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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/weinerwagner on 2024-01-22 22:14:58+00:00.

A google search shows a few trading bots already exist. Anyone tried one already? Success?

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Rare-Force4539 on 2024-01-23 03:27:54+00:00.

The first few weeks of 2024 have been pretty quiet so far and people are starting to get impatient. Predictions are getting pushed, AI winter is here, AGI is cancelled they say.

But is this really an accurate portrayal of the situation? The hype may be forgotten but it is not gone—it is primed to explode again as soon as the next big model drops. And now the whole world is watching, not just the nerds.

2024 is going to be the biggest year in the history of AI and civilization in general. January is just the quiet before the storm. Brace yourselves…

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Uchihaboy316 on 2024-01-22 15:22:27+00:00.

Original Title: PrivateAI.com is building an LLM for Longevity, using AI/ML to unlock value of longevity-related research, onboarded Marcello Mari of SingularityNET as Advisor at WEF Davos -- seeks scientific partners

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/xdlmaoxdxd1 on 2024-01-23 05:25:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/TFenrir on 2024-01-23 04:40:17+00:00.

... We first develop an automatic 3D spatial VQA data generation framework that scales up to 2 billion VQA examples on 10 million real-world images. We then investigate various factors in training recipe including data quality, training pipeline and VLM architecture. Our work features the first Internet-scale 3D spatial reasoning dataset in metric space. By co-training a VLM on such data, we significantly enhance its ability on both qualitative and quantitative spatial VQA. Finally, we demonstrate that this VLM unlocks novel downstream applications in chain-of-thought spatial reasoning and robotics due to its quantitative estimation capability.

Pretty cool read!

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/insanisprimero on 2024-01-23 02:49:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/ResponsiveSignature on 2024-01-23 00:58:08+00:00.

Original Title: Part of certain people's meaning of life is succeeding at the expense of others. Will AI simulate everyone having their own personal dynasty, or reframe our sense of meaning to one of universal endowment?

It is an invariable conclusion looking at the nature, behavior and desires of humans that there are many of us who have an innate desire to succeed over others, to dominate, be singled out for specialness, to have a sense of unique value, contribution and impact in the world. This varies from person to person, but I believe an element of it is universal.

When singularity arrives, a benevolent machine god would not confer more attention or reward to one human at the expense of another. Everyone will be at the whims of AI far smarter and more impactful than themselves. The era of humans having a unique value in the universe will be over. As a result, the choice becomes either:

1. Accept our irrelevance and simulate meaning via meaning/personal utility maximizing full dive VR that gives everyone a perfect feeling of belonging, unique value and impact
2. Assent to the natural evolution of agency in the universe and sacrifice one's individual mind/body to a post-human collective machine substrate. This will be essentially an "ascension" into a group-mind, and effectively death

I believe most people will feel that 2 is unnerving and wouldn't pick it right away. They'd think: "I'd rather live out all my deepest desires and biggest dreams in a perfectly meaningful simulation of world that tickles every sublime hope and possible configuration of ultimate meaning. After at least fulfilling those human desires, I could maybe retire to this level of transcendence. This will also be the only way I can experience my "unsafe" desires of conquering/dominating others in a simulated mirage of the world where nobody is hurt".

Consequentially most humans will likely opt-in to a simulated VR-scape for as long as their consciousness can be kept alive, then "transcend" to the infinite when they feel it is time. However, I can't imagine much of human society or the way we think things ought to be from a conventional 21st century perspective surviving either choice. The next 3 years will be everyone's last chance to experience reality as it is.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/IluvBsissa on 2024-01-23 00:40:56+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Lucky_Strike-85 on 2024-01-23 00:32:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/TheCryptoFrontier on 2024-01-22 23:35:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/tend0g on 2024-01-23 00:32:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/ImInTheAudience on 2024-01-23 00:07:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/ResponsiveSignature on 2024-01-22 23:16:19+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/boger45 on 2024-01-22 23:01:39+00:00.

So, i was reading through some posts on this subreddit and i've also seen alot of ai people talk about this before, why are people fantasizing so much about not having to work?

I feel like a ton of people are literally living to work because they just like it, if we had nothing to do what's even the point of living?

While many people hate their jobs there is still a ton of them that actually love what they're doing, if we took it away from them wouldn't it massively increase depression rates? I've seen a ton of people say stuff like ''If we don't have to work we can just focus on the stuff we want to do!'' But the counterpoint to that is that overtime people will just get bored doing the creative stuff unless they have a burning passion for it, I'm doing 3d art for like 2 years now and i really enjoy it but i feel like i would go absolutely insane if i didn't have a job on the side or at least made money from my 3d art, sitting all the time in home or going to parties everyday simply sounds dystopian to me.

While i'm not the most educated person to speak on this topic this is just speculation at the end of the day, AI might stagnate at some point and not improve any further or AI might actually solve all of these problems. Only time can tell afterall.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/NarpNarpYarp on 2024-01-22 22:19:17+00:00.

