AGI is not in reach. We need to stop this incessant parroting from tech companies. LLMs are stochastic parrots. They guess the next word. There's no thought or reasoning. They don't understand inputs. They mimic human speech. They're not presenting anything meaningful.
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I feel like I have found a lone voice of sanity in a jungle of brainless fanpeople sucking up the snake oil and pretending LLMs are AI. A simple control loop is closer to AI than a stochastic parrot, as you correctly put it.
There are at least three of us.
I am worried what happens when the bubble finally pops because shit always rolls downhill and most of us are at the bottom of the hill.
Let's work 20 hour weeks then. Who wants AGI other than war pigs and billionaires?
WarPigs by Sabbath was about the future.
If it's in reach working 60 hour weeks, it's also on reach working 40 hour weeks, it will just take 1/3rd longer. ;)
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Hahaha
"Work 50% longer weeks so you can make something that'll both make me richer AND cost you your jobs!" is not the motivational speech he thinks it is.
Wait, are these AI boosters bragging about how close they are to building God the torture that Roko's Basilisk is inflicting on us all?
I don't even know what AGI is, and I read the headline as "rich disconnected from reality asshole".
Turns out I was right.
A General ignoramus
So he's saying it's not in reach then.
Anyone else feel hungry?
No, but lets go get some margaritas.
Slushy the rich?
If it can be reached in 60 hour work weeks it can be reached in 40, but nah mfs should rush to get themselves replaced
If it can be reached in 60 hour work weeks, then it can be reached in 40 hour work weeks be hiring a second person.
If management isn't willing to put the effort in of hiring the required staff, why would I want to work the job of 2 people for 1 persons pay?
IT project management doesn't work that way, but it doesn't matter much. 60 hour work weeks wouldn't help, either.
That's why I bake my cake at 2608°C for ~1,8 minutes, it just works™
You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
Project Manager here, and where I’m from it’s common knowledge that 9 women can have a baby in a month .
Or!—hear me out—one woman whose 8 co-gestators were just laid off by someone who doesn’t understand what their job was
Burnt crust full of liquid cake. yum!
Cake brulee
Or, y'know, he could hire 50% more programmers / contractors, instead of overworking his current staff
There's an upper limit to how many bodies you can throw at a task.
9 women won't make a baby in one month.
Yeah that'd be 9 babies
Equivalent to ~2 wobbly adults in trenchcoats for you metric users.
That wouldn't allow him to also simultaneously pay low wages.
What if you do more with less?
Then you wouldn't need to tell people to work more hours.
He isn't even using that head anyways, seems like some cost cutting is in order.
Lmfao
Yeah, Cloud Console would probably suck less too
lol, because if they work 40-hour weeks they might create it a couple of weeks later
Or, worse, they might actually have to hire enough people to actually do the job. Why hire 100 people with good work life balance, when you can hire 60 people that aren't allowed to have lives or families.
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This is almost too depressing to be funny.
They talk about AGI like it's some kind of intrinsically benevolent messiah that is going to come along and free humanity of limitations rather than a product that is going to be monetised to make a few very rich people even richer
It's a belief in Techno-Jesus that will solve all our problems so we don't have to solve them ourselves (don't need to do the uncomfortable things we don't want to). Just like aliens, the singularity, etc.
Ironically the world is full of people who like to think about solutions to problems. But those in power won’t put them to solve those because it’s not part of the political game.
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A liar, scam artist, and scumbag.
You know it's bad when I had to click all the way through to the body of the article to verify this isn't a The Onion thing. Do we still have a "Not The Onion" space here?
I hope they tell him to get fucked.
I'm pretty sure the science says it's more like 20-30. I know personally, if I try to work more than about 40-ish hours in a week, the time comes out of the following week without me even trying. A task that took two hours in a 45-hour "crunch" week will end up taking three when I don't have to crunch. And if I keep up the crunch for too long, I start making a lot of mistakes.
If you all work harder we’ll be able to fire you and increase my bonus!
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