I go with people who have proven trustworthy, rather than simply loyal like 
your Dem Media are to their pols. I do the same with Fox. 

On computation, I see much more impact than simply job loss as an impact. I 
look at the rapidity of progress outside the realm of quantum computing as 
amazingly fast, and it seems slower with QC. Medically we may be in for some 
amazing tech. Our big pharma friends are investing in GPT-4. I don't see Marvin 
Minsky's Guy in a Box and the best goal. I think just a fake intelligence that 
poops out innovations is totally fine with me! If I want to speak to a human 
level intelligence I will chat with my wife. If I want a better solar energy + 
battery system I will ask GPT-4. I am sure that it will be strictly for paying 
customers.  To this end here is a GPT 2+3/4 ths' mockup. 
Feel free to ask this network anything you like. I tend to go for the 
technological.  This is a semantic engine so play with the words and see if you 
get a interesting result from this computerized magic 8-Ball? Happy hunting...
https://6b.eleuther.ai/

All the best,The Evil Trumpkin

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From: John Clark <[email protected]>
To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Sep 20, 2021 8:07 am
Subject: GPT-4 and Seed AI

spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote:


> My Trumpian amygdala has flat out taken my neocortex hostage. As we say in 
> Trumpville, Golly!  While you are undertaking that arduous task, you never 
> got a chance to address this impact question I submitted at the bottom of one 
> of my rants. 

That's probably because you throw so many garbage links into almost every post 
you write I've gotten in the habit of ignoring them 

> This is an article, and I'd like you opinion of the likely impact of GPT-4 on 
> research and development? I will re-supply the link.
https://towardsdatascience.com/gpt-4-will-have-100-trillion-parameters-500x-the-size-of-gpt-3-582b98d82253

This link was uncharacteristically interesting and reinforces my opinion that 
human level AI can't be very far away, and once that level has been achieved 
the attainment of superhuman AI can only take a few days more, perhaps only a 
few hours. I just don't see how we can be very far away from finding the seed 
algorithm that would allow computers to learn how to learn anything, because we 
already have an upper limit on how big that algorithm must be, and it's not 
very big. In the entire human genome there are only 3 billion base pairs. There 
are 4 bases so each base can represent 2 bits, there are 8 bits per byte so 
that comes out to just 750 meg, and that's enough assembly instructions to make 
not just a brain and all its wiring but an entire human baby. So the 
instructions MUST contain wiring instructions such as "wire a neuron up this 
way and then repeat that procedure exactly the same way 917 billion times". And 
there is a huge amount of redundancy in the human genome, so if you used a file 
compression program like ZIP on that 750 meg you could easily put the entire 
thing on a CD, not a DVD not a Blu ray just a old fashioned steam powered 
vanilla CD, and you'd still have room for a few dozen lady Gaga songs. And the 
thing I'm talking about, the seed learning algorithm for intelligence, must be 
vastly smaller than that, and that's the thing that let Einstein go from 
knowing precisely nothing in 1879 to becoming the first person to know General 
Relativity in 1915.
That's why I told you that whatever you do for a living it's only a matter of 
time, and not much time, before a machine can do your job better than you can. 
I always knew something like this would happen but I didn't think it would 
happen in my lifetime so I saw no need for an immediate change in my strict 
libertarian beliefs, but things have been developing much faster than I 
expected, and when new information becomes available an intelligent man must 
change his opinion. I'm still a libertarian with regard to social issues, but 
on economic matters not so much. It's just not rational to expect that the 
gargantuan and accelerating gap between the rich and the poor can continue 
indefinitely without causing a complete collapse of civilization. People just 
are not going to quietly starve to death, they are going to make a fuss. And 
that's also why I think all the worry Trump zombies have about Mexicans taking 
their jobs is ridiculous when the real problem is elsewhere. 

John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis
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