“This whole saga makes me genuinely embarrassed to follow this stuff. I just want a sub that has an informed opinion on AI, this is worse than crypto bro bullshit.”
“Every hype-man who posts vague tweets and hype posts should be ridiculed. Every clown who posts screenshots of said tweets on this sub should be ridiculed.”
““AGI is coming out next year” - this sub for the last 4 years”
some self aware highlights.
I hadn’t put it together before but it completely makes sense that singularity believers would easily fall for AI hype.
yeah, iirc the first step to singularity or at least what causes it is an ASI so we have this community of dweebs thinking that that’ll solve everything and not, like, communism, which probably won’t solve everything but certainly more than whatever the fuck llms are doing.
Drooling with anticipation for sapient hologram helpmeets with godlike powers that also unconditionally love them and want to fuck them lead to some very wishful thinking.
One of the weirdest struggle sessions I had before I was away for almost a year was some smug computer toucher that directly invoked that movie for their argument for why LLMs were at least as sentient/sapient as us mere meat computers.
Yes, others also brought up that it was fiction and fiction doesn’t have to adhere to scientific or philosophical rigor, but that treat hog didn’t care. We’re all meat puppets and our consciousness is an illusion to them and the treat printer said “I love you” so it’s just like it was for John Blade Runner, who would totally drive a Cybertruck
Wow that is a tier of “missing the point the movie was making” previously thought only theoretically possible.
They saw
hologram, and because death of the author and all that, they decided the movie was about how 
hologram was just around the corner, just for them.
Gonna have to wait a long time now that every startup grift and zombie legacy company has redefined AI to mean “computer does stuff” and declared victory. At least, if the billboards on the 101 I see on the way to SFO are any indication - Salesforce will use “AI” to increase your “productivity”. What does that mean? It means give us your money, chumps.
Not that AI robot slave girlfriends were ever happening in any case; obviously everyone in /r/singularity is competing for the title of most scientifically illiterate person alive and has no clue how the brain - or anything, really - works.
A few decades ago, the same was done by saying “MULTIMEDIA.”