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[–] baller_w@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

Worth a read if anyone is interested: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either

My favorite part is Anthropic has a bot in the cafeteria that orders what staff request and if the bank balance goes to zero or negative, then it loses and has to close up shop.

This far, nearly all employees have a 1” tungsten cube on their desk that some managed to get for free with a fake 100% off coupon.

It’s a fun experiment in what happens when these agents start doing things in the real world and I commend Anthropic for putting it on display. A real hype train killer.

As a technologist, I work with them all day, every day. I wouldn’t trust them to do my laundry without oversight, let alone run a business.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago
[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

Eh I was wondering whose turn was it to claim it this year. Turns out it is another guy who is balls deep invested in AI.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 117 points 1 week ago

Sure you do. It's not at all a transparent attempt to prolong the bubble.

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 85 points 1 week ago (15 children)

I only have a rather high level understanding of current AI models, but I don't see any way for the current generation of LLMs to actually be intelligent or conscious.

They're entirely stateless, once-through models: any activity in the model that could be remotely considered "thought" is completely lost the moment the model outputs a token. Then it starts over fresh for the next token with nothing but the previous inputs and outputs (the context window) to work with.

That's why it's so stupid to ask an LLM "what were you thinking", because even it doesn't know! All it's going to do is look at what it spat out last and hallucinate a reasonable-sounding answer.

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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 68 points 1 week ago (5 children)

LLMs aren't AI, let alone AGI.

They're fucking prediction engines with extra functions.

[–] Onihikage@piefed.social 35 points 1 week ago

The best description I've ever heard of LLMs is "a blurry jpeg of the internet". From the perspective of data compression and retrieval, they're impressive... but they're still a blurry jpeg. The image doesn't change, you can only zoom in on different parts of it and apply extra filters, and there's nothing you can truly do about the compression artifacts (what we call "hallucinations"). It can't think, it can't learn, it just is, and that's all it will ever be.

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[–] RedFrank24@piefed.social 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So why do we need Jensen Huang?

[–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly. CEO is maybe the easiest job for an AI to take over, so an AGI is possibly the most perfect candidate for that role.

Put up or shut up, tech bro CEOs. Replace yourself if it's so fucking amazing.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Just replacing one eco horror with another.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

Why do we need any of them? They've completed the job. All future plans cancelled.

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fridman, the podcast’s host, defines AGI as an AI system that’s able to “essentially do your job,” as in start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth more than $1 billion. He then asks Huang when he believes AGI will be real — asking if it’s, say, five, 10, 15, or 20 years away — and Huang responds, “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”

So we've achieved AGI in the sense that it could replace a nonsensical fart-sniffing clown, hyping a horde of morons into valuating a company at orders of magnitude its actual worth?

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you're a bullshitting con artist.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 10 points 1 week ago

Grifter gonna grift

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Geez. You can almost smell the desperation on this guy.

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[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I was a NVDA investor, I'd be worried. This clown is doing nothing but gaslighting and lying these days.

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

But you're wrong, you're all wrong!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 28 points 1 week ago

Average Gaslighting Idiot.

AKA "a CEO."

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago

Oh yes we have achieved AGI! But what we really need is Artificial General Super Intelligence! Just another trillion and it will be useful bro!

[–] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

No.. you haven’t.

[–] entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

These fuckers will claim whatever nonsense to keep themselves relevant enough to take on more debt before they collapse.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

They are going to create a success story where someone becomes a billionaire with an AI doing everything. Then idiots will chase that dream for a hundred years and fill these rich fucks bank accounts.

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[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

Literally the story above this in my feed is OpenAI shutting down expensive services 😂

You goofy goobers

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

This guy has completely lost the plot. I don't think it's possible to be even more disconnected from reality.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The Turing thing again, how good a system is at mimicking a human? Like, lot's of dog owners could swear; the dog is smarter than a cat. But dogs are only better at reading their human.

I'll believe him, if he let's the LLM do his job.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 13 points 1 week ago

Cats may be able to read their human just as well or better, but as they don't give a shit, there's no feedback to base anything on.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago

>You think you've achieved AGI
>I know you haven't

We are not the same

[–] GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 16 points 1 week ago

I just dropped an AGI down the toilet AMA

[–] kewjo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if agi then why still jobs?

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun fact: if true AGI were a thing, those AI programs would be people and not paying them for their work would be slavery.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is honestly one of the scarier parts about the rhetoric, they're basically implying they would happily enslave a sentient being.

[–] a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

In theory, you could imagine a totally unconscious intelligence, that can make intelligent decisions but has no conscious experiences / is not sentient. Of course I don’t know if such a system would be actually possible. But it is at least conceptually possible to separate the two ideas (consciousness/sentience vs intelligence)

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Guys i think i just found AGI in my gramp's old stuff.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

fart sniffer

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That man is a verbal slut. He will say anything.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe he's the AI? Hence why he just says shit investors want to hear.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Even the AI doesn't say as many bullshit things as he does. Though I guess if you gave it the instructions "say anything that might make the nvidia stock price go up" then an AI might say the bullshit he does.

You nailed it in the second half. The prompt is the most important part, if it's idiots prompting expect bullshit results.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

"my chatbot told me so!"

[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

His can we take this idiot seriously; slop DLSS, tgen telling us we are wrong about this (the buddy telling me what I prefer), then we achieved AGI...

How low can he falls?

How many R's are in strawberry?

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