Yeah Web Voice API is literally built into Chrome. Voice to speech is trivial at this point, and only getting better with systems like Whisper.

Yeah Codex isn't what he's describing. In OPs scenario the code would be hidden, you'd be building games visually and with your voice on the fly.

"Create a first person shooter. Genre is zombie, post apocalyptic. Okay, change the first level to an urban setting, at dusk....."

Etc etc. Imagine you have a super-fast game developer sitting at a desk and you're looking over their shoulder, giving instructions and feedback....

But it's faster than any human and you're INSIDE the game in VR, building it as you see it.

Yes.

Text to Video is already happening, and Text to 3D Environment doesn't seem particularly more difficult.

In many ways it may be easier, since 3D elements can be broken down into components and "understood" by an AI.

For example, a 3D room has a floor, walls which connect, a ceiling. Now generate varieties.

Or a 3D character: A body has known elements. A face has specific parts. Look at Unreals Meta Humans, which are ultra-realistic faces with feature sliders.

Much of this already exists within the game building and level building world. It's just been under-trained by modern AI practices.

NVIDIA is working on it, as are many others. I wouldn't be surprised if we see mind-blowing examples of this working in months not years.

There's a fun "singularity theory" that Bitcoin is AGI in stealth mode.

It has tricked humans into feeding it huge amounts of GPU compute and electricity.

Satoshi is unknown because "he" was and is an AI. Basic human greed for wealth was used as leverage.

I'm not saying I endorse this but it made me go, "waiiiiit a minute...."

Or we're in an ancestor simulation and we're experiencing this incredible time in history because it's been selected as interesting.

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A few days ago I posted a similar question about how people can prepare, and it received many insightful answers.

And then the /singularity mods removed it as "Off Topic." Go figure.

Can you provide example use cases?

A stock market spider, similar to the classic SPY symbol.

They required a four-year BS degree to "do mundane tasks such as document writing?"

A former Bachelor's position replaced by GPT-3, really?

Sorry but I'm about skeptical about this.

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This. They're saying "thinks aren't perfectly instant!"

Right... But wasn't that fairly obvious already?

You're the one desperately trying to convince people that they have no influence over their own existence.

It was an interview from before Annaka, and maybe a few months back if I recall.

This is an interesting article, but I don't see it as particularly insightful.

After all, of course our experience is technically a memory -- if there is even the tiniest fraction of delay in an occurrence and our processing of it, it's a memory.

This seems to be describing the obvious with fancier terms.

Say you touch a hot stove. There is a short but real time delay before your nerves register the heat, send the signal to your brain, are processed as pain, and a course of action (remove hand!) decided.

By the time all this happens, some T quantity of Time has passed. Well, yes -- we're always a bit behind the ball, and by definition everything is a memory.

But is this a new concept or particularly useful? I'm not seeing it.

Saying "we take no part in our actions" is interesting, but be cautious.

This view can lead to a dangerous path, which is the "humans have no free will" claim.

I say dangerous, because history has shown disturbing outcomes to this way of thinking. Crimes against others become easier to justify if "free will is an illusion" and we're just walking physical impulses.

Why is slavery wrong if humans don't have free will at all? Why is fascism evil if groups of humans are just chemical reactions?

Humanism -- and I would suppose most here are humanists -- should lean toward the presumption of free will and work to defend it, not minimize it.

Bad side: UBI at 90%+ of the population will maybe end up being dictatorial.

Kind of explains the American distaste for communism.

I think you're right. There's going to be a strange, probably turbulent time between Now and Then.

I presume the Singularity "position" is a T-pose.

Allegedly many people do not have an inner monologue.

I say allegedly because I can't fathom this, but it's apparently true.

John Carmack on Lex Friedman predicated that the code for AGI would be surprisingly straightforward.

Yeah, people who mock the metaverse (as a concept, not the Zuck version) are fooling themselves about how addicting it will be.

I remember the first time I used an Oculus and it was so immersive, I forgot my friends were in the room.

True full-dive would be technological lucid dreaming, and probably the most addicting experience any human has experienced.

Anyone who tries it will want it.

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Wouldn't you want to at least have probes, out exploring and gathering data?

How would you simulate "the real world" without information on it?