A.I. is Progressing Faster Than You Think!

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Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
While listening to Nate Jones analyze the upcoming approx trillion dollar IPO's (initial public offerings) for two of the largest A.I. companies, Anthropic and OpenAI in his latest video at 'OpenAI Just Filed For Its IPO. The Real Story Isn't The Trillion Dollars, it occurred to me that we're seeing something like what my grandfather saw, when electricity went from the laboratory, to a deeply integrated world-wide infrastructure, a century ago.

Then it was power going "BIG". Now it's intelligence going "BIG".

The electric power grid did not replace all power. The intelligence grid will not replace all intelligence. Both were, or will be, expanded and refined in many ways, opening new opportunities for (back then) industrially produced power or (coming to us now) industrially produced intelligence, including down to small devices like say a solar powered "smart" watch ... where the industrial scale is on the back end, making millions of the same small device.

As I posted to Nate's above video:

So Anthropic and OpenAI become like the Westinghouse and General Electric of electrical equipment, a century ago. Destined to become huge while the underlying technology was advancing quickly, but then having to compete with many other smaller, sometimes much smaller, companies specializing in particular refinements of the technology and use cases.

In short: Machine power (aka electricity) == Machine intelligence (aka A.I.).

If neither psychopaths with nukes nor a galactic plasma current wave take down our civilization, one might be able to predict the shape of A.I. development over coming decades by comparing it with the shape of electricity development, a century ago.

That is an interesting way of looking at the development of AI that I had not thought of before.

I go way back to the printing machine for how new technology changed the world. Not only was knowledge (and entertainment) made available to all, but if you could cobble together the funds, you could print your own pamphlet and then distribute it. Along with enlightenment, disinformation spread like wildfire, but what an opportunity for advancing civilization!

[bojancan]

We know AI is a tool... but, how can you be pro..or anti tool.... at the end, the tool is either useful or it's not.... as I understand... but at the end... at the end.. not to useful to anyone... my 2 cents...
Interesting talk......

June, 15
CRASH IMMINENT: Ed Zitron Says AI Valuations Are Complete FRAUDS

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jDGPnaX-86Y

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[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by bojancan (here)
We know AI is a tool... but at the end... not to useful to anyone... my 2 cents...

Skilsaws might be dangerous tools, that have removed a few limbs by accident, and that one would not let a child play with.

But many a carpenter would not want to forego his Skilsaw. I find AI to be quite useful.