Solemarc

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[–] Solemarc@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

What am I supposed to be looking at? They post a lot? They post American, Aus, NZ stuff? What are you on about?

[–] Solemarc@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Isn't the EV tax effectively just a fuel excise tax for cars that don't use fuel? I mean, regardless of what this article thinks the fuel excise is described as "a sales tax on fuel that is reinvested into roads".

[–] Solemarc@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I remember being taught phonics in primary school in the 2000's, and I went to a public school so I don't understand why we think this is revolutionary either. Maybe it's just new in VIC? I'm from QLD

[–] Solemarc@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I agree with you, it was more of a commentary on "what would happen if we had AGI tomorrow".

We've been 3 months away from AGI for a few years now and it's debatable if we'll ever get there with LLM's. Looking into the results of AI tests and benchmarks show that they are heavily gamed (tbf, all benchmarks are gamed.) With AI though, there's so much money involved, it's ridiculous.

Fortunately it looks like reality is slowly coming back. Microsoft's CEO said that something like "AI solutions are not addressing customer problems." Maybe I'm in a bubble but I feel like overall, people are starting to cool on AI and the constant hype cycle.

[–] Solemarc@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'd agree that in the short term, AI is overhyped and in the long term, who really knows.

One thing I've always found funny though is that if we have AI's that can replace programmers then don't we also, by definition, have AI's that can create AI's? Isn't that literally the start of the "singularity", where every office worker is out of a job in a week and labourers only lasting long enough for our AI overlords to sort out robot bodies?