music were amazing as well, never seen after that nothing close in this genre.
PS. Ok I saw that the problems were related with a buggy DRM system requiring Internet connection on top of that, I was lucky enough to begin playing when that was allowed to opt out.
As a Spaniard, genuinely curious about why they are so worried. I mean, the real reason. My first bet is Catalonia, but wouldn't be surprised they are actually worried about their own security.