Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The microtubules creating an environment that can sustain quantum super position just came out like a month ago.

  In all honesty the tech bros probably don’t even know yet, or understands it means human level AI speculation has essentially been disproven as happening anytime remotely soon.

  But I’m assuming when they do, they’ll just ignore it and double down to maintain share prices.

  It’s also possible it all crashes and billions of dollars disappear.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Microtubules have been pushed for decades without any proof. The latest paper wasn’t evidence but unsupported speculation.

    But more importantly the physics of computation that creates intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with understanding intelligence. Even if quantum effects are relevant ( which is extremely unlikely given the warm and moving environment inside the brain), it doesn’t answer anything about how humans are intelligent.

    Penrose used Quantum Mechanics as a “God in the Gaps” explanation. That worked 40 years ago but today we have working quantum computers but no human intelligence.

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    • Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So the senator from Alaska was right? The internet is all a bunch of tubes?

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