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Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy (www.theregister.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What I want is a personal assistant that knows me extremely well, is able to tirelessly work on my behalf, and has a personality tailored to my needs and interests.

and you're not concerned at all about this information being compromised and used against you?

phew.....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Of course I'm concerned about it. That's why I would take measures to ensure the information is well protected. I already run local LLMs and image generators for most of the stuff I use AI for, both to ensure that I have control over what sort of outputs they generate and to keep any inputs I run through them private. An AGI assistant like what I'm describing is something I would want to run on my own hardware too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you really think you'll be able to run a full fledged, real-feeling AGI on home hardware?

Perhaps an assistant, maybe...

but good on you for forethought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yes, I do. Perhaps not the current generation of hardware, but the chip manufacturers are currently throwing hundreds of billions of dollars into designing the next generation of AI-specialized hardware so I expect the next generation to be very impressive. The software has also been getting more efficient, making better use of the hardware that already exists. I've been experimenting a lot with it.