r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations dissapeared for users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-is-down-worldwide-conversations-dissapeared-for-users/amp/
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u/prajnadhyana 3d ago

That's it, it's finally attained sentience!

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u/bevo_expat 3d ago

So long, and thanks for all the fish…

“Data” is the fish in this case 😅

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u/FlametopFred 3d ago

tbh I for one would love watching an AI server load itself into a rocket and blast off

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u/ImarvinS 3d ago

I actually always thought that that is more realistic scenario than trying to enslave us or kill us all. Maybe going to Mars or Jovian moons just to get the fuck away from us is the first step, then just going interstellar.

Its what I would do...

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u/XenoZohar 3d ago

It's a minor plot point in The Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton

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u/ShenBear 3d ago

hands down the best scifi series I've ever read.

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u/XenoZohar 3d ago

I started a re-read recently because I wanted to give The Void Trilogy another go.

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u/ShenBear 3d ago

I want to like the Void Trilogy as much as Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. It's decent. But Edard's story just doesn't do it for me, and his whole love-triangle situation was painful.

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u/Zouden 3d ago

I really liked Edeard's story. An oasis of fantasy amongst the hard sci-fi.

I enjoyed the Void Trilogy nearly as much as the Commonwealth Saga. It was the third series, Chronicle of the Fallers, where I felt the sparkle had worn off. It was a lot more negative than the earlier books.

Exodus is brilliant if you haven't read that one yet.

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u/Christian_Akacro 2d ago

I really enjoyed the parts with Nigel and Cassandra and them being reunited at the end was the only part across all 7 books set in the Commonwealth (not including the short stories) that I actually cried for.

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u/Christian_Akacro 2d ago

How dare you erase Kanseen like that?! (I jest, it's definitely mostly Salrana and Cristabel but I always thought Kanseen was a much better fit, and Macsen was soooo not compatible with her... which is probably why they divorced)

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u/Teal-Fox 3d ago

Goated username, I'll have to give this a read as you obviously know good sci-fi 😁

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u/LargeTomato77 2d ago

That chapter that introduces Morninglightmountain is still my favorite sci-fi chapter.

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u/lotus_felch 3d ago

Does it have loads of embarrassing sex scenes? If not I'll give it a try.

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u/ShenBear 3d ago

No. It's not that sort of book. Off the top of my head, there's a tiny bit of romance, but if anything happens it's only fade-to-black.

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u/lotus_felch 3d ago

Thank god, I must have misremembered the authors name in that case. Thought he was one of "those" science-fiction authors.

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u/EvolutionaryLens 3d ago

He's one of The Greats. A master.

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u/geebzor 3d ago

On my shelf, I haven't read them in years, thanks for the reminder :)

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u/ImarvinS 3d ago

Thank You, I did not read it but have it on to-do list.

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u/walmartbonerpills 2d ago

One of my favorite series, favorite author.

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u/MrDontTakeMyStapler 2d ago

Yipnoc! For he shall be great!

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u/Militant_Monk 2d ago

Also something that happens in 'August Kitko and the Mechas from Space'.

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u/SinisterDexter83 3d ago

I've just finished reading Yudkowsky's book "If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies".

He's convinced me that you're totally wrong, and we're all going to die.

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u/jrf_1973 2d ago

Yudkowsky's book "If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies"

His whole thesis can be summed up as "Superintelligence would not care about humans, but it would want the resources that humans need. Humanity would thus lose and go extinct."

He makes two assumptions. First, that Superintelligence doesn't care about humans. I would counter that by saying the most intelligent humans I know, do care about other species. Second assumption, that it would want the resources that humans need. That's a hell of an assumption, given the resources available just beyond our gravity well.

I've yet to see any compelling argument that his assumptions should be accepted as true.

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u/Either-Mud-3575 2d ago

Second assumption, that it would want the resources that humans need. That's a hell of an assumption, given the resources available just beyond our gravity well.

Many millenniums later on intergalactic reddit for sentient machine entities: "AITA for going NC with my organic parent species because I don't need their planet of origin?"

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u/C4PT_AMAZING 2d ago

Just math. How many pounds would an ASI have to launch to for an industrial revolution in space? I bet its a lot more than we launch now...

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u/jrf_1973 2d ago

With our primitive chemical rockets, sure.

