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curl-6 said:
Scary4Eva said:

I had a poem published last month, and another one will be published next month.

That's awesome, is there somewhere we can read it?

It's in The Ranger's Almanac Vol. 1, and it's being sold on Amazon. Most of my writing is in anthologies or magazines, so it's not free to read. I have a 100-word story that was published a few years ago, and it's free to read. If you're interested in reading it, the story is here.



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LegitHyperbole said:
haxxiy said:

What we need is testing exotic scenarios (e.g., can you observe macroscopic superpositions?), but to my knowledge no one has proposed a viable experiment yet. We'll get there someday, but that won't be settled by quantum hardware, even if it scales to millions of qubits.

What it can get us is tremendous advances in material science and protein folding. I was once very skeptical of them, but now I think we'll see some viable quantum computers in the early 2030s, probably around the same time as the first generalist artificial intelligences. Exciting days ahead.

Exciting days is an understatement. Oh, and it's difficult to devise an experiment cause these things are such small scale, it would be easier and take less time to get to the edge of the known universe by 400,000 time than it would be to zoom into the planck length, the smallest proposed scale (apparently backed by math but I don't believe it). At at sub atomic scales the best that can be done is particle accelerators and these only show an instance of a shadow of what is happening, not even close to the true story. 

As long it doesn't need data centres, destroy the economy or lead to Skynet I'm ok with it.



CaptainExplosion said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Exciting days is an understatement. Oh, and it's difficult to devise an experiment cause these things are such small scale, it would be easier and take less time to get to the edge of the known universe by 400,000 time than it would be to zoom into the planck length, the smallest proposed scale (apparently backed by math but I don't believe it). At at sub atomic scales the best that can be done is particle accelerators and these only show an instance of a shadow of what is happening, not even close to the true story. 

As long it doesn't need data centres, destroy the economy or lead to Skynet I'm ok with it.

Nope. It might coverage parallel realities on top of each other or break decoherence (Im joking) but... the climate will be safe, it takes relatively low power to keep these things near absolute zero.  



LegitHyperbole said:
CaptainExplosion said:

As long it doesn't need data centres, destroy the economy or lead to Skynet I'm ok with it.

Nope. It might coverage parallel realities on top of each other or break decoherence (Im joking) but... the climate will be safe, it takes relatively low power to keep these things near absolute zero.  

Can quantum computing make AI that doesn't need data centres? Data centres and their consequences, and poorly implemented safety measures, are what's holding AI back.



CaptainExplosion said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Nope. It might coverage parallel realities on top of each other or break decoherence (Im joking) but... the climate will be safe, it takes relatively low power to keep these things near absolute zero.  

Can quantum computing make AI that doesn't need data centres? Data centres and their consequences, and poorly implemented safety measures, are what's holding AI back.

No not the same way LLM's are created and as far as I know nobody has put forward a method for neural networks with Qbits. I wouldn't be so quick to say it's better than LLMs though, this tech could break the Internet if it gets too advanced and make any encryption useless. You've now made me curious? I'll have to research and see if there is a path to neural networks with Qbits. 



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LegitHyperbole said:
CaptainExplosion said:

Can quantum computing make AI that doesn't need data centres? Data centres and their consequences, and poorly implemented safety measures, are what's holding AI back.

No not the same way LLM's are created and as far as I know nobody has put forward a method for neural networks with Qbits. I wouldn't be so quick to say it's better than LLMs though, this tech could break the Internet if it gets too advanced and make any encryption useless. You've now made me curious? I'll have to research and see if there is a path to neural networks with Qbits. 

I wouldn't have so many reservations about AI if it weren't for the data centres, and focus was put into making AIs that would actually help people, like an AI that called 911 during a medical emergency, or an AI that warned people about forest fires.



CaptainExplosion said:
LegitHyperbole said:

No not the same way LLM's are created and as far as I know nobody has put forward a method for neural networks with Qbits. I wouldn't be so quick to say it's better than LLMs though, this tech could break the Internet if it gets too advanced and make any encryption useless. You've now made me curious? I'll have to research and see if there is a path to neural networks with Qbits. 

I wouldn't have so many reservations about AI if it weren't for the data centres, and focus was put into making AIs that would actually help people, like an AI that called 911 during a medical emergency, or an AI that warned people about forest fires.

Yeah, it sucks on many levels but we best pray they pull it off or we are gonna go hungry if that bubble bursts alongside the disaster in Iran. 



LegitHyperbole said:
CaptainExplosion said:

I wouldn't have so many reservations about AI if it weren't for the data centres, and focus was put into making AIs that would actually help people, like an AI that called 911 during a medical emergency, or an AI that warned people about forest fires.

Yeah, it sucks on many levels but we best pray they pull it off or we are gonna go hungry if that bubble bursts alongside the disaster in Iran. 

I thought the AI bubble bursting would be a good thing.



CaptainExplosion said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Yeah, it sucks on many levels but we best pray they pull it off or we are gonna go hungry if that bubble bursts alongside the disaster in Iran. 

I thought the AI bubble bursting would be a good thing.

Not for the economies of the world, I'd expect nothing less than worse recession than 2008-10 and if not on par then bordering the great depression. Iran has already massively fucked things up. 20% of the world's oil stopped for that long and 30% of fertiliser. Heck, if the bubble doesn't burst we're still fairly fucked. We are in a bit of a lull because of government interventions but that pain is coming back around real soon. If the bubble burst now it would be the worst global disaster since WW2. It's a gigantic bubble not seen at its size before. 



LegitHyperbole said:
CaptainExplosion said:

I thought the AI bubble bursting would be a good thing.

Not for the economies of the world, I'd expect nothing less than worse recession than 2008-10 and if not on par then bordering the great depression. Iran has already massively fucked things up. 20% of the world's oil stopped for that long and 30% of fertiliser. Heck, if the bubble doesn't burst we're still fairly fucked. We are in a bit of a lull because of government interventions but that pain is coming back around real soon. If the bubble burst now it would be the worst global disaster since WW2. It's a gigantic bubble not seen at its size before. 

How is it vital for the economy? It's stealing jobs from people who desperately need employment to survive, like artists, writers, animators and coders, that's a shitload of people, many of whom can't find other work because they never trained for other jobs.