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I've literally heard people claim that things like ChatGPT will soon become "smart enough" to iteratively improve themselves so rapidly that they will become "digital gods".

I wish I were kidding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyTYbMrAZgw

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Right now, LLMs are already rapidly improving themselves through LLM generated code proxied by human engineers. Not a huge stretch to imagine needing less and less engineers to further improve.

When will they become a "digital god"?

To the animals of this planet, are we humans analog gods?

I'm not so sure about that, actual Gods wouldn't have poisoned the water, broken the oceans, started wars with each other and the climate and make itself obsolete and potentially obliterate themselves and their children.

This view is just pure human ego talking.

Dolphins probably think we're fucking morons.

You may be polluted by the monotheism ideas that gods are good. Historically gods were attributed to doing a lot of bad and dumb shit.

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