The AI Doc
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Finished watching this last night. One of the best I've seen on the subject and he gets almost all the heavy hitters to talk about it on camera. The premise of the movie is the film maker is about to have their first kid and he is spiraling into anxiety and he thought the documentary would help him understand AI and what is coming. It is split into really three parts. The pessimist who think we are looking at the end of humanity in 10 years tops. The optimists who think this is the most exciting time ever to be alive and we are on the precipice of an explosions of understanding that will propel humanity to places never seen before.
Then he talks to the CEO's of the AI companies and I would characterize their view as this is happening no matter what because it is a global race and it will probably be good but yeah they could also see it going very bad.
The race right now is for AGI defined below. That is where the shit really hits the fan and everybody agrees we are anywhere from 2 months to 5 years away, but no more than that. As Sam Altman CEO of Open AI said about his baby that was about to be born. A child being born today will never be smarter than AI in their lifetime.
Anyway highly recommend the doc it's on Peacock now.
Trailer
https://youtu.be/xkPbV3IRe4Y?si=TR56OIBtrXLymwyr
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) — an AI system that can understand, learn, and apply intelligence across a wide range of tasks at a level comparable to a human. Key points:
Scope: Able to perform many different kinds of cognitive tasks (reasoning, learning, planning, language,perception) rather than being narrowly specialized.
Flexibility: Transfers knowledge between domains and adapts to novel problems without task-specificreprogramming.
Autonomy: Can set and pursue goals, learn from limited data, and operate with general problem-solvingstrategies.
Evaluation: Measured by broad benchmarks of generalization, transfer learning, and human-levelperformance across diverse tasks.
Distinct from narrow AI: Most current systems (including advanced large models) are specialized or excel inparticular domains; AGI implies broad, human-like versatility.
Short-term practical implications: research focus on safety, alignment, compute/data scaling, architectures that support transfer, and robust evaluation methods.
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"A child being born today
"A child being born today will never be smarter than AI in their lifetime."
Humans were never as smart as they think they are.
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> we are on the precipice of
> we are on the precipice of an explosions of understanding
I'm finding just the opposite. I don't disagree with the precipice metaphor, but it overlooks an abyss from where I'm standing.
I teach composition courses at a community college, and for the last year or two, I'd say that at least half of my students are using AI to do their work for them, even though I do not allow the use of AI in my classes. For the last few semesters, I've been referring about a third of my students to our academic review committee for AI use, and I don't make those referrals unless I have a confession, so the actual number of students using AI is likely much higher.
Back to those explosions of understanding, I'm not seeing how that could happen when so many students are outsourcing their education to AI. And if student test scores are any indication of where we're at in terms of cognition, math and reading scores are in what some are calling a Generation-Long Decline.
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And I expect the reliant ones
And I expect the reliant ones will weed themselves out as part of an evolutionary process. They will make themselves just another bot, expendable. Those who can use it as part of a process toward a higher level of understanding should rise above the fools who depend on it entirely.
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I'm not agreeing with the
I'm not agreeing with the optimists and to be fair none of them are really saying humans will get smarter other than one small example of every child will be able to have a personalized AI tutor.
Their point was more along the lines of we have never had a single technology that simultaneously lifts all boats. Rocket science didn't do much for advancements in medicine but AI will lift all research simultaneously. Of course the critics point out that any advancements in biological science that will lead to the eradication of disease will also give us the opportunity to produce highly targeted bio-weapons. It just comes down to do you trust humanity with that kind of knowledge and who gets to have it, and also once a machine has those capabilities why would they need us.
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so many graduations shown
so many graduations shown online have kids heavily booing ai loving speech givers
if we don't get destroyed first, i do believe in their future and the end of so many screen related norms of now