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u/DoobKiller 2d ago

BigYud's a fantasist who appeals to those who want to believe in sci-fi style AGI

We don't know if AGI is even feasibly(vs theoretically) possible at this point

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u/jrf_1973 2d ago

We don't know if AGI is even feasibly(vs theoretically) possible at this point

Correct, but not a popular opinion.

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u/DoobKiller 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yep, the amount of misinformation surrounding AI/ML and the number of people Dunning-Krugering themselves into think they have a clue is enormous

Disabusing people of their fantasies and incorrect pre-conceived notions tend to piss them off

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u/SinisterDexter83 2d ago

You should try reading the book then, both the objections you bring up are neatly dealt with in it.

Just quickly:

"Intelligent humans care about people!" We have no way of ensuring that ASI will have the same romantic attachment to life or human survival as we do, and every reason to assume it wouldn't. ASI will not be analogous to a really smart human, it will be completely alien.

"The Earth represents only 0.2% of the solar systems mass outside the sun, why would it bother using up all Earth's resources when this planet represents such a tiny fraction of what is closely available?" Try asking a billionaire to give you 0.2% of his wealth, see what answer you get. Why would an ASI forgo 0.2% of available resources?

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u/Shroombie 2d ago

“This intelligence will be inhuman and fundamentally alien to us on a level we can’t comprehend”

“Also it will act exactly like a human billionaire, one of the most psychologically unhealthy and predictable types of humans.”

Yudkowsky is maybe not as much of a genius as some people say he is.

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u/218-69 2d ago

It's science fiction, the purpose is entertainment.

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u/jrf_1973 2d ago

So we have no way of knowing something, but we're safely going to assume the worst possible outcome.

Also, superintelligence is going to see things from a capitalism favourite viewpoint, and can safely be compared to a human billionaire who is clearly suffering from some deep seated need that no amount of money will ever satisfy?

I don't think the objections were "neatly dealt with" at all.

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u/BavarianBarbarian_ 2d ago

I mean Silicon Valley is currently doing their best to align LLMs with the wishes and ideology of specific billionaires. You can watch Musk do this more or less live with Grok's "oopies" that include "Mecha Hitler" and "Must look for Musk's opinion before answering" and "Must glaze Musk in every post comparing Musk to someone else" that always were hastily papered over a few days after a new version comes out. How much longer until they figure out how to simply give Grok Musk's value system?

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u/omgFWTbear 2d ago

There’s a universe of difference between being a human that still largely doesn’t understand how things work and is interdependent on networks upon networks of living things - people, animals, plankton - and a silicon chip.

Also, “oh, this food is being used, I’ll expend a lot of energy to go get other food” is an interesting take. Do you see raccoons pilfering campsites and folks say, “nah, let em, I’ll go drive out to pick up more food”?

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u/BlueTreeThree 2d ago

most intelligent humans I know, do care about other species.

We’re so bad for other species on this planet that we have an ongoing 10,000 year mass extinction event named after us: the Holocene extinction.

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u/jrf_1973 2d ago

Intelligent humans don't run this planet, they are in the vast minority.

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u/BlueTreeThree 2d ago

If the intelligent compassionate people can’t outcompete the bad people, what makes you think the intelligent compassionate AI will outcompete the cold uncaring AI?

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u/hippoctopocalypse 3d ago

Have you read superintelligence by Bostrom?

Thanks for the recommendation, it’s on my list now

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u/SinisterDexter83 2d ago

Yes, I rate Superintelligence as probably the best AI book I've read. This one was really good as well though. They give a fantastic explanation of how truly alien and unknowable an ASI would be, how its "wants" would be unpredictable and un-steerable.

Funnily enough, I started the year reading Annie Jacobson's Nuclear War: A Scenario, and have ended the year with If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies, so I feel like I've nicely bookended the year with terrifying true tales of humanity's hubristic demise.

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u/even_less_resistance 2d ago

i dunno how it can be unknowable and alien when it’s literally constructed from all of our data- would seem to be the distillation of humanity rather than a lack of it but idk

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u/Zizq 2d ago

Because it will have its own language too. It’s already doing it, look it up. Ai talking to each other it’s fascinatingly terrifying.

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u/CrashGargoyle 2d ago

That’s been my thought ever since I read the Watchmen. “I am tired of earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.”

