When it comes to dealing with advertisements when they’re surfing on their browsers. I’ve just learned recently about how Google has or is killing UBlock Origin on the Chrome browser as well as all Chromium based browsers too.

We’ve heard for years about people complaining, bitching, whining and vice versa about how they keep seeing ads. And those trying to help them, keep wasting time to tell these people that they’re surfing without extensions. Whether it’d be on Chrome or Firefox or another browser.

By this point, I’ve long stopped being that helper because if you cared at all about the advertisements you see, you would’ve long had gotten on the wagon of getting adblockers by now. You bring this onto yourself.

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    That would require an actual AGI to emerge, which it has not and is not going to. LLMs are fancy text prediction tools and little more.

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      Are you assuming LLMs are the only way humans could ever try making an AGI? If so, why do you assume that?

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        There’s more important shit than worrying about if an unproven sci fi concept will come to being any time soon.

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          Yeah, agreed. That’s not what I asked though.

          This response is a bit of a misdirection since we all discuss shit that isn’t the most important all the time.

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        I agree that AGI is dangerous but I don’t see LLMs as evidence that we’re close to AGI, I think they should be treated as separate issues.

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          Given what I think I know about LLMs, I agree. I don’t think they’re the path to AGI.

          The person I replied to said AGI was never going to emerge.

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      What we see in AI as an average consumer is like the RC hotwheels to a state of the art tank being used by big corps.

      Just imagine that if an early LLM can fool an engineer into thinking it’s sentient, what a state of the art system can do, one designed to predict the market, run propaganda bots on social media or straight up manufacture news stories with the footage to back it up.

      The AI being used by big corporations is so advanced, it’s one of the reasons countries have been trying to digitally isolate themselves. It’s really not an if, it’s a when.

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          I do. I did get a little lost in the weeds with my point though, as I was talking in a more general sense about how AI is already powerful and dangerous - because AI safety is a subject in this thread.

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        The “AI” being used by big corporations is still fundamentally an LLM and has all the flaws of an LLM. It’s not a hot wheels car vs a tank, it’s a hot wheels car vs a $2 billion RC car