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Comment · 21 days ago
I asked ChatGPT to estimate memory requirements of a brain simulation, with neurons from a paper linked in OP post ("Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks"). This paper uses neuron models that are supposed to simulate real ones. The answer was 8-50 PB, with 10^7 weights shared between neurons, or 3.4 EB if each neuron has its own 10^7 weights. So it's not out of the realm of possibility.
Comment · 22 days ago
Long term memory?
Comment · 22 days ago
I can't afford it, I'm unemployed, AI took my job
Comment · 22 days ago
>Dario, Sam, Demis, and Elon have all said this loudly and repeatedly to anyone who asks.

While taking and hoarding as much as possible, as fast as possible. Oh and Elon had a brief episode of trying to fire people from government jobs.

Comment · 22 days ago
You can also sell them your children, if they're hot. It's like printing money!
Comment · 9 months ago
What about the people who sold gold? Didn't they make money?
Comment · 3 years ago
That's true but it's also what Bitcoin did 13 years ago, meanwhile all the hype about taking over the world doesn't seem to be coming true.
Comment · 3 years ago
You fool, that's exactly what it wants.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think it's a perfectly cromulent word.
Comment · 3 years ago
Let me check in a year
Comment · 3 years ago
There's some difference between blockchain and AI, that is AI works.
Comment · 4 years ago
So that Twitter user started talking about Wikipedia funding the "culture war", and I stopped reading. I guess it's my own fault for reading what an anime avatar has to say.
Comment · 4 years ago
A sufficiently smart and malicious AI could wipe out most of our knowledge, now that everything is stored on electronic devices.
Comment · 4 years ago
Even as a kid I thought Austin Powers or Adam Sandler were trash. "Don't Look Up" is funnier than most of his hits from the past.
Comment · 4 years ago
>These were normally brown like tree bark but evolved to look like sooty brick in a few years.

Because the brown ones got eaten. But that's different from evolving to recognize where a road is, which is maybe possible but probably would take thousands or millions of years.

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