It was Aliens. They were out there raking the sand making it all smooth.

Erdogan's Türkiye doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of becoming an EU member. Although I loved the idea behind Mustapha Kemal's Türkiye, even there I would be very opposed to their entry due to the enormous size of the country and its population. It is simply too big (and poor) too be assimilated. Special status, sure! Beter a friendly Türkiye than a hostile one. NATO member? No prob. It's a defensive alliance after all. So is Türkiye 'western' country? Nope and certainly not under a Islamist dictator as Erdogan....

"The US is going to ban TikTok because it's a foreign company from a country that is not a US ally"
A huge tell here is that TikTok is STRICKTLY FORBIDDEN in China itself as being to damaging for their young!! (As of course are Google, Meta, Wikipedia et al.) And they still have the gall to complain about the west's censorship of their (but not really their as forbidden over there) so-called social media....

It always comes down to the following: "How do YOU define intelligence?"

Well, whatever the result in the end, I will remain grateful to Stability AI that they offered a free product that could be installed LOCALLY (I hate the cloud concept with a passion...) I'm happily running Stable Diffusion on my RTX3070 with acceptable speeds using Comfyui, playing around with the different checkpoints, lora's and all the other fun stuff I find on Civitai. Pinokio really lowers the bar for playin with AI things (thanks Peanut!)

When you feed it a giant cesspool of invalidated data (The internet) you should not expect a single response to be accurate. none of these AI's are fed a carefully curated data set.

But companies are expecting to replace all their programmers with AI.... What could possibly go wrong?

When I was younger, my take was that it would take 15-20 years to 'train' an 'artificial brain', just like it takes time to get a baby up to general intelligence. I still like this idea. Now we throw the whole internet, music libraries, picture collections at a monster computer to have it digest it all at once. We end up with LLMs that are seemingly magnificent at the written word, but have actually no clue as to the meaning/context of what they write. We have seen wonderfull things like Sora that seem to have only a rudimentary understanding of physics (water simulation seems pretty ok, but consistency seems whacky what with people/cars/things disappearing/appearing, the human skeleton not being consistent (swapping legs, finger horrorshows) etc I like to think that the AI has to LEARN these things, not just regurgitate what it's been fed. So treat it like a baby. Give an advanced machine one or two manipulators and a vision system (it'll learn how to use them) and give it children's toys (maybe simulated). Biggest problem will probably be how to give it 'curiosity' (What will an AGI do when it has no tasks to do?) Keep adding more toys and add complexity to the toys, just as for a baby. Let the manipulators interact with water, mud, foam, soft things, hard things, unbreakable things, breakable things. Have it LEARN how things work, action & effect. Keep building up the compute capacity while doing this. Those things will go slowly, other things like learning arithmetic, mathematics, text etc will probably go faster. At the end you would end up with a machine that understands the world, has knowledge and reasoning skills. (hopefully...) Anyway, maybe this is more for a science-fiction scenario but that is how I envisioned the AGI evolution. I'm sure we'll see wonderfull things in the coming one-two years but if no REAL breakthrough is achieved we might again go in the trough of disillusionment and enter the next AI winter....

The Chinese ought to retaliate and outlaw Facebook!! That will show those freedom-hating Americans!!

Didn't Rabbit R1 already promise something like that? By the time it gets to R3 it ought to be something quite usable. I would prefer that to something from Microsoft/OpenAI taking over my PC...

Hi, I have a pretty standard medium PC (Ryzen something, RTX3070, 16GB) While not having deep understanding of GenAI, I like to play with LLMs (GPT4All) and Text-to-image (Stable Diffusion) locally on my PC. (hate cloud concept) While a lot of discussion here is about adding NPU cores to the CPU die, would that not go in the direction of iIntel's integrated graphics? ie more or less does the job but sucks compared to AMD and Nvidia dedicated GPU offerings? Would it not make more sense to release consumer level (ie inference oriented) cards with 'something' that accelerates GenAI beyond what GPU does? Some sort of TPU or inference-only H100 /mi300 variants? I'll keep my PC for the next couple of years but if something would come out like I described, I would certainly be interested... or am I completely missing the mark here?

Fredric Brown was obviously an A.I. You asked for a SciFi story of less than 10 words end it gave you one with 17 words!! What's scifi about Anthony Burgess' story? It's a f*cking 8 word sentence...

OK. So there is no such thing as a "wooden leg" either by your definition. After all it is just a piece of wood. It is no leg. Maybe a vat grown 'leg' grown from your own stem cell would meet your definition of an artificial leg, but a wooden leg would certainly not be an artificial leg. I'm sure others have explained to you the difference between ARTIFICIAL intelligence and artificial INTELLIGENCE. Gen AI (and all other form of current day AI) are the former, not the latter.

It's a popular model internationally, but particularly in India, so I think there's like a billion of them.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/b... I don't know what size it is (was?), or how many of its staff are affected, but come on, acquire a new company one week, lay off 100 staff the next? How are people supposed to have a life? Companies that complain of falling staff loyalty have actions like this to blame. It's like trying to make a home and have a family in a video game level where every floor tile you touch falls away a few seconds later.