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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (13 children)

When people talk about AI taking off exponentially, usually they are talking about the AI using its intelligence to make intelligence-enhancing modifications to itself. We are very much not there yet, and need human coaching most of the way.

At the same time, no technology ever really follows a particular trend line. It advances in starts and stops with the ebbs and flows of interest, funding, novel ideas, and the discovered limits of nature. We can try to make projections - but these are very often very wrong, because the thing about the future is that it hasn't happened yet.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I do expect advancement to hit a period of exponential growth that quickly surpasses human intelligence. Given it adapts the drive to autonmously advance. Whether that is possible is yet to be seen and that's kinda my point.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ask ChatGPT to list every U.S. state that has the letter 'o' in its name.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here are all 27 U.S. states whose names contain the letter “o”:

Arizona

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Illinois

Iowa

Louisiana

Minnesota

Missouri

Montana

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Vermont

Washington

Wisconsin

Wyoming

(That’s 27 states in total.)

What's missing?

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, did they finally fix it? I guess a lot of people were seeing it fail and they updated the model. Which version of ChatGPT was it?

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