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liquid's avatar

When I was a kid 2025 was the year of the singularity. If this article doesn't confirm that date I don't know what would.

That being said: Remember The joke at that start of COVID that was an exponential graph that read: "Time spent looking at exponential graphs"? If the curve continued we would all be dead by the end of 2020 or something. Exponentials have a way of rolling off in the real world.

This is showing that the acceleration in accelerating if my monkey brain understand it at all. Even if the acceleration slows we still have no idea where we will be by the end of it.

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James Linehan's avatar

As an AI expert, can you share insights on LLM benchmarks? They’re tough but often too "straightforward," unlike real-world problems. I’m on day three debugging an MP4 batch converter using a frontier model’s reasoning, and it feels like we need benchmarks that capture chaotic, human-like problem-solving (e.g., vague errors, shifting contexts). Any thoughts on existing or needed benchmarks for this? #AI #LLM #Benchmarks.

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ONeil E Provost's avatar

Do you have any sense that AI will be able to break crypto in the next 4 years?

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David Shapiro's avatar

I think that people have been preparing for this. "Quantum ready" encryption schemes, etc. I think quantum computing is likely a bigger threat, although people will point out "AI actually works" whereas QC has not yet taken off. Either way, people are working on it.

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liquid's avatar

Is Quantum Computing also an AI enabler? That would make it a double edged sword, right?

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David Shapiro's avatar

Time will tell. QC seems to be better at materials science and cryptography. But it could accelerate AI. Thermodynamic and photonic computing I think will be better for AI.

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George Shay's avatar

Has man created God in his image and likeness? Or is it a false idol?

Will it lead us into temptation or deliver us from evil, welcome us into a new Eden, or expel us into a living hell?

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Autism Capital's avatar

Agree with everything except the physics part, einstein's work on GR was less of him doing math and more of his ability to think bizarre yet correct ideas. Hilbert completed einstein's math faster than einstein. My point is math is not necessarily that important to huge discoveries in physics. Yes it's important but not the core for leapfrog ideas. Alot of time exotic math don't conform to our reality and many theories can't even be physically tested, on top of that logic doesn't seem to make sense in quantum mechanics.

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