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[Mind]

Right now. AI is really great at digital media, coding, games, and porn. It is also very good at convincing people to devalue human life.

 

Curing cancer? Nuclear fusion? Advanced space travel? Not so much.

 

We have had various forms of AI for decades. We have had deep-learning models for over a decade. LLMs have been in the limelight for over 2 years now.

 

Everyone keeps saying "look at all of the cool discoveries AI is making".

 

Yet, if you go to the hospital with cancer, you are going to get a treatment that doesn't cure your cancer without severe side effects, and even then, your cancer is highly likely to return within 5 years.

 

 

[forever freedom]

Anyone who isn't already using AI to bootstrap one's life and increase one's productivity and overall competence to face the daily challenges we all have, has no one to blame but himself. If AI isn't already being used to make one's quality of life objectively better, it's the person's own fault. 

 

AI is right now already an amazing tool and helps with so many things, I think people should focus on how they can use AI to improve their lives (and make money! There are countless opportunities nowadays more than ever) instead of complaining about rich people.

 

In a couple of years we will see AI performing original research and discoveries, let's give it some time, it is advancing exponentially, we can measure it by ourselves, every year AI is getting objectively smarter, it won't be long before it crosses the threshold where it starts making original research and discoveries. 

 

For anyone wanting to see humanity have a fighting chance to slow, halt and reverse aging, AI is our best hope right now, otherwise it would be centuries before we make a dent in aging. If we enter the superintelligence era in the next years and decades, we will have a chance of witnessing the defeat of aging ourselves. Isn't this the major objective of most here? 

[Mind]

I made an entire thread about how the "wonderful future" promised by AI and technology is not happening. In fact, just the opposite is happening. Not only is there no cure for aging (after decades of research, including the use of very capable AI and large volumes of data), but there is not even an accepted definition of aging. Every material good is getting more expensive. Every service is getting more expensive. There is no sign of this trend reversing anytime soon. If you see some positive signs that things are getting more abundant (besides porn and entertainment), please post in the other thread. I would like to hear some good news.

 

The majority of medical research is useless/wrong/fraudulent/not reproducible (well documented). AI will have a tough time trying to discover anything new using junk research from the past. In addition, we have had automated lab equipment for 20 years now, making lab work easier and faster. Yet we have virtually nothing new to combat aging. 20 YEARS!!! and hardly anything to show for it.

 

Like I said, right now, AI is being used mostly for entertainment, because that is where the money is. The companies developing AI are mostly in it to make money - they only say they are trying to solve the world's problems to look good in front of the camera. I am glad that you are optimistic, but you had better hope the the new super intelligent AI that is being recklessly rolled out around the world will be friendly to us.