I was speaking to my friend from undergrad who’s a PhD student at Stanford, he works on computer vision. I was amazed by the amount of progress purportedly being made in the field, and in AI more broadly.
He recommended I watch the demo of Tesla’s Optimus robot, here it is:
https://youtu.be/cpraXaw7dyc?si=2rAvQkhwTFWkrNW1
These robots have only been getting better and better, at accelerating rates in recent years.
Hardware limits, a significant obstacle in the way of AI progress, are almost doubling yearly. With quantum computing on the horizon, I anticipate that that obstacle disappears completely.
Once robots like Tesla’s Optimus become more advanced, how long will it be until they coat them in bullet proof armor, arm them, and have them come after us? I used to dismiss ideas like this as science fiction, but now it seems like it’ll be reality within the next decade or two.
If so, is there any chance of turning back time and revolting? I don’t think so. If we let it get to that point the best we’d be able to do is hope for a miracle.
* AI isn't real. There is no "I" in the AI. It's just overfitted algorithms that no one really understands.
* AI doesn't work. At best you get something like 80% accuracy, when newborn infants can get upwards of 95% accuracy. All the data in the world and all the compute time will not fix this.
* These companies spent untold fortunes developing AI only to figure this out. They are trying to find a way to monetize their stupidity.
* Since there are no programmers left in the software industry (only white males can program, and we're sick of their garbage) they rely on algorithms they can't understand to get anything done, and then brag about how smart they are.
* The tech industry is collapsing before your very eyes. In a few years, it may become impossible to advance any tech at all. We'll be stuck using the same processors and programs that were written decades ago, except it will be worse since Chinese people can't even reuse technology correctly.