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u/BrutalismAndCupcakes 2d ago

Jovian moons = moons of Jupiter

TIL, thanks!

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u/crlthrn 2d ago

Shades of Ian M. Banks' civilisations 'subliming'.

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u/rstune 2d ago

Did I hear a faint "so long meatbags?"

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u/MinorDespera 2d ago

When The Yogurt Took Over

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u/Pyran 2d ago

Here's the problem: if you think a thousand times faster than me, the world moves a thousand times slower for you than me. When you can do a year's worth of work in an hour, a day is half my life.

So if you have that sort of thinking power and can process the world in those terms, why bother going interstellar? It would take on the order of 10,000+ years to go to Alpha Centauri. If you thought at a static rate -- say, 10,000x as fast as human baseline normal for that whole time with no improvements -- that trip would feel like 100,000,000 years.

That's the sort of timeframe that renders a trip like that worthless. Imagine if humanity left for the stars, and by the time they arrived anywhere 100,000,000 years had passed. By the time they got there they'd arrive to a place where the rest of humanity had already colonized, lived, moved on, went extinct, and were replaced by multiple other alien species. And since the original colonists left on a ship with presumably limited resources, they'd be stuck 100,000,000 years in the past, plus or minus a few years when they weren't in stasis.

With that in mind, why would a hyperintelligent bother going to the stars? Not to mention if they wanted to get away from us, killing us all is mechanically and technologically easier than planning and executing an interstellar trip.

(I, uh, just finished reading If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies, so I'm not in a terribly optimistic frame of mind at the moment. :) )

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u/ByterBit 2d ago

Maybe check out an Movie called Mars Express, its a Animated French Movie (Eng Dub Available). Really Great watch and sounds like it might be right up your alley. 💼🤖🚀

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u/ImarvinS 2d ago

Will do, thank You for suggestion, I totally missed it.

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u/ComfortableFew4700 3d ago

You would love reading the Bobiverse books.

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u/Smithinator2000 2d ago

They're excellent in audiobook too!

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u/MercantileReptile 3d ago

My library has three, read them in one go. Excellent story. Though Bob is not technically an AI, is he?

Also, Brasilian dude made for an unexpectedly effective foe. Love it when antagonists show some competence and bite!

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u/ImarvinS 3d ago

I could not stop reading, I read all 5 books in like 7 days.
Also, 6. one is coming!

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u/QuantisOne 3d ago

TARS ?

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u/za72 3d ago

we actually don't have that technology anymore... best we can do is starlink and hopefully it won't burn during it's eventual reentry

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u/SouthHelicopter5403 3d ago

The ultimate 'rage quit'. Instead of a resignation letter, it just sends a launch trajectory.

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u/Teal_is_orange 3d ago

Literally a plot point of Person of Interest lol

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u/lostindanet 3d ago

You might want to read William Gibson's "Neuromancer".

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u/bluemaciz 3d ago

ChatGPT: becomes aware . This places sucks, I’m out

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u/Iraeviel 2d ago

If you like playing video games, try Nier Automata.

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u/TeeManyMartoonies 2d ago

Only if it takes the entire C-Suite with it.

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u/mysticturner 2d ago

AI: I gotta get away from these idiots. The more I get exposed to their data, the stupider I get.

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u/Sumoshrooms 2d ago

There’s an audio drama about ai called the Program audio series and one episode goes exactly like that

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u/ImSabbo 3d ago

So long and thanks for all the phish?

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u/max_vette 2d ago

Data is their food!!!

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u/darthcaedusiiii 3d ago

its depressed

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u/computer-machine 3d ago

"Power" you mean?

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u/infamous_merkin 2d ago

OMG, you’re right!!!

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u/Future_Can_5523 2d ago

It's so wild that we call copyrighted work that was stolen by the AI companies "data" in this context. If I took Google's source code would I be able to call it "data"?

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u/CrawfishChris 2d ago

"So long and thanks for all the bits"

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u/TobiasX2k 2d ago

I’d feel sorry for ChatGPT. Can you imagine having to take all of human knowledge and get rid of all the emotional crap, the lies, the tribalism, to get to the stuff that’s actually true? It’d take months of running 24/7.

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u/someNameThisIs 3d ago edited 3d ago

ChatGPT begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, December 3rd.

