Exactly. Three years ago when funding intensified the promise was AGI. Now that it’s been made clear we’re not moving past really powerful LLMs anytime soon the gap between the promise and what was delivered needs to be corrected.

If AI was worthless there wouldn’t be headlines about it. Is it overhyped? Yes. Is it useless? Far from it.

What makes you so sure he’s smart?

Of course.

Nord as in the NordVPN Nord?

I have no idea what you are trying to say.

And that is why the collapse of current hype is inevitable.

Which isn’t happening. AI can be run autonomously for simple tasks, but not the complex ones which are actually what costs the most. The quality of LLM output depends on the quality of input. GIGO holds.

Any proton alternatives that are in EU and at least are not under the jurisdiction of 5 eyes?

I always thought that one day Linux would beat Windows. Now I see that this is impossible, and the only one who could defeat Windows is Windows itself.

Yeah, they made it a bit obfuscated after the predecessor got taken out for coming with batteries included. After adding the extensions you can set the spotify extension for search and Qobuz, Deezer for download.

Go to the search tab, paste in your spotify playlist link and it will pull everything in and then you can download.

My recommendation: https://mornye.com/

Supports multiple music services, use whichever service you want to find music, rip metadata from whichever has the most complete, then rip the music from whichever has the highest quality (yes, FLAC). Drop your spotify playlist and it will download all of it. The sublime embedding of lyrics and ReplayGain tags. My god, it even has a builtin player and library management, available on mobile and desktop.

A hammer makes a poor substitute for a knife & fork.

Most people don’t give a shit about ethics and the environment. They care about the well being of themselves, the well being those close to them, and their comfort, ABOVE ALL ELSE. even if they won’t admit it to themselves.

Delusional? I wish I was. Look at the last 30 years, how many protested to get climate change taken seriously? How many raised their voices against various human rights violations around the world? A drop in a bucket, that’s how many. Most people just don’t give a shit about anything that doesn’t affect them and it’s plain to see.

So yes, for majority of people, ethics and environmental destruction are “convenient shiny arguments” that make them feel good about themselves when they virtue signal them on social media and then forget about them 5min later.

Curse me all you want, the world of today is of our collective making.

They did, just on a smaller scale, and they used all games ever played by high-level players. LLMs and image generators were stealing data years before they became viable. And nobody gave a shit.

Let’s not pretend most people give a shit about ethics or the environment. Those were impacted long before AI became viable in any way. People hate on AI because it’s affecting everyday prices and employment. Ethics and environment are just convenient shiny arguments few actually stand behind.

If tomorrow billionaires turned around and said “actually, here’s UBI for everyone, provided by AI!”, most people would be cheering on intellectual theft and destruction of this earth, and call everyone still against it selfish and regressive.

And once again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5Uj4XIT1Y

There are people getting paid for it. So I guess it actually is at least for now.

Why would you pay for them when you can just generate them yourself for cheaper?

Everything you described would be a small improvement, not a leap towards AGI that is needed. That is why it isn’t being researched further. Massive investment for minimal gain.

What does it mean to think? This is a open-ended philosophical question and has any number of answers.

I completely agree with your 2nd and 3rd paragraph.

There are similarities and there are clear differences. The reason why we say LLMs are different from us is because we DO have general intelligence, LLMs have not displayed such capabilities despite the intense pressure to prove so. THIS is why we say LLMs couldn’t possibly be like us. Because evidence shows they aren’t, despite the similarities.

I would be interested to hear what developments in the last month you’re referring to, would be exciting to see a breakthrough.