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Mici_Melanzana (mici_melanzana@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 23:37:38 JST Mici_Melanzana
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@thomasfuchs I agree but a lot of this depends on what you consider artificial intelligence, to some people a text model is AI, you could argue an algorithm is already a form of AI, but I guess what most people consider “real” AI is a computer that can think like a human. That’s already ironic if you ask me.

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  A Slightly Orange Cat (mbrailer@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 23:39:56 JST A Slightly Orange Cat
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  @thomasfuchs I'm assuming that AI, like all computer applications, is just a highly complex mathematical process.
  Faster computers would allow for more complex functions, but it would still be just a process and not true creativity.
  
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  Och Menno (ochmennopodcast@literatur.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 23:47:27 JST Och Menno
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  @thomasfuchs Railguns .. everyone forgets that darpa spent years on Railguns …
  
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  Och Menno (ochmennopodcast@literatur.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 23:57:40 JST Och Menno
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  @thomasfuchs yup
  
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  Och Menno (ochmennopodcast@literatur.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 00:03:33 JST Och Menno
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  @thomasfuchs zumwalt class was designed to carry Railguns ^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer
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    Zumwalt-class destroyer
    
    The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a class of three United States Navy guided-missile destroyers designed as multi-mission stealth ships with a focus on land attack. The class was designed with a primary role of naval gunfire support and secondary roles of surface warfare and anti-aircraft warfare. The class design emerged from the DD-21 "land attack destroyer" program as "DD(X)" and was intended to take the role of battleships in meeting a congressional mandate for naval fire support. The ship is designed around its two Advanced Gun Systems (AGS), turrets with 920 round magazines, and unique Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) ammunition. LRLAP procurement was canceled, rendering the guns unusable, so the Navy re-purposed the ships for surface warfare. Starting in 2023, the Navy will remove the AGS from the ships and replace them with hypersonic missiles.The ships are classed as destroyers, but they are much larger than any other active destroyers or cruisers in the U.S. Navy. The vessels' distinctive appearance results from the design requirement for a low radar cross-section (RCS). The Zumwalt class has a wave-piercing...
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  Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 00:17:20 JST Raven667
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  @thomasfuchs @mbrailer I think at some point you could achieve the complexity of a human brain, which is itself not made of magic but of complex physics processes that could be emulated and modeled, but only at _enormous_ expense with silicon. All of the computer neural networks in the world put together can do, what, a tiny fraction of what _anyone_ can do with a kilo of grey matter and less than 100 watts, their approach will _never_ achieve the power efficiency that biology has done.
  
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  Michael Kranz (mkranz@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 00:28:32 JST Michael Kranz
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  @thomasfuchs isn’t there also evidence that Moore’s Law may be so predictable simply because of the expectations *it* puts on the industry and consumers rather than because of any “natural” feature of transistors or innovation. Not sure how that artifice would be transferable to anything with real limitations (even wrt transistors, as we’re now seeing)
  
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  Keith (keydelk@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 00:39:37 JST Keith
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  @raven667 @thomasfuchs @mbrailer it’s not just the complexity that matters, but how the system is structured that gives rise to real intelligence. My biggest frustration with this current wave of AI hype is that it is so divorced from any studies of actual human cognition.
  We take “neural networks” (a statistical algorithm for finding trends in large and messy data sets), throw tons of data on it, and pretend it’s “on the verge of becoming AGI.”
  
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  Michael Kranz (mkranz@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 03:16:34 JST Michael Kranz
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  @thomasfuchs oh, no doubt. I think, in the years since he coined it, though, many have taken it to be some kind of force of nature that results in technological progress happening, as you put it, linearly or geometrically, when we that wouldn’t have necessarily happened (for a time, at least) for transistors without the self-fulfilling prophecy. I don’t think any of that is what Moore intended, though
  
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  botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 20:27:50 JST botvolution
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  @thomasfuchs
  Nobody tell them that x tends to zero
  
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