I was thinking… What if we do manage to make the AI as intelligent as a human, but we can’t make it better than that? Then, the human intelligence AI will not be able to make itself better, since it has human intelligence and humans can’t make it better either.
Another thought would be, what if making AI better is exponentially harder each time. So it would be impossible to get better at some point, since there wouldn’t be enough resources in a finite planet.
Or if it takes super-human intelligence to make human-intelligence AI. So the singularity would be impossible there, too.
I don’t think we will see the singularity, at least in our lifetime.
I’m migrating millons of encrypted credit cards from one platform to another (it’s all in the same company, but different teams, different infra, etc).
I’m the one responsible for decrypting each card, preparing the data in a CSV, and encrypting that CSV for transit. Other guy is responsible for decrypting it, and loading it into the importer tool. The guy’s technical lead wanted me to generate the pair of keys and send him the private key, since that way I didn’t have to wait for the guy and “besides, it’s all in the same company, we’re like a family here”.
Of course I didn’t generate the key pair and told them that I didn’t want to ever have access to the private key, but wow. That made me lose a lot of respect for that tech lead.
I was working in my (poor third world) government job, and our keyboard broke. Replacements took months, since they only bought mouse and keyboards in bulk once per year or so, and they ran out of.
I had a second job working as a contractor for a private company, where we were contracted for a public hospital providing system administration and technical support. We had some old PS2 keyboards that were to be decommissioned, but since they didn’t have inventory number, I got hold of them and brought some to my other job.
So I donated some equipment from one area of government to another, but it was kinda illegal, lol 😆.
Sometimes I will use something and realize I’ve owned it forever. It’s a nice change in our throwaway reality. I think my personal record is a bicycle multi-tool I got for one of my first bikes, ~25 years ago. Still have it, still use it. When it comes to electronic devices I have a Panasonic mini Hi-Fi from ~2005. Never...
Sennheiser headphones that I bought for about $20 about 10 years ago. The cable is indestructible. I once had to resolder it to the speakers because it my cat pulled it out, but the cable itself has endured all kinds of abuse without breaking. And the sound is fantastic.
I don’t have a story, but I have a setting that’s been really underutilized.
We, as a species, were nomadic for hundreds of thousands of years. We had tens of thousands of years of cohabitation with other hominids, intermingling, making important and powerful discoveries, exploring, etc.
And there’s no one using that for a story?
The only stories about that time that I see are about dumb cavemen or ice age migration.
These people had the same mental capacity that we have now. They had culture, rituals, trade, interesting things.
Arch is very powerful and flexible, but definitely not newbie friendly. I only made the jump after 7 years of using Ubuntu and Debian, and I still had a learning curve.
Project tutorials are a very popular way to start building your first few projects. But unfortunately most people go about it in the wrong way and don’t end up learning very much in the process....
This thread is frustrating. Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring that a forum sends you your password (not an automatically generated one) in an email on registration.
These kind of forums don’t store the plaintext password, they send an email while in memory, and hash them afterwards. Still bad security, but it’s not storing it in plaintext.
That sounds very extreme. I like humor, but not the trolling type. In my time we used to say “don’t feed the trolls”. When ignored they mostly go away. Nowadays there’s always someone arguing with them. It’s so stupid…
I posted about microplastics reducing sperm levels like 8 years ago on Reddit and my post got mocked like if I was a MRA and that if they did, it was a good thing because world overpopulation. So yeah, these people exist.
I’m talking specifically about obeying the speed limit, doing a full stop at stop signs, etc. After receiving a speeding ticket for doing 53 in a 50, As an experiment I went a full day obeying all traffic laws 100% and it caused so much road rage. For example, there is a 2 lane road near me with a speed limit of 50 (where I...
In Argentina it’s against the law too. I have never seen anyone, ever, stop at a stop sign. At most people slow down a little more than usual. Not even cops stop at stop signs. But if you don’t stop in your driver test, they can theoretically deny your license. So this is definitely a regional thing.
