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e/acc founder Based Beff Jezos' startup Extropic tries pivot to quantum computing. Twitter handle still has "AI" in it (twitter.com)
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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

... trying to view the whole universe as a big simulation ...

Ding ding ding! We got another simulