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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 16 hours ago

I hope they tell him to get fucked.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Real AGI is a Guillotine that only removes the heads of dragons.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I don't get it.

Are you perhaps calling all of humanity a dragon?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Billionaires are often referred to as dragons because they horde wealth. A Guillotine that could know the difference and decide to only harm billionaires would be a technological marvel.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If you all work harder we’ll be able to fire you and increase my bonus!

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

If you all work harder we’ll be able to fire you FASTER and increase my bonus!

Fixed it for you

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 points 15 hours ago

A liar, scam artist, and scumbag.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 16 hours ago

maybe ai should work that extra time.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 16 hours ago

I thought Googlers were paid $500K+ and already worked 60-80 hours weeks?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 16 hours ago

What a brilliant suggestion, no way an AI could have come up with that, executive jobs are safe forever!

[–] LettucePrey@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

lmao, what a tool

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 points 13 hours ago

Lmfao

Yeah, Cloud Console would probably suck less too

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Is Google in the cloning business? Because I could swear that's Zack Freedman from the Youtube 3D printing channel. He even wears the heads-up display (Youtube Link). Sorry for being off-Topic but who cares about what tech CEOs say about AGI anyway?

[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago

...and the horse he road in on.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

What is the point, though?

If you made AGI, you'd have a computer that thinks like a person. Okay? We already have minds that think like a person: they're called people!

I get that there is some belief that if you can make a digital consciousness, you can make a digital super-conciousness, but genuinely stop and ask what the utility is, and it's equal parts useless and evil.

First, this premise is totally unexamined. Maybe it can think faster or hold more information in mind at one moment, but what basis is there for such a creation actually exceeding the ingenuity of a group of humans working together? What problem is this going to solve? A "cure for cancer"? The bottleneck to cutting cancer isn't ideas, it's that cell research takes actual time and money. You need it synthesize molecules and watch cells grow, and pay for lab infrastructure. "Intelligence" isn't the limiting element!

The primary purpose is just to crater the value of human labor, by replacing human workers with workers with godlike powers of reasoning. Good luck with that. I'm sure they won't come to the exact reasoning as any exploited worker in 120 nano-seconds.

It's like Jason's problem-solving advice in "The Good Place":

“Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail… Boom, right away, I had a different problem.”

Sure. Let's work ourselves to death forTHIS.

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

They’re all desperate that so much venture capital is being poured on this, so whoever promises more gets more money, and whoever has more money can bankrupt the rival. There’s no need for an actual AGI to ever exist here to win the game.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago

I don't think a device will ever have a thought. I find it somewhat akin to a belief in the anamism of objects, that it will aquire some form of life force of its own. What a thought is, is a complete mystery. Nobody knows why they happen, where they come from. So, who is even to determine whether an inamimate object is exhibiting signs of consciousness? There are some people that believe it, others are just running a con.

[–] bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

No. Dumbass.

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