Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt runs the Special Competitive Studies Project, a non-profit vehicle for him to make excuses for the AI bubble industry. [SCSP.ai] Schmidt spoke at SCSP’s inaugural “AI…
Right, so the plan is to spend 20 years and 40 petawatt hours building a machine to answer the Great ℚuestion of what we should do about climate change. If it works, the answer will be “you should’ve stopped burning fossil fuels twenty years ago.”
Right, so the plan is to spend 20 years and 40 petawatt hours building a machine to answer the Great ℚuestion of what we should do about climate change. If it works, the answer will be “you should’ve stopped burning fossil fuels twenty years ago.”
“Oh no what do about all this waste heat?”
“Generate more waste heat”
Repeat until a machine that can create God is built. Then it’s God’s problem.
But it must be a US God, otherwise China wins.
The US god will team up with the Chinese god and the Russian god to beat the crap out of us.
Then the middle eastern god will blow up the indian utopia because he is bored and the british fungus space god will rule over the remains.
This was exactly what I had in mind but for the life of me I can’t remember the title.
Supergods by warren ellis i think.
Surprisingly close to the plot of Illuminatus!, isn’t it?
I was thinking “I have no mouth and I must scream”
The model will just go “42” on and on and it’ll be the first decent joke a neural network produces. It’ll be worth it in a way.
I could absolutely see an LLM telling us that 6 times 9 is 42 unless there’s special tinkering to prevent it.
“The answer is 34. Now here’s the schematics to build an even better computer to ask the right question.”