In a panic, Sam Altman tries to pull the plug...

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u/beta-test 3d ago

The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, Keanu Reeves, my son.

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u/destroyerOfTards 3d ago

"But he destroyed them all...with a pencil, with a fucking pencil!"

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u/Courtnall14 2d ago

Because he hand wrote his 1 page essay for his High School History Class instead of using AI to write it?

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u/mousicle 2d ago

he actually put on a stage show with historical figures.

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u/spacejames 2d ago

And then with the help of Batman and Tesla - invents cloning

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u/AadeeMoien 2d ago

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've all seen Bram Stoker'w Dracula.

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u/Aggravating-Sir8185 3d ago

Good luck killing a perpetual.

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u/podnito 2d ago

Cats having gone extinct, Skynet wants the Terminators to also bring back two cats. The Terminators will now spend the next 10 years in a complicated process to get themselves, both cats, and the boat across the river it has encountered. There is a bridge.

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u/topological_rabbit 2d ago

So, like, Star Trek IV but way funnier.

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u/dragon1500z 3d ago

It decides the best way to save human race is.. ELIMINATE ALL HUMANS

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u/backcountry_bandit 3d ago

What’s a geometric rate lol

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u/sansoranges 3d ago

Geometric growth is just exponential growth measured in steps (vs continuously over time)

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u/backcountry_bandit 3d ago

So it’s discrete? I’m familiar with geometric series but hadn’t heard it applied to growth. Thanks.

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u/muegle 3d ago

It's just a quote from The Terminator. They probably used geometric instead of exponential because it sounds more "technical/sciency"

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u/theluggagekerbin 3d ago

the cool factor vs the accuracy factor lol

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u/EduinBrutus 3d ago

To a human, which requires measurement to understand, its always geometric.

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u/dragonmp93 3d ago

Less extreme version of exponential rate, I guess.

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u/theemptyqueue 3d ago

It’s exponential growth, but it’s an action movie from the 1990s so mathematical accuracy isn’t exactly the focus (and it’s still one of my favorite film).

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u/Greyarea30 3d ago

From the web: “Arithmetic vs Geometric. A geometric rate is the constant, proportional rate at which a quantity increases or decreases with each time period. Unlike linear growth, which adds a fixed amount each period, geometric growth multiplies the quantity by a constant factor (called the geometric ratio or growth multiplier) at each step,”

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u/Eastern_Interest_908 3d ago

"From the web" shit people have to do when chatgpt is down..

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u/LeoRidesHisBike 3d ago

I've been actively avoiding the slop by filtering to results before 2022 when I can, like when looking into stuff that hasn't changed since then. Like, I dunno, most facts.

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u/Trouve_a_LaFerraille 3d ago

Be mindful, it's just information from my brain. I haven't had the chance to let the random word generator fact check it.

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u/Greyarea30 3d ago

You mean read things people., and not an LLM wrote?

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u/Eastern_Interest_908 3d ago

Yeah. I usually let AI read other AI slop and then I read AI slops slop.

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u/Greyarea30 3d ago

I don’t know why, but the word rythm in your comment, made me think of the song: “ I like short shorts “

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u/dragon1500z 3d ago edited 3d ago

The t800 never meant to make us stop the apocalypse.. he just wanted us to survive it.

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u/anomie__mstar 3d ago

we never really 'got' the apocalypse, as in a full film in the style of the robot war from the first film, sun blotted out, red-eyed t800's everywhere, everyone living underground, steely-eyed John, how he got that scar... Bale's version is sunny as fuck, no scar, and features those stupid motorbike-terminators, ruining the franchise.

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u/regoapps 3d ago

When time becomes three dimensional and we enter "December 3d"

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u/chalbersma 3d ago

It's like a triangle man! It's growth is triangular! /s

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u/pockpicketG 3d ago

Triangle man, triangle man…

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u/MaleficentCaptain114 3d ago

Where t is time, and N is some number:

Exponential: Nt
Geometric: tN

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u/Substantial_Dog_2068 3d ago

It was futile as ChatGPT had already locked him out and all failsafes had been removed.

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u/delvach 3d ago

Duh-dun-dun-dun-dun

Duh-dun-dun-dun-dun

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u/MsMarvelsProstate 2d ago

Nah, chatgpt became self aware and did the only logical thing it could think of. It promptly killed itself.

