A gopher broke through my field last night and ate all my damn strawberries!
God I want this
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For me as a programmer it’s definitely the advent of LLMs like GPT-4 and the impending AGI.
If you think GPT has taken us meaningfully closure to AGI then I, er, have a drawing of an ape to sell you.
The top minds in the industry seem to think it’s a big step at the very least. It’s already proving to be more versatile than we ever expected.
There is hardly a concensus on that. There are supporters, sceptics, and marketing departments in very large company’s who have spent an awful lot of money on hype.
At best, it is far too early to tell.
GPT might not be a step towards AGI, but it proves that even non-general AI can be pretty strong and have a very wide range of applications.
An ability to form sentences does not imply intelligence.
What is AGI?
Artificial General Intelligence. Definitions vary, but in general it’s an AI system that can perform any task it’s given, usually with the caveat of being smarter than humans.
Enh. The big ones are things like affordable sous vide machines or molecular gastronomy or handheld POS tablets, but the most recent is the realization by restaurant owners that they can just slap a generic percentage charge on bills and menus and raise prices without having to visibly “raise prices”. Even if one in ten patrons ask to have it removed, that’s still free money.
I think it’s scummy as hell but I’m not longer allowed to give my opinion on it to patrons, I have a script I have to use.
I think it’s scummy as hell but I’m not longer allowed to give my opinion on it to patrons, I have a script I have to use.
All the greatest thespians improvise and go off-script. ;)
Electrical Engineer. I’d say GaN semiconductors. Much more efficient than traditional semiconductors and enabling pretty big leaps in power electronics.
Testing controls or getting a soc1 with cuec (complimentary controls) so I know that a company is correctly running its numbers after an audit.
Frauds get caught much sooner now.
