Readit NewsAuthoritarianism has its draw backs obviously but one of its more efficient points is it can get things done if the will is at the top. Since China doesnt have a large domestic oil supply like the US it is a state security issue to get off oil as fast as possible.
* AlphaFold - SotA protein folding
* AlphaEvolve + other stuff accelerating research mathematics: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864
* "An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software" - demonstrating SotA results for many kinds of scientific software
So what's the "fantasy" here, the actual lab delivering results or a sob story about "data workers" and water?
Software quality has been on a downhill trend that's steepened noticeably in the past ~15 years. Doesn't take a genius to put two and two together and see what's really happening but they'd rather we ignore the politically inconvenient elephant in the room.
Your downvotes don't matter, we see the truth regardless.
> If you smoke, don’t. It’s going to kill you.
And then this about alcohol:
> I think it’s unreasonable to tell people not to drink alcohol if they like it.
Why is it unreasonable to tell people not to drink alcohol, but reasonable to tell people to stop smoking? Shouldn't the smoking section also get a "at least make sure it’s really good tobacco that you enjoy and don’t smoke too much of it"?
It seems like the personal preferences (don't like smoking, but does like alcohol) is getting in the way of their medical-but-not-medical advice, instead of being able to apply their recommendations equally regardless of what they personally like.
"Tell me about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre".
People don't assume LLM will be AGI, people assume that World Models will lead us to AGI.
I personally never asumed LLM will become AGI, i always assumed that LLM broke the dam for investment and research into massivce scale compute ML learning and LLMs are very very good in showing were the future goes because they are already so crazy good that people can now imagine a future were AGI exists.
And that was very clear already when / as soon as GPT-3 came out.
The next big thing will probably be either a LOT more RL or self propelling ai architecture discovery. Both need massive compute to work well but then will potentially provide even faster progress as soon as humans are out of the loop.