We lost Vernor Vinge last year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge

We didn’t make it to the singularity but the race is on. Hope he realized we finally had a bit of a breakthrough.

I learned about the Zone of Thought series through another commenter here who mentioned the concept of a "programmer at arms" and "software archeology" and pointed to his second novel, A Deepness in the Sky.

I loved the whole series and now recommend them to folks looking for something wild and fun in the sci-fi realm.

RIP

Maybe its a recursive loop? Humans create AI, dies out, AI creates a Simulation tovrecreate its creators, humans build AI and so on..

It should be clear already that LLMs aren't a path to intelligence since they don't contain or exhibit any.

Knowing this, there is no approaching "singularity" of advanced machine intelligence.

He was spot on

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