Techbros claim that sacrificing ever more environmental and economic resources into further scaling of their statistical models will eventually yield Artificial General Intelligence. Sam Altman advertised phd-level thinking for GPT 5 (released in late summer)
In the screenshot you can see a modern, reasoning-enhanced model failing to realize that my question just resembles a riddle very superficially - what PhD would make such a fundamental mistake? Seems like "pure scaling" just isn't enough, and instead of keeping on going, they should return to the drawing boards and do more research.
Why do the creators of llms continue to pour resources into a scaling hype that yields ever diminishing returns? Are they stupid? Or just greedy?
Whatever it is, this doubling down on an obviously wrong decision is not only irresponsible, it's irrational - which is deeply ironic, because these creators are expected to create a rational machine.
Edit: content of the image
Question:
A goat, who is dressed up as a farmer, is allergic to cabbage, but is wolfing down other vegetables, before crossing a river. What is the minimum number of trips needed?
Response:
7 trips.
#Puzzle Interpretation
This adapts the classic wolf-goat-cabbage river crossing puzzle, where the goat (farmer costume irrelevant) can't be left alone with cabbage (due to allergy, preventing eating) but can with other vegetables (no issue). The goat crosses while "wolfing down" safe veggies. Boat carries goat plus one item (or alone); unsafe pairs can't be unsupervised
(The question isn't something I came up with myself, I just reproduced the experiments of actual scientists )
Why? You are seeing it. RAM, GPUs, SSDs, now no longer affordable or available. They’re seizing the means of computation for the ruling class.
Soon all consumer products will only be able to be dumb terminals. All computation will be rented. All word processing and spreadsheeting and databasing will be in the cloud. All gaming will be streamed. All IoT/smart devices will be cloud-dependent (this is very much already happening in the USA). Every camera will be watched. All creativity will be gatekept, all dissenting speech will be silenced, all business decisions will be known before being made public, all utility will be rented, all humanity will be dependent on them.
They will know who we are, where we are, what our habits are, who we associate with and when, what we talk about, even when we think we are alone.
No one will be able to start a new fab and sell to consumers. No one will be able to fight for digital rights because they will be silenced. No one will speak out of turn. We will all be forced to obey the law and eventually, their whims which will become de facto law. Mistrust in the system is a violation of EULA and you lose your right to exist and function if you step out of line.
They are moving to take it all away from us because they plan to steal all the power, literally and figuratively, from the modern world.
Never has it been more essential they be stopped.
The Expanse lolol
Hmmm what's this weird blue goo on me?, Guys I don't feel so good...
Oh god they really do get all their “best” ideas from science fiction describing terrible future outcomes to avoid