interesting talk regards ai research automation

 

comment on youtuber Felix Harder's video: This Natural Supplement INSTANTLY Destroys Dental Plaque (-92% In Just 24h!)

 

He focuses on DIM, related to cruciferous vegetables, but I've also heard k2 and xylitol are good for oral health too.

The creator of ruby on rails appears in this episode of the Lex Fridman podcast.

 

Interesting talk on technology between Lex Fridman and DHH.

comment on youtube video titled Elon Musk says robots and AI will end money

 

we don't know if there are physical limits that intelligence can't overcome, in the book the metamorphosis of prime intellect, it turns out even the fundamental laws of physics can be altered by intelligence.  Though perhaps there are limits, still they may allow for things like wormholes, or nanobots which can overcome most limits.   Full immersion virtual reality can allow for omnipotence within the virtual space and endless environments of untold beauty and physical impossibility.

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New mac mini and mac studio announced, mac mini releasing in September.  M6 mini will reach up to 32GB of ram, while the M5 pro will reach up to 64GB of ram.  This video focuses on mac mini

 The following video focuses on mac studio

Up to 1.2 TB/s of bandwidth and up to 512GB of unified ram.  Very impressive for local ai use.  Of course it's also good for media and general use too.

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New excellent update on ai news from excellent ai news aggregator ai search.

Edit: most impressive news is that the Nvidia avo harness together with claude managed to get 100% on arc agi 3 public benchmark, something that most models alone previously failed miserably at.  

Edit 2:  The fact adding a harness to claude allowed 100% on arc agi 3, when previously scores were under 30%, suggests that maybe llm technology with some additions might be able to reach agi, without having to resort to radically different architecture.

Intelligence might be simpler than some expected in its fundamental nature as Hawkins prior comments suggested.

"Intelligence and understanding started as a memory system that fed predictions into the sensory system. These predictions are the essence of understanding. To know something means that you can make predictions about it."- Jeff Hawkins

 "[We need to see the brain] not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next."- Jeff Hawkins

edit 3   A video by Michel Laclé titled 

A Perfect Score: How NVIDIA's AVO Aced the Hardest Reasoning Benchmark

This short video focuses on the AVO harness and how together with claude it managed to ace the public arc agi 3 benchmark.  Now it remains to be seen how it'll fare on the private arc agi 3 bench, but it will probably do well.  The AVO harness was not designed for arc agi 3 yet managed such impressive results of 100%.
 

Comment on ai companies promise to investors, future, joblessness, and general issues with such technological progress

 ai's promise to investors is to replace most if not all of the workers in all of the industries and take all their salaries.  I don't think it's going to happen, not because it's not possible, but because given open source will make state of the art ai free, eventually all intellectual labor will be free.  I'm not sure how this works out in the end, given many companies essentially provide services to other companies, but ai makes all companies and even individuals self-sufficient so companies will no longer need other companies and individuals won't need companies or tradesmen.

I can foresee hardware companies having an edge, as people are likely to buy ai hardware and robots to engage in labor.  But this is only a temporary edge, as once Agi is reached it is likely advanced manufacturing might become zero cost too, allowing anyone to manufacture whatever they want including the ai hardware or robots.   But such a development might take years or a few decades to be reached.

How can advanced manufacturing reach zero cost?  Through the use of molecular machines, that can operate at atomic scale and use cheap ubiquitous materials found in soil and the environment to produce advanced competitive products through the manipulation of the nanoscale structure of simple common elements.   Since the labor is zero as it is automated machinery of the type known as molecular machines, which can self-replicate from cheap ubiquitous materials, and since the intellectual labor is zero, and since the materials can be found in the backyard of anyone or even a landfill, the cost is essentially zero.

But as always unless intellectual property laws change, it is likely people will still try and give whatever they earn to certain companies or individuals based on popularity or trends, allowing wealth to concentrate, despite most individuals and companies becoming self-sufficient which destroys much of the need for trading or buying services or resources.   For example, just because one can have unlimited songs or movies identical in quality and in private even using any intellectual property desired, doesn't mean that actors, sports athletes, and singers won't draw crowds and fill theaters and stadiums.    Certain brands might also attract popularity.

But as I've always said copyright reform is needed, anyone should be able to make derivative works, and the copyright owner should only get a reasonable share of royalties, not be able to stop the creation of new art or scientific innovation.

In the midterm, it is indeed interesting what will happen as more and more companies and individuals become self-sufficient and no longer need to buy most others' services or products.   This is particularly worrisome for those without assets.  Because with assets you can see an individual acquire robots, robocars, ais, etc. to be able to participate in the economy and acquire sufficient investments to live off of dividends or low interest loans against their investments.   But without assets, as more and more companies no longer need workers, not only are they likely to lose their jobs, but there will be less and less jobs overtime leaving more and more permanently unemployed and without any resources to fend for themselves.   

At the same time the welfare state is in jeopardy due to the growing debt and interest on the debt, the welfare that might help individuals who're made permanently unemployed might be put in jeopardy.  This could result in mass starvation and death if things turned out for the worse.

But at the end of the road, an age of untold abundance seems likely to come out, still unknown how exactly it'll evolve when basically any company and individual is entirely self-sufficient able to themselves produce all products of all companies of the economy.