Yup, in fact it already is. The tech currently available is crazy. I'm not sure if we are close to the singularity as many people seem to think but the world is going to start changing significantly over the next 2-5-10 years. I'm excited for a personnel assistant on my phone like Samantha from the Movie her - Someone already made a rudimentary one and we are so close now, i expect it to be on phones within the next 2 years. We will probably cure aging and all diseases in our lifetimes and creating a new unique movie will be as simple as saying "make a 2 hour long sc-fi movie about aliens attacking earth".

From my experience though misc doesn't seem to care much about this stuff.

For those who haven't seen her:



Not sure how to embed from twitter but i hadn't seen this one before:

this is all based on the false claim that chatgpt is "almost" AGI (artificial general intelligence)... it's nowhere close to AGI... we are nowhere close to AGI

we are nowhere close to what this video is predicting

173. If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can't make any conjectures as to the results, because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave. We only point out that the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines. It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines' decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and as machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more and more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won't be able to just turn the machine off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide.

174. On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car or his personal computer, but control over large systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite -- just as it is today, but with two differences. Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite is ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite. Or, if the elite consists of soft-hearted liberals, they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race. They will see to it that everyone's physical needs are satisfied, that all children are raised under psychologically hygienic conditions, that everyone has a wholesome hobby to keep him busy, and that anyone who may become dissatisfied undergoes "treatment" to cure his "problem." Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove their need for the power process or to make them "sublimate" their drive for power into some harmless hobby. These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they most certainly will not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.

You are right but also maybe wrong. We can't define consciousness nor is there a true consensus on what AGI actually is. ChatGPT could be one component of AGI, it could potentially (arguably unlikely) become AGI through emergent traits or we could be way off the mark and many many years away. We really don't know at this point.

Either way, it doesn't take AGI to drastically change the world, i truly believe what we currently have and what we will have in the next few years will without doubt transform the world as we know it.

Imagine getting an AI hooker and it crushing you to death while having sex.