Singularity

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Everyone’s worried about AI taking over jobs but today the coffee machine at my office malfunctioned and sprayed all the milk outside my cup. The screen said “Enjoy your beverage!” Guess it failed the art of smiling while serving. Point of this post? Idk submitted by /u/huttindo [link] [comments]

As we edge toward AI systems that can act autonomously—or even become superintelligent—one challenge we’ll face is: how do these systems understand how humans prefer to work and communicate? Suppose every person could host a tiny JSON file on their domain—something like .well-known/poy/rules.json—that conveys their working style, response preferences, and boundaries in structured machine-readable form. An AGI or future AI assistant could fetch that and tailor its behavior immediately—opening windows at your preferred hours, keeping things async, respecting your response time, and surfacing your past contributions. Is this a plausible infrastructure idea for AI alignment? Something that could scale into the singularity future? Would love to hear perspectives from anyone thinking deeply about human‑AI compatibility, HCI, or AI governance. submitted by /u/ibexmonj [link] [comments]

I really don’t care anymore. We’ll find a solution like we always have. AI taking over the world? Have fun with it. It’s a bad place already anyway, so make it worse. Try your best. submitted by /u/rowdt [link] [comments]

I write for a bunch of magazines (amongst other things). For the last three or four years I’ve occasionally tested AI by saying “write an article in my style for magazine X” (which happens to be the most prestigious of the magazines I work for). The output I receive has steadily improved in that time, but never come close to being publishable. Never even looked like a good first draft – too chaotic, too repetitive, too many errors. At best I’ve saved time on research, or been gifted a funny line. Then last week AI nailed it. Opening to end, a solid first draft, something I’d be pleased with – it “wrote” the article in 40 seconds. All the facts were correct, no hallucinations (I asked AI to prove this; it did so with citations). I only had to tweak the piece – add some personal interest, polish some prose – and it was entirely ready. I hesitated before sending it off. But then I decided it would be an interesting experiment. I sent it off. In reply I got the highest praise I’ve ever had from my commissioning editor. submitted by /u/FitzrovianFellow [link] [comments]

Main reason behind this he says is that models now have genuine fluid intelligence, and at some point in the coming years we are likely to scale up the right ideas that lead to AGI https://youtu.be/1if6XbzD5Yg?si=EYNXCbLwUkFDWIVt submitted by /u/Severe_Sir_3237 [link] [comments]

Thought-provoking article by Charlie Warzel. His greatest fear: “What if generative AI isn’t God in the machine or vaporware? What if it’s just good enough, useful to many without being revolutionary?“ Personally, I’m a believer in the eventual AGI revolution. It’s not to say there aren’t many pitfalls that we’ll face as a consequence. NOTE: The Atlantic is paywalled. Perhaps someone will share excerpts, a gift link, or an Internet Archive link in the comments. If on an Apple device, the article can be opened in Apple News+. submitted by /u/CouscousKazoo [link] [comments]

From multiple authors, with links and supporting material. I highly recommend it. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kgb58RL88YChkkBNf/the-problem submitted by /u/RickJS2 [link] [comments]

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–It is a known and common problem that moderation on Reddit can be inconsistent, odd, and sometimes unreasonable. Mods often do not respond or explain what even happened so you can understand for the future. It seems to me that one of the best and most fitting places to experiment with this is right here, in r/singularity . ***This is not an attack on the mods***: They donate their time to what must be a very hard and draining job. They are only human at the end of the day, however. This is to fix the shortcomings and make their lives easier. –My basic idea is this, set up an AI system to assist in moderating. I do not mean “bots”, I mean something using GPT-5 or Gemini, or something similar. *** I will now go into more detail. If you do not like this idea, please explain why. Even better though, explain how you would improve it *** Now will explain piece by piece, as well as my rational and reasoning 1: —Why AI? Simple: Modern SOTA AI is very good at nuance, understanding rules, and just understanding in general. It is fair and even handed if prompted to be. It is superhuman in speed and ability to synthesize and comprehend large amounts of information. It is also (generally) inexpensive compared to human effort. 2: –Basic implementation: Basic Setup: Have AI look at posts, and maybe comments (why not, right?), to judge if they are following the rules and spirit of the subreddit. This is simple, just a judgement call. However, also give information (context) about past posts/comments in the subreddit, from the user, and maybe even from Reddit in general. Allow the AI to clearly explain its reasoning and, if appropriate, ways to improve. More detail: When it responds it can explain in detail the violation and (possibly) have a small discussion with the offender. It can change tone to match the violation. For example: “slur slur slur, he a worthless slur” would get a blunt and scolding response. Something like “Dreams of AI” that is in good faith but perhaps just too low quality or off-topic would get a warmer and more “understanding” response. 3: –What about the human moderators? Yes, keep the mods: The mods can be there for more edge or uncertain cases, extreme action, and appeals. The AI can say “I am unsure, this is tricky” and hand it off to the mods. It can also say “This seems fine to me, but it is getting a lot of reports and downvotes” and also hand that off to the mods. Extreme action and appeals go directly to the mods. 4: –Technical challenges / difficulty Power of many: I do not know, and do not pretend to know, how hard this would be to implement. However r/Singularity has nearly 4 million users and more niche, technical subreddits, might have thousands of very skilled people. If some people volunteered to help the mods I think this could be implemented just fine. Also if Reddit itself got on board I am confident it could be. ***That is all. Please share you thoughts to make r/Singularity a better place*** submitted by /u/ezjakes [link] [comments]

