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0 pointsgonehome3y ago0 comments

This is wrong, computers can operate at billions of operations per second. You can wave hands and say the words “thermodynamics” but it doesn’t actually mean anything.

The claim that computers just can’t do X because “physics” looks weaker every day. Intelligence isn’t magic, hardware today seems more than capable. I think Carmack is probably right, it’s not a hardware constraint at this point - it’s a software intuitive leap.

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flappyeagle3y ago· 1 in thread

> Intelligence isn’t magic, hardware today seems more than capable. I think Carmack is probably right, it’s not a hardware constraint at this point - it’s a software intuitive leap.

This is all ass-pulling. The hardware is or is not good enough (it's not). We either have found a software breakthrough or not (we haven't).

tanseydavid3y ago

>> We either have found a software breakthrough or not (we haven't).

Well it is not clearly not AGI but even the improvement from GPT3 to GPT4 seems to me at least to reflect what one might describe as a "software breakthrough."

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