dex3r

dex3r t1_jdqbyr4 wrote

Take a look at a Doomsday Argument https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

> The argument goes like this: suppose that the total number of human beings that will ever exist is fixed. If so, the likelihood of a randomly selected person existing at a particular time in history would be proportional to the total population at that time. Given this, the argument posits that a person alive today should adjust their expectations about the future of the human race, because their own existence provides information about the total number of humans that will ever live.

If this is true, then we are not lucky. We are exactly in the most likely time to live. But it also means, that human population has reached its peak. Maybe we will go extinct, but maybe we will just reproduce a lot less often. Even not taking Singularity into account, the current trend looks like the second might be true.

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dex3r t1_ixq2b1y wrote

This article of course does not answer the question in the title. It states some irrelevant differences between python, cpp and Java (why those 3? who knows). Then lists python features, that can be found in many other languages.

The truth is that Python is not particularly special for AI, it was just chosen by Google to build early, popular AI libraries like PyTorch TensforFlow.

>Using Python ML libraries, a sample Pile of Cores (PoC) was built to detect basic emotions

Pile of Cores? Not Proof of Concept? OK.

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dex3r t1_it06ppe wrote

Given recent advancements in very narrow AI applications, in which ML models are much better (in this narrow task) than human, I would say Singularity could come before AGI/ASI.

I can imagine having most professions replaced by AI. Given we have artists, writers, translators, transcribers, and even therapists almost ready to be replaced by AI, a narrow AI, an almost post-scarcity world could be feasible before anyone figures out how to create AI that will match the average human in all aspects at once.

This is a wild guess not backend by anything else than intuition, of course.

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