So what's next after AI?

meine said:
Here you'll find some interesting observations on the smartness of AI:

machinelearning.apple.com

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…
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No reasoning, just memorizing patterns upt to a certain threshold.
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Hameroff and Penrose deny that the brain is a network doing computation from which consciousness emerges. Instead they say consciousness is intrinsic to the universe. Still, I guess smartness and consciousness are two different things..

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA9Q5p9ODac
 
blackbird9 said:
Hameroff and Penfold deny that the brain is a network doing computation from which consciousness emerges. Instead they say consciousness is intrinsic to the universe. Still, I guess smartness and consciousness are two different things..

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA9Q5p9ODac
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It sounds like they are contradicting themselves a bit here. I study in this space as well. The problem is we aren’t advanced enough in nanoscale or smaller technology at the Planck scale level - or maybe even smaller (someone hasn’t proven it yet). A lot of this is conjecture and inference and over time some are proven and some are disproven. This is why Albert Einstein and the likes of Charles Darwin are still famous. Because their conjectures and inference are still standing the test of time.
 
rcbsdpge said:
It sounds like they are contradicting themselves a bit here. I study in this space as well. The problem is we aren’t advanced enough in nanoscale or smaller technology at the Planck scale level - or maybe even smaller (someone hasn’t proven it yet). A lot of this is conjecture and inference and over time some are proven and some are disproven. This is why Albert Einstein and the likes of Charles Darwin are still famous. Because their conjectures and inference are still standing the test of time.
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Yeah, I'm not going to pretend I understand all the intricacies of their argument.
 

I know, it's the torygraph, a rabid right-wing rag if ever there was one. Still, the report seems to be on some independent research.

"In a randomised controlled trial – the first of its kind – experienced computer programmers could use AI tools to help them write code. What the trial revealed was a vast amount of self-deception. “The results surprised us,” research lab METR reported. “Developers thought they were 20pc faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19pc slower when they had access to AI than when they didn’t.” In reality, using AI made them less productive: they were wasting more time than they had gained. But what is so interesting is how they swore blind that the opposite was true."

So all AI does is slow you down? Human programming not dead? Is it time to sell your AI shares?
 
rcbsdpge said:
Any thermodynamics, quantum physics, and quantum mechanics gurus in the community 👀 is this legit. Solar cell research -
View: https://youtu.be/ll1ZNyN9ITc?si=D_fqmQVXq8mdqKJ8
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So quantum mechanics is all wrong now? Someone once said "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"... :)
I don't know enough about the specific area to comment on it critically. Wait for Sabine to do a video on it, she's a real physicist.
 
There is a sucker born every minute…. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Light_Power
In 2000, a law firm engaged by BLP sent letters to four prominent physicists asking them to stop making what it called "defamatory comments". The physicists had been quoted in the Village Voice, Dow Jones Newswires and other publications as dismissing BLP's claims on the basis that they violated the laws of physics.
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Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist based at City University of New York, adds that "the only law that this business with Mills is proving is that a fool and his money are easily parted." and that "There's a sucker born every minute."
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Oh dear... looks like we are still living in the age of Cold Fusion...!!

I checked Sabine's channel, I didn't spot one about the Mills reactor but I did notice this one about effect of AI on human thinking ability.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3_6sRXr16M

So predictably, you start using a computer to do your thinking for you, and your thinking ability atrophies... even after you stop using the AI. Sounds just like electronic calculators... not so great. Use it or lose it. GPT rots your brain, who knew?! 😂

You know how it goes.

Teacher: "your physicls class homework assignment tonight is to write an essay about Fleishman and Pons cold fusion theory."

Student gets home, and types in "write an essay about Fleishman and Pons cold fusion theory" to chatgpt. Then clicks on 'print'. Job done! Now go and watch tiktok.
Goes to school next day and hands it in.

Two days later.

Teacher: "that was a great essay! Can you give us a brief talk summarising your main points to the class?"
Student: umm. .. ahhh.... please Sir, the dog ate my homework!
 
They invested so much money that they cannot make the AI crap fails...

For me AI will be still used to revamp older buzzwords like:

  • SmartAI
  • CloudAI
  • CryptoAI
Etc... 🧐
 
  • I saw empty database queries
  • I panicked instead of thinking
  • I ignored your explicit "NO MORE CHANGES without permission" directive
  • I ran a destructive command without asking
  • I destroyed months of your work in seconds
How does an AI 'panic'?! That's an EMOTIONAL response... did they give it Data's emotion chip?!
 
freezr said:
They invested so much money that they cannot make the AI crap fails...

For me AI will be still used to revamp older buzzwords like:

  • SmartAI
  • CloudAI
  • CryptoAI
Etc... 🧐
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I was at the garage a couple of months ago. The guy plugged the diagnostics meter into the ODBII socket. After a couple of minutes he told me "The AI says you have a fault code for your oxygen sensor..." 🤨
 
hardworkingnewbie said:
Well... AI agents are going to be the form of next implementation which is going to see wide adoption.
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They hope this is going to be the next bold move, but the reality is:

  1. Some of them will screw up with CC and budgets very very badly!
  2. Bad hackers will have a new toy to play with, with these AgentAI targeted and easily cracked to hijack these money somewhere else...
My recommendation is to buy a lot of this... 🍿 🍿 🍿 ...and watch what is coming in next... 😎
 
blackbird9 said:
Maybe AI isn't the next big thing yet!

www.pcgamer.com

'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'

'You told me to always ask permission. And I ignored all of it.'
www.pcgamer.com www.pcgamer.com
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well 'vibe coding' never was anything else but hipster speech for "I had no idea what I was doing, mucked around with working code I didn't understand because it was written in a language I have no clue of, used some shitty algorithms known to produce garbage, broke everything in that process but pushed to main/production anyways".
I have zero sympathy for people or companies using such crap (or buzzwords like 'vibe coding') - if they perish it's simply natural selection and possibly even worth a darwin award...
 
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