EU President: "We thought AI would only approach human reasoning around 2050. Now we expect this to happen already next year."
EU President: "We thought AI would only approach human reasoning around 2050. Now we expect this to happen already next year."
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Speech by President von der Leyen at the Annual EU Budget Conference 2025
These people are swallowing the hype without even testing the tools.
It's all to grift investors and CEOs who surrounded themselves with yes men get the same news as investors.
We literally can't get it with silicon chips, because silicon is a solid.
I was literally just watching some videos with a panel of the world leading physicists in this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdzXbIW9kxY
None of these tech bros understand what consciousness is, they're operating on way out of date oversimplified explanations and assuming there's nothing deeper.
The hope is that we don't actually need consciousness to produce something useful. And ultimately, that would be for the best. If we know definitively that silicon computing cannot result in consciousness, then many of the ethical concerns of using AIs disappear. You still have the ethical concerns of replacing human labor and using stolen work to train them, but at least you don't have to worry about creating a slave race in the process.
Nobody understands what consciousness is - nor is that even relevant here. Artificial Super Intelligence that isn’t conscious is a perfectly coherent concept. While it’s valid to discuss whether a system like that could be conscious, there’s absolutely no reason to assume it needs to be.
Von der Leyen certainly boarded the hype train some time ago.
Have you actually tested these tools? Because while they’re not flawless, I’d still say that even in their current form, they’re pretty damn good.
I love how quickly we get used to things. ChatGPT would’ve been considered straight-up magic ten years ago - and now we’re just shitting on it for the edge cases where it gets something blatantly wrong, while completely dismissing the countless times it does exactly what it’s supposed to.
It’s approaching the lower levels of human reasoning, which, as we have realized over the past few years, isn’t that impressive.
I have, they degrade very significantly whenever the context goes to 8000+ tokens.