My employer has been implementing massive layoffs and pay cuts thanks to AI and machine learning (translation industry). This is great news because it means UBI will be here any minute.

When they fire you, should you try to get a new job? Trying to find employment would just slow down progress on UBI and condemn us to mindless work, not to mention that it's a waste of time to learn a new skill when it'll just be automated and you can spend your time doing more important things like coding.

Overall I'm really excited about seeing the job cuts this year! Nobody likes their job anyway. This is a huge leap forward for progress.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/ScopedFlipFlop on 2024-01-22 21:05:09+00:00.

Nietzsche said that scholars often fabricate points based on little evidence to support their viewpoint.

Similarly, doomers often apply this to accelerationists such as Kurzweil.

This is an instance of genetic fallacy - whilst the initial hypothesis may come from such a desire, no accelerationist premises his entire conclusion on blind hope.

And vice versa, to the accelerationists.

In conclusion, let's stop throwing out this argument to counter anyone's opinions. I hope this makes sense.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/HeroicLife on 2024-01-22 20:18:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/safwanadnan19 on 2024-01-22 19:15:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Teachinbundy on 2024-01-22 18:00:21+00:00.

I'm a long time luker and I won't lie, you guys and some of your posts have been a huge inspiration over the years. So I've put down 100k words over the past few years and am neck deep into my final draft, and I was struggling with some of the tropes and typical A.I gone bad stuff, when I realised this sub had probably the largest concentration of experts in the world. So please tell me what you hate about A.i in film and books and what you really love, and if it's good I'll put it in the book.

P.S I promise it won't be a shitty Amazon ebook.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Intelligent-Truck223 on 2024-01-22 15:42:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/dennislubberscom on 2024-01-22 23:26:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/agonypants on 2024-01-22 21:51:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Baphaddon on 2024-01-22 20:23:28+00:00.

Let's light this candle.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Singularian2501 on 2024-01-22 19:57:24+00:00.

Paper:

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Abstract:

As Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant advancements across various tasks, such as question answering, translation, text summarization, and dialogue systems, the need for accuracy in information becomes crucial, especially for serious financial products serving billions of users like Alipay. To address this, Alipay has developed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that grounds LLMs on the most accurate and up-to-date information. However, for a real-world product serving millions of users, the inference speed of LLMs becomes a critical factor compared to a mere experimental model.

Hence, this paper presents a generic framework for accelerating the inference process, resulting in a substantial increase in speed and cost reduction for our RAG system, with lossless generation accuracy. In the traditional inference process, each token is generated sequentially by the LLM, leading to a time consumption proportional to the number of generated tokens. To enhance this process, our framework, named lookahead, introduces a multi-branch strategy. Instead of generating a single token at a time, we propose a Trie-based Retrieval (TR) process that enables the generation of multiple branches simultaneously, each of which is a sequence of tokens. Subsequently, for each branch, a Verification and Accept (VA) process is performed to identify the longest correct sub-sequence as the final output. Our strategy offers two distinct advantages: (1) it guarantees absolute correctness of the output, avoiding any approximation algorithms, and (2) the worstcase performance of our approach is equivalent to the conventional process. We conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate the significant improvements achieved by applying our inference acceleration framework.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Heath_co on 2024-01-22 19:46:14+00:00.

We are currently experiencing the start of a temporary exponential growth curve thanks to new AI technology. The International Monetary fund has estimated that AI will put 60% of jobs at risk. So, I’m guessing they are assuming that AI technology will plateau when around 60% of jobs have been made redundant or reimagined. Many others have similar estimates, but these estimates forget one key factor;

The plateau of the current AI technology won’t be the end of technological advancement.

To better explain my point, I will go back to the beginning. From the start of time, it took

10,000,000,000+ years for matter and energy to become single celled life.

Then 4,000,000,000 years for multi celled life and the development of the brain.

~600,000,000 years for humans and the accumulation of knowledge between generations.

~2,000,000 years for farming and civilization. Allowing for people who are devoted to the accumulation of knowledge and writing.

~10,000 years for industry, and the rapid acceleration of technological advancement.

~200 years for electronic computers, allowing for the rapid processing of information.

~60 years for the Internet. Allowing for the rapid transfer of information across the planet.

It took roughly 20 years after the internet went public for the arrival of smartphones and social media, which allowed for the accumulation of digital information.

Then 10 years more for transformer based neural networks, generative AI, and the outsourcing of intelligence.

Each plateau after a paradigm shift is progressively getting shorter and shorter by orders of magnitude. The singularity is when the exponential growth curve has no apparent plateaus and is continuous. The technological revolutions will overlap with no pauses in-between.

And here we are concerned about what jobs will survive AI. Let’s say those 60% of jobs do eventually get replaced and there is a new technological plateau. How long will that status quo last before the next technological revolution? A year?

The exponential curve has occurred thus far without the assistance of AI. Imagine what the curve will be like when science can progress at digital speeds.

(Edit: improvements to the timescales and added descriptions to explain my reasoning)