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https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-perception-of-time “AI systems are not limited by biological processing speeds and can perceive time with unprecedented precision, discovering cause-and-effect relationships that occur too quickly for human perception. In our hyperconnected world, this could lead to wide-scale Rashomon effects, where multiple observers give conflicting perspectives on events.” submitted by /u/AngleAccomplished865 [link] [comments]

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Everyone’s debating AGI in 2027 vs 2035. Meanwhile, someone RIGHT NOW is manually copying customer emails into a spreadsheet. We’re so focused on “will AI replace doctors?” that we’re blind to the fact that 80% of office work is just moving information from Box A to Box B. AI can do that TODAY. Not future AI. Current AI. For $20/month. Right now, this very second: Someone is copy-pasting between two systems that could talk to each other Someone is manually creating reports that could generate themselves Someone is typing the same email template for the 400th time Someone is updating the same data in 5 different places Someone spent 3 hours finding specific clauses in contracts an AI could find in 3 seconds Sharon from accounting is still manually entering invoice numbers. One. By. One. While AI that can process 10,000 invoices in seconds just… exists. Unused. We have the tech to automate 60% of white-collar work RIGHT NOW. But we’re too busy having philosophical debates about consciousness to notice. The singularity isn’t coming. It’s been here since 2023. Someone’s probably automating their entire department over a weekend right now. They just won’t tell anyone. submitted by /u/Kindly_Manager7556 [link] [comments]

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https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=25216505&gfv=1 Developed with WIRobotics’ proprietary mechanisms and control technologies, the newly unveiled ALLEX comprises a new high-degree-of-freedom (DOF) robotic hand that senses reaction forces like a human and yields compliantly to external loads; a highly backdrivable robot arm with more than 10 times lower friction and rotational inertia than conventional collaborative robot arms; and a upper body with a gravity compensation mechanism. With precise force control and flexible motion, ALLEX significantly expands applicability in fields that require direct interaction with people, including services, manufacturing, and household tasks submitted by /u/Distinct-Question-16 [link] [comments]

Researchers from Altos Labs described a new unifying feature of aging – mesenchymal drift. In many human tissues, with age and in various diseases, cells lose their identity, mesenchymal genes that are inherent to fibroblasts/stroma become increasingly active. This drift is associated with more severe disease progression and worse survival. Partial reprogramming with Yamanaka factors restores youthful expression patterns and cellular identity. submitted by /u/ilkamoi [link] [comments]

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May be paywalled for some. Mine wasn’t: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-comes-up-with-bizarre-physics-experiments-but-they-work/ “First, they gave the AI all the components and devices that could be mixed and matched to construct an arbitrarily complicated interferometer. The AI started off unconstrained. It could design a detector that spanned hundreds of kilometers and had thousands of elements, such as lenses, mirrors, and lasers. Initially, the AI’s designs seemed outlandish. “The outputs that the thing was giving us were really not comprehensible by people,” Adhikari said. “They were too complicated, and they looked like alien things or AI things. Just nothing that a human being would make, because it had no sense of symmetry, beauty, anything. It was just a mess.” The researchers figured out how to clean up the AI’s outputs to produce interpretable ideas. Even so, the researchers were befuddled by the AI’s design. “If my students had tried to give me this thing, I would have said, ‘No, no, that’s ridiculous,’” Adhikari said. But the design was clearly effective. It took months of effort to understand what the AI was doing. It turned out that the machine had used a counterintuitive trick to achieve its goals. It added an additional three-kilometer-long ring between the main interferometer and the detector to circulate the light before it exited the interferometer’s arms. Adhikari’s team realized that the AI was probably using some esoteric theoretical principles that Russian physicists had identified decades ago to reduce quantum mechanical noise. No one had ever pursued those ideas experimentally. “It takes a lot to think this far outside of the accepted solution,” Adhikari said. “We really needed the AI.”” submitted by /u/AngleAccomplished865 [link] [comments]

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1952732206176112915 submitted by /u/GraceToSentience [link] [comments]