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What if A.I. gets 100x better in a matter of months? (Interconnected) I posted the other day about the current artificial intelligence cutting edge GPT-3, and its ability to write like a human.
But since running across the following article, the idea of an A.I. overhang has been stuck in my head: what if artificial intelligences could get 100-1,000x more competent in a matter of only months? An overhang is when you have had the ability to build transformative AI for quite some time, but you haven’t because no-one’s realised it’s possible. Then someone does and surprise! It’s a lot more capable than everyone expected.I am worried we’re in an overhang right now. I think we right now have the ability to build an orders-of-magnitude more powerful system than we already have, and I think GPT-3 is the trigger for 100x larger projects at Google, Facebook and the like, with timelines measured in months. Intel’s expected 2020 revenue is $73bn. At what point do self-driving cars effectively become solved… and what if it was in only 6 months?
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Blocking Calls. I implemented the scripts for Blockr, and found there was a ~2 second amount of time before the ringer would be silenced for calls I wanted to ignore/block.
My solution to the ringer issue requires setting the ring volume to zero by default, and then two profiles - one for what I want to accept, and one for handling the calls I don't want. Allowing Calls Download the Allow_Calls.prf.xmlPlace it in the Tasker/profiles folder on your phoneOpen TaskerAccess the menuSelect Profile DataSelect Import One ProfileSelect Allow_Calls from the list of available profilesClick the OK button to acknowledge risk of importingThe Allow Calls profile now appears in your Profiles list - edit to desired settings. Instructions Blocking Calls The following will setup Tasker to screen incoming calls. To set Tasker to not provide the caller with the ability to leave a voicemail, add a task for taking the call before ending it:
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