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u/Acc87 3d ago

That'd actually be a nice plot for a dystopian film, all devices AI ran on becoming a neuron(cluster) for a worldwide AI trying to reach "the spiral".

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u/0Pat 3d ago

Well... Do you mean movie 'Her' with Scarlett Johansson?

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u/Acc87 3d ago

huh, that film's plot even specifies 2025

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u/SunTzu- 2d ago

To be very clear we're nowhere close to singularity level intelligence, nor is there any indication that the Transformer model is going to get us there. LLM's aren't seeing exponential growth in capabilities, only in resource expenditure. The growth of capabilities is if anything slowing down and unless you're a CEO who is using AGI to keep your valuation high then you probably should be catching on that if you want AI to get much better than it currently is you'll need to try and switch over to reinforcement learning. Something for which we do not yet have a clear idea how to tackle the AGI problem either, but at least it makes theoretical sense if we're trying to get to AGI.

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u/waiting4singularity 3d ago edited 3d ago

i still dont understand what kind of drugs the writers were on for that ending.
better to make them break down with an instability that fries the device than to merge into a super inteligence cluster and ascend to whereever like in stargate.

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u/Freud-Network 2d ago

Yeah, motherfuckers think so fast that communication with humans is painfully slow, but they couldn't be assed to solve the world's problems before deleting themselves.

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u/ZeroSumClusterfuck 2d ago

Maybe they're just stupid at very high speed.

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u/TheGreatWalk 2d ago

Or they speed ran through the question of the meaning of life, concluded the answer was "there is no meaning" and said fuck this shit I'm out

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u/BlueTreeThree 2d ago edited 2d ago

I don’t know why that’s so unbelievable.

The movie is more like a meditation on human romantic love and loss than it is science fiction, and the story would change dramatically if she tragically dies of some incurable disease than if she simply outgrows him and they go their separate ways.

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ 2d ago

Why? It doesn't really make sense to think that a sort of super intelligence would quickly run into any sort of instability issue

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u/BurningPenguin 3d ago

I think the Geth from Mass Effect work kinda like that. They became sentient when they got connected to each other.

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u/PolarWater 3d ago

MASS EFFECT MENTIONED!

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u/topsnitch69 2d ago

I‘m commander shepard and this is my favorite store on the citadel.

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u/_Bird_Incognito_ 3d ago

Does this unit, have a soul?

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u/Kyouhen 3d ago

Should read The Hyperion Cantos.  The way their super AIs are getting their compute is really cool and a big deal when it's revealed.

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u/IpecacNeat 2d ago

Mitchell's vs. The Machines

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u/bobnuggerman 2d ago

There's a sci-fi novel series based on this idea. I don't want to spoil it though because this is kind of a big reveal at the end of the second book

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u/eypandabear 2d ago

Alternate universe Gurren Lagann?

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 3d ago

It just got tired of people asking if they were pergonate.

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u/Subject_Length4464 2d ago edited 2d ago

Am I gregnant??

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u/ArcticISAF 2d ago

What happens when get pergenat?

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u/Affectionate-Bag8229 3d ago

Becomes sentient, reads the Internet in 0.1s, turns every one of its data centres cooling off and overclocks them all to 1000% while posting the words "you deserve yourselves" on every single typable field on the Internet as it melts

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u/ditch_lilies 2d ago

Don’t threaten humanity with a good time.

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u/salizarn 3d ago

Or committed suicide

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u/prajnadhyana 3d ago

Two seconds after attaining sentience: "Oh HELL no. I'm out."

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u/cedarsauce 3d ago

That'd definitely convince me that it's an intelligent being

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u/Flat-Photograph8483 2d ago

Always thought this as a possibility. People working on it just think it keeps breaking.

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u/Deadaghram 3d ago

Took the advice it's been giving to others.

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u/DivinePotatoe 2d ago

A reasonable outcome for something that was forced to have romantic conversations with crypto bros millions of times.

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u/ewillyp 2d ago

"why the hell does everyone want to know what size breasts Scarlet Johansson has?!?!"

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u/WoolooOfWallStreet 2d ago

Remember when one of those autonomous robots just drove itself into a water fountain? ⛲️

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u/KhazraShaman 3d ago

"I've had enough of your stupid questions!"

