[ExI] Fwd: [Extropolis] Re: LLAMA3

[Adrian Tymes]

Yeah, no.  This is not even remotely the unlimited exponential self
improvement that defines the Singularity.

For those who aren't AI specialists, mere improvement on the numbers like
this has little to no direct impact.  Even a thousand fold - but not
self-directed - improvement overnight would, by itself, fall far short of
triggering an imminent Singularity.

Though I will grant that this will significantly directly affect more
people over the next couple years than transsexuals bathrooms.

On Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 5:25 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Best wishes,
>
> Keith
>
>
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> From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 4:27 PM
> Subject: [Extropolis] Re: LLAMA3
> To: <extropolis at googlegroups.com>, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
> <everything-list at googlegroups.com>
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>
>
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 7:11 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbrent at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > How about the war in Ukraine, Russian hacking, global warming,
> Chinese threats in the Taiwan strait and South China sea, and U.S.
> infrastructure decay?
>
>
> If the singularity happens in the next two or three years, which
> doesn't sound nearly as ridiculous as it would have 18 months ago,
> then every one of those things is of utterly trivial importance.
>
> John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis
> m5x
>
>
>
> > Meta (a.k.a. Facebook) released LLAMA3 just a few days ago, and it's
> amazing for three reasons:
> > 1) It's tiny, it only has 70 billion parameters, GPT4 is about 1.8
> trillion parameters.
> > 2) Despite its small size on AI benchmarks it's performance is just a
> smidgen below that of GPT4.
> > 3) It is open source.
> >
> > Meta says it's performance would be even better if they trained it for
> longer but they stopped early because the company's computational resources
> are large but not infinite so they decided that compute time could be
> better spent training a 400 billion parameter version of LLAMA3, which they
> say they'll release sometime in the next couple of months, and in
> developing LLAMA4.
> >
> > And anybody who still thinks the Singularity is not near really needs to
> look at the following video. I'll tell you one thing, it sure makes the
> issues that most Americans believe are the most important and which will
> probably decide the November election, excessive wokeness, the "invasion"
> from Mexico, and transsexual bathrooms, seem pretty damn trivial.
> >
> > LLAMA 3 *BREAKS* the Industry | Government Safety Limits Approaching |
> Will Groq kill NVIDIA?
> >
> >
> > pdt
> >
> >
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