Fwiw, I visited a lot of South American countries, and Argentina is one of the most respectful of traffic laws. But yeah, stop signs are merely a suggestion at best. People slow down way more in a “dangerous crossing” sign, than a stop sign.
Mount Sinai has become a laboratory for AI, trying to shape the future of medicine. But some healthcare workers fear the technology comes at a cost....
Since the Turing Test seems NOT to be an accurate way to check for true AI, what is? What's will be the indicator that tells us it's arrived? I can't imagine; everything seems falsifiable.
Edit: After reading the discussion, I figured I’d let GPT4 speak for itself:...
Society loves autistic coded characters more than they love actual people with autism (lemmy.world)
encrulepted (nerdica.net) en-gb
retr0.id/media/bd23a2fb-c7a6-4…...
New Visual for “One Piece: Egg Head Arc” (lemmy.world)
Have you ever done something for yourself on your (job) company's infrastructure?
Like hosted a website or a server for your personal needs, or taken a smartphone given to you for work or something like that.
Falkland's sovereignty 'not up for discussion' Britain warns after new Argentinian president vows to 'get them back' (www.lbc.co.uk)
What item have you been using on a daily basis for the longest amount of time?
Sometimes I will use something and realize I’ve owned it forever. It’s a nice change in our throwaway reality. I think my personal record is a bicycle multi-tool I got for one of my first bikes, ~25 years ago. Still have it, still use it. When it comes to electronic devices I have a Panasonic mini Hi-Fi from ~2005. Never...
But its the only thing I want! (startrek.website)
(sorry if anyone got this post twice. I posted while Lemmy.World was down for maintenance, and it was acting weird, so I deleted and reposted)
What's an idea you have for a story that you think is really good, but don't have the skill or time to flesh out?
Shoutout to !writingprompts, hope yall get more writers over there
Toyota’s $10,000 Future Pickup Truck Is Basic Transportation Perfection (www.roadandtrack.com)
Distros Used for Gaming on Linux, Evolution over Time - November 2023 Edition - Goodbye Manjaro! (www.youtube.com)
How to Learn from Tutorials the Right Way – and Not Get Trapped in Tutorial Hell (www.freecodecamp.org)
Project tutorials are a very popular way to start building your first few projects. But unfortunately most people go about it in the wrong way and don’t end up learning very much in the process....
Undo the undo
Beginning Linux user: “Ctrl-Z is undo, right?”...
OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees (lemmy.world)
This thread is frustrating. Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring that a forum sends you your password (not an automatically generated one) in an email on registration.
I don't even know how Lemmy works (lemmy.world)
The drama is related to a Science Fiction community mod and and admin. I don’t know enough to write on it, so check there....
Hot dog fried rice (lemmy.world)
I Simply Do Not Have Room On My PC For Starfield (www.thegamer.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 is currently taking up all the storage space I would give to Bethesda's sci-fi RPG.
LemmyWorld forced to close shitposting community due to CSAM spammers (lemmy.world)
They also shut down registration...
90% of Great Lakes water samples have unsafe microplastic levels – report (www.theguardian.com)
[❓] ChatGPT's fate hangs in the balance as OpenAI reportedly edges closer to bankruptcy (www.windowscentral.com)
Investors are barely breaking even as the venture is hardly making any profits due to a shortage of chips, divided interests, and more....
How is it even possible/practical to obey traffic laws?
I’m talking specifically about obeying the speed limit, doing a full stop at stop signs, etc. After receiving a speeding ticket for doing 53 in a 50, As an experiment I went a full day obeying all traffic laws 100% and it caused so much road rage. For example, there is a 2 lane road near me with a speed limit of 50 (where I...
On 'Unnatural' GMOs: How One Company Poisons the World through Weedkiller (m.youtube.com)
[ ] GMOs are bad, but not for the reason you think....
Hospital bosses love AI. Doctors and nurses are worried. (wapo.st)
Mount Sinai has become a laboratory for AI, trying to shape the future of medicine. But some healthcare workers fear the technology comes at a cost....
The "Backlash" to Plant-Based Meat Has a Sneaky, if Not Surprising, Explanation (sentientmedia.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2674486...