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Image generation: Midjourney exponential progress

AI didn’t spend a long time with roughly human-level ability to imitate art styles, before it became vastly superhuman at this skill. Yet for some reason, people seem happy to stake the future on the assumption that AI will spend a long time with ~par-human science ability.

V3 Released on Jul 25 2022

V6 Released on Dec 21 2023

What if AIs improve this fast at science? What if AIs improve this fast at programming/hacking? What if AIs improve this fast at making superviruses? What if AIs improve this fast at most jobs? What if AIs improve this fast at persuasion?

@sama said “i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes” Did our ancestral environment prepare us for change this rapid? It’s not just art, AIs are rapidly becoming superhuman in skill after skill:

“See also: the first professional-level Go AI rapidly giving way to vastly superhuman Go AI; early calculating machines vastly exceeding human performance at arithmetic; etc. When you can automate a task at all, you can often do it better, and ~always at enormous scale.”

Midjourney speed of progress is truly insane

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Even the best utopian scenario of a fully automated “solved world” is actually dystopian AF !!!

I want you to picture this:
You wake up tomorrow in your bed that adjusts to your perfect sleep cycle. Your coffee brewed exactly how you like it. Your news curated for your bubble, your entertainment selected for your mood and your feel… NOTHIN! Cuz somewhere in the night while you were sleeping, the world learned to run without you.

Your job… AUTOMATED! your creativity… REPLICATED! your expertise… DOWNLOADED! Your perspective… SIMULATED! your passion projects… GENERATED IN SECONDS!

You sit there in your perfect automated morning with your perfect, personalised everything and you realise:

NOBODY CALLED! NOBODY TEXTED! NOBODY NEEDS YOU TO SOLVE ANYTHING! NOBODY NEEDS YOU.  NOBODY NEEDS YOU TO CREATE ANYTHING! NOBODY NEEDS YOU TO SHOW UP! NOBODY NEEDS. NOBODY NEEDS YOU.

And that feeling you’ve been pushing down,

that dread creeping up your spine, that voice you’ve been silencing, finally speaks…

“Will I matter anymore?”

Do I… matter anymore?

(To be clear, I don’t approve open-sourcing, as it’s probably exacerbating things, but just highlighting the hypocrisy)

The AI does not love you. Nor does it hate you, but you are made out of letters that can be used to spell something else. ___OK_______

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