Often in echo chambers you end up missing reality. This is why lots of money is being poured into AI and crazy claims have been made. We are starting to see the results.
Often in echo chambers you end up missing reality. This is why lots of money is being poured into AI and crazy claims have been made. We are starting to see the results.
I don't understand it enough to know why this is important, but people much smarter than me are blown away by it so I'm willing to accept that solving all these math problems is a big deal. I just hope we can solve the problem of gravity for Dr. Brand.
The cost to people makes AI suspect. If the use of AI can demonstrate an improvement in people’s lives, then it will be appreciated. Up until now, I’ve not seen anything that helps people. I have seen a few people get fabulously wealthy to the detriment of others. I have great hope for AI, but the use of AI needs to start producing something that will tangibly help people. Making cute videos is not tangibly beneficial to anyone other than the AI owner.
I’ve always wondered why people say this so much. How are you guys using AI? I have it basically automating my entire job at this point, helping with my treatment for sleep apnea and ocd (big improvement to both as a result), I’ve learned about hundreds of topics in detail, started projects I would never be able to before, general advice on anything such as fashion, oh and it also got me back 15k in tax credits because I qualified for things I never heard about, the list is endless.
People have been enjoying cute videos online well before AI was a thing. How are you saying they are not beneficial to anyone? Just because it’s entertainment it doesn’t mean it’s not beneficial.
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Over the next few years, AI will make many systems much easier and cost-efficient to hack... but once a new wave of vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed, over time, systems will become dramatically more difficult to hack. In other words, the "difficulty of hacking" graph is very likely going to look like a capital J: there will be an initial dip, then a steep rise as firms build better defenses. AI spam/phishing detection will likely improve too. These two things will make things like devastating cyberattacks on hospitals, large-scale information leaks, etc. less frequent in the long run.
AI doesn’t help much with domestic tasks unless it’s used for *learning how* to do a given domestic task. I’ve used it a lot in cooking, for example. For most people the only thing left is work tasks, and frankly AI has made most work far shittier than it even was previously. It may or may not increase company profits, but the fact is most of us use it to *keep up* rather than to *get ahead*. The other domain that AI could conceivably help us with is in research and technological advancement, but I think it’s failing on this front because the hard problems are legitimately too hard for it. I won’t take a position on whether LLMs can reason or not since it’s irrelevant, but for truly cutting edge problems (ie., the ones that matter) I think it’s at best a tool to help stir up creative thinking and enhance our own working memory etc. So not to sound pessimistic but I think LLMs put us in the unfortunate position where it does a great job at replacing the routine work while providing relatively little value to the work that’s going to push us forward. Basically it puts us in the position of having to confront the economic reality that most of us are going to add very little value to society while we simultaneously stagnate and gain very little to nothing in return. Cheers.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Admirable-Falcon-501: --- Often in echo chambers you end up missing reality. This is why lots of money is being poured into AI and crazy claims have been made. We are starting to see the results. While I already think AI has been really useful for a while now, the things it will be doing soon will convince everyone else that didn’t see it that way. Announcements like this will occur once a month, then once a week, and just not paid attention to altogether because it becomes commonplace. Of course it’s important that it’s done properly, with good alignment and broad access. I had to write this for the “rules” on this sub to fill space, downvote and move on. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1vcsl1y/ten_advances_in_mathematics_and_theoretical/p13lyws/
$200 per problem solved is the wildest part here, because up till now AI has always been viewed as ridiculously expensive to serve at a wide scale, but here we’re seeing it solve breakthrough problems at just a mere $200