I went to copy and paste a picture from Google into Facebook messenger and it pasted the hyperlink, I was like wtf. Is there a reason for this? It seems like searching for and sharing media from Google images has actually gotten worse.

The worst however is how many practically unusable websites there are. I am in constant awe of how poorly designed so many web pages are, especially these major corporations who have limitless money and resources. It is so easy to create a user friendly experience, yet the interface is almost always so cluttered and difficult to navigate you end up closing it and calling customer service.

Which leads me to my next gripe - why is it so difficult to find customer service numbers and then once you do to get a live voice now??

I need to create a fully immersive high definition interactive user friendly 3D online reality accessible through a computer and potentially VR headsets. I need it to be as though you were really there. Does the software exist for this or would it need to be developed as an independent project? Who has the skills?

I've been pondering the relationship between AI and quantum computing. Will AI be the catalyst to make quantum computers mainstream? And could quantum computers be just what Ai needs to make Skynet real? Or even just advance at such a rate even if it doesn't enslave us and take the planet from us, and just says screw you ameba's and leaves in the ftl ships they built. It is really hard for me to wrap my head around compute that can take what would take todays top O' the line supercomputing machines 10,000 years to compute, and do it in minutes or even seconds. That's even more extreme than my first Tandy 1000 vs Deep Mind. Interesting times indeed.

I"ve read in the wikipedia page of the book "The Singularity is Near" that he said that a 1000 dollar computer would have the same processing capacity of a human brain by 2023. Did his prediction fail?

I recently read an article about how the supercomputer used to train Chatgpt consisted of something like 10,000 gpus.

My question is, do these supercomputers that train neural nets always get better when more gpus are added? Or is it a situation where progress flattens to such a degree at some point that it makes no sense to make the supercomputer any bigger?

I’ll admit that my gut reaction to AI has been profoundly negative, which is generally not the case for other nascent technologies (e.g. nanotechnology, genomics, advanced materials). I’m trying to take a cooler-headed approach, so I’m hoping to glean lessons for how we should respond/prepare/adapt to mass deployment of AI from our past experiences. I don’t want this to turn into another debate about the relative risks/merits of the technology, but rather a historical perspective that may shed light on this seemingly unprecedented development.

Thanks!

Submission statement:

It is interesting to see countries start to grapple with regulating AI (like the recent ban in Italy). This is an excerpt from the article:

While the US and China are fierce technology trade rivals, they both appear to something new in common: concerns about accountability for, and possible misuse of, AI. On Tuesday, the governments of both countries issued announcements related to  regulations for AI development.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a branch of the US Department of Commerce, put out a formal public request for input on what policies should shape an AI accountability ecosystem.

These include questions around data access, measuring accountability, and how approaches to AI might vary in different industry sectors, such as employment or health care.

Written comments in response to the request must be provided to NTIA by June 10, 2023, 60 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register.

The news comes on the same day that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) unveiled a number of draft measures for managing generative AI services, including making providers responsible for the validity of data used to train generative AI tools.