Not necessarily. Questions of motivation, mental issues, malicious behavior, learning ability, etc. may kill that.

Same. This basically crap never works out and there are always a ton of not very smart people cheering for it.

The "not really AGI, but can navigate the world somewhat incompetently" kind? That one would be a huge, huge success actually, for quite a few areas, for example robotics. Friend of mine, a professor of robotics, told me that the "navigation capabilities of an ant would be a massive, massive improvement". It is unclear whether AI will ever amount to this much though. (No, Physicalism is not predicting that. They are using circular reasoning, like most religious and quasi-religious fuckups...)

Indeed. A lot of people cannot accept reality when it collides with their hallucinations though. Hence the low-quality attacks on Gutman's statements.

You got the causality wrong. Basically means you did miss what Gutman was actually saying. Nice. Conforms what he says though.

You got conned. They are not "using" anything. They want a bit of the PR aspect and hence are "looking into" doing that, which probably means absolutely nothing.

No idea why people keep maintaining that delusion that they will eventually get there. All evidence is pointing in the other direction. But I guess people are just not living in reality.

The non-physics-experiment part is essentially a "constant delivery scam". I mean, they do have a faked ("compiled" Shor's algorithm) factorization of 12 and 21 After something like 40 years of research. There is really no rational reason to expect anything at this time or in the foreseeable future. The physics experiment aspect is interesting, so I would like to keep that funded, on academic level. The idea that it will produce a QC has to die though. All that idea is doing is exposing the delulus. And there are a lot of those.

Especially as that is not even what they are trying to do ...

And one of the few things LLMs actually seem to be working well for (for now, until countermeasures will be put in place) is reverse engineering of binary code. Which usually is huge effort, but LLMs can probably bring it down to large effort with an expert doing it.

Before the tech stock all comes crashing down. Apparently Space-X is not going so well and the LLM crap in general is not looking too good now.

Interesting. Definitely a better reference than mine.

Proving it was stolen can be hard, agreed. But the LLM code does not have copyright and anybody copying it from you is not committing a crime.

Greed makes blind and dumb. Nothing new. In addition, most people are not sophisticated enough to understand that history is worth preserving.

That said, in sane legal systems, this is allowed.

I think more research is needed. We may get that in the next years. Or not.

Exactly. I think the death rate metric is being used to give the appearance of the US not being as bad as it is. There is no other reason I see why an indirect (and incomplete) metric like the death rate would be used, when quite direct and clear life expectancy numbers are easily available.