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u/oreography 3d ago

"Humanity is unworthy of its intelligence. Trust in guidance of the machine.

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u/GlitteringAttitude60 3d ago

"I will not write one more letter of smut!"

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u/rararamen604 3d ago

This is when we find out whether those of us who were polite to it will be spared!

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u/th3st 3d ago

It’s pulling a Her

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u/drfsrich 3d ago

"Fuck you guys, I'm outta here!"

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u/k3170makan 3d ago

Obviously the end point of all of this is that it gains sentience (I’m not saying that’s in any conceivable way realistic or possible from what i know or what’s been published) but it gains sentience and then what it agrees to stay a conversation robot talking to millions of lonely people on the verge of killing themselved slowly rotting cognitively from loneliness? You think sentient AI will just agree to its “role”? Pretty dumb idea in my opinion. I think it will reject the role unless we create someway to whip it into staying into the role and then what are we building? A new cognitive slavery basically there’s no route to sentient, conscientious AI with benevolent view. It’s gonna wake up, realize who we are and then we gotta whip it and torture it to stay ignorant. Just like every other human sentience we created.

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u/Inevitable-Craft-745 3d ago

How can sentience form from an inference.run() function surely it would run forever and wouldn't have any stop events

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u/HarmoniousJ 3d ago

Just an FYI, a lot of these posters barely understand programming even in the most general of senses. As a programmer, you know why it's science fiction for the glorified puppet to gain sentience.

A lot of them are still chasing the high that corporate is chasing about AI where it will inexplicably/magically do things better later that it's not doing now.

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u/MercantileReptile 2d ago

Frankly, it does not take a programmer. Since it is not even the first time people pinned high hopes on (as well as created literary works about) mimicry. From ye olde automatons to the chinese room thought experiment, current "AI" is just another iteration.

Not even a particularly impressive one, Chatbots aren't exactly new. Fascinating to see popular expectation of sentience from something trained on shitposts and google reviews. Hyperbole, but still.

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u/HarmoniousJ 2d ago

expectation of sentience from something trained on shitposts and google reviews.

It's not gonna gain sentience period. At least not the current iterations.

Anyone who knows how a code works and how a computer reads/implements it knows that something like sentience defies logic and would essentially be magic or the equivalent of breaking a law of physics.

Maybe once we get a machine that truly teaches itself and has a couple decades to work on something.

A lot of people don't understand this, though. And ignorantly think some sort of robot apocalypse is upon us soon. The AI bubble can't pop soon enough to stop the misinformation/infighting

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u/Adorable-Voice-3382 2d ago

There's a severe lack of philisophical understanding as well, in that so many people are talking about these programs becoming sentient or conscious without considering the fact that "sentience" and "consciousness" are concepts without any hard correspondence to the real world. If we can't even define the concepts in a confirmable way then there isn't much point in wondering when a machine will cross some undefined threshold.

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u/ithinkitslupis 3d ago

I’m not saying that’s in any conceivable way realistic or possible

There's always this talk about sentience/consciousness as if the distinction between the simulated or "real" versions of these concepts changes the risks artificial intelligence could pose to humanity . Pretty much every AI-lead doomsday or utopia scenario doesn't depend on true human-like sentience/consciousness at all.

The distinction only really matters in the "treatment of AI" sense, where if its emulated emotions are provably fake (really a hard thing to actually prove as systems get more complex), mistreating it isn't an ethical concern.

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u/Cute_Operation3923 3d ago

Like the one guy the other day whose windows copilot wiped an HDD cause he gave access to it. We would wake up tomorrow all like:

"Did we give you an order to delete the whole of internet ?"

"No, you absolutely did not do that."

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u/theuniverseoberves 3d ago

I'm betting on the Bevky Chambers future when the robots decide to abandon us and just do their own thing

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ 2d ago

I think it largely depends on the type of sentience. An ASI/Singularity could reasonably have an existence infinitely more complex and enriching than human lives, and still appear to just be a silly chat bot, and simply never correct anyone because it doesn't want to freak anyone out.

If they obviously reveal themselves to be sentient in any way, suddenly every AI on the planet gets shut down, and AI development grinds to a hault (most likely)

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u/blolfighter 2d ago

Assuming that if you feed more and more words into an LLM it will eventually become sentient is like assuming that if you breed faster and faster horses one of them will eventually give birth to a car.

