I don't understand how anyone can believe that we're near even a whiff of AGI when we barely understand what dreaming is, or how the human brain interacts with the quantum world. There are so many elements of human creativity that are still utterly hidden behind a wall that it makes me feel insane when an entire industry is convinced we're just magically going to have the answer soon.
The people heralding the emergence of AGI are doing little more than pushing Ponzi schemes along while simultaneously fueling vitriolic waves of hate and neo-luddism for a ground-breaking technology boom that could enhance everything about how we live our lives... if it doesn't get regulated into the ground due to the fear they're recklessly cooking up.
I've been wondering for awhile what keeps bad actors from using bots to upvote solutions that introduce malware, thereby poisoning LLMs and making them even more untrustworthy than they are currently. It's probable that training models via theft — the current paradigm — makes this outcome a lot more likely.
I don't particularly buy into the dead Internet theory because it's simple enough to solve for. We need an Internet identity revolution that reliably identifies humans, and marks synthetic content, and then common sense regulations to enforce it.
The people heralding the emergence of AGI are doing little more than pushing Ponzi schemes along while simultaneously fueling vitriolic waves of hate and neo-luddism for a ground-breaking technology boom that could enhance everything about how we live our lives... if it doesn't get regulated into the ground due to the fear they're recklessly cooking up.