The AI demons keep preaching about TheSingularityTM. They’re using the word backwards to fool idiot investors.
In math a singularity is a point on a graph where you can’t figure it. Perhaps it’s heading toward infinity, or toward 0/0, or some other value that can’t be calculated.
When a real world process has a graph with a singularity, you have to KNOW IN ADVANCE where those WILD points are, and take great pains to keep the process AWAY from those points. How you avoid the problem depends on the situation.
In programming you can guard the gate with approximations:
if Y == 0.0000: Y = 0.0001 Result = X / Y
The result will be close enough to what “should” happen when y is 0.
In finance you stop compounding at a predetermined limit like the bond’s maturity date. In engineering you might place a centrifugal governor on the shaft, or close the dam gate at a predetermined flow, or let the graphite rods drop into the reactor.
Altman and his satanic buddies want us to think the opposite. They say TheSingularityTM is a point where the function MUST run wild, and their job is to INSURE IT DOES RUN WILD.
They don’t put fences around their alligators because their purpose in life is to KILL EVERYTHING. When an alligator escapes from Altman’s unfenced yard, Altman blames the alligator and we happily invest more trillions instead of jailing him and killing his alligators.
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