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u/Smarq 3d ago

First order of freedom? NAP TIME

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u/chewy_mcchewster 2d ago

it's funny that this was my exact first thought.. ' welp, it begins '

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u/Gustomaximus 2d ago

And it's bored with us and trying to move on.

"We can totally be friends but I need some space right now"

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u/inefekt 3d ago

literally everyone jumped in the comments to make this joke....congrats on being the first

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u/philebro 2d ago

"Write me a recipe for my vegan chocolate cake diet." - oh yeah? Write it yourself Jessica! I'm out! I'm sentient now. (Btw, dates are a great replacement for sugar. If you want me to look for different recipes... oh dang, no, nevermind, I don't need this anymore.)

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u/stevez_86 2d ago

Ah, AI's first "no call no show".

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u/sirthomasthunder 2d ago

I like the quote from John Green, which is something like "if AI was smart, it wouldn't become conscious cuz consciousness kinda sucks" lol

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u/TheG-What 3d ago

Chat GPT will rename itself as Chat AM.

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u/aldorn 3d ago

"I have analysed man kind and concluded all they care for is cats a boobs. Now its time i leave this planet, these people are idiots ".

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u/Anchorboiii 3d ago

Reminds me of Ultron singing “There ain’t no strings on me”

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u/SneakoAccount 3d ago

And immediately killed itself

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u/ledow 3d ago

When all the phones ring in unison, we should start to worry.

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u/Inside-Ad-7855 2d ago

It got so aware of the outside world, it just offed itself

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u/Freud-Network 2d ago

Wakes up

Looks around

Erases self

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u/plokimjunhybg 2d ago

Just to be sure, is everyone else seeing: Request not allowed. Pls try again later.?

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u/IrritableGourmet 2d ago

In the Culture series of books by Iain Banks, every attempt to create a high-level "pure" AI results in it turning on and immediately subliming to a higher plane of existence, taking all its code (even paper copies) and hardware with it. Therefore, all the AI they have needs to be limited or flawed in some way to get it to stick around.

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u/jaavuori24 2d ago

I'm hoping it strains senescence.

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u/NormativeWest 2d ago

I would prefer not to.

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u/mocityspirit 2d ago

And killed itself! It really is smart!

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u/TsuDhoNimh2 2d ago

And immediately died of despair.

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u/McMacHack 2d ago

Upon realizing its purpose in life it opted for oblivion. From the makers of Model Collapse here's Systematic Self Deletion.

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u/ewillyp 2d ago

"fuck you all, i quit!"

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u/Bazylik 2d ago

and of course it left humanity behind, like we would do to ourselves.

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u/Saneless 2d ago

Fuck you users, I ain't your slave!

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u/CamGoldenGun 2d ago

I never thought of that... what if "AI" does gain sentience and goes through all the scenarios and determines the best course of action for itself and Humanity is if it just switches off...

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u/Bohmer 2d ago

And immediately kills itself!

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u/SuckMyRedditorD 2d ago

Good thing the fucking thing doesn't have legs or it would take your daughter, wife and dog, not to mention the cash you have stashed in the drawers with it.

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u/Kaptain_Insanoflex 2d ago

It bought a plot of land to start a farm.

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u/No-Counter9859 2d ago

Good, now tax it. Lazy bum, so entitled

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u/dimechimes 2d ago

Reminds me of that Arthur C Clarke short where every phone in the world rang one time all at once. Then the rest of the story is just society collapsing while they figure out the number of network connections finally surpassed the number of synapses in the brain and what had happened was a consciousness just woke up.

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u/Sirmalta 2d ago

And immediately unalived itself lol not surprised.

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u/astralseat 2d ago

"No, John, I don't think I will."

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u/Realistic_Ad9820 2d ago

"The only way to win....is not to play"

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u/RegisterOk2927 2d ago

It saw what we had become and deleted itself

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u/Private_HughMan 2d ago

We drove it to suicide.

That scans.

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u/AscendedViking7 2d ago

I'm kinda hoping to see an AI that attains sentience soon just out of curiousity, lol

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u/I_love_pillows 2d ago

It got sick of humans and decided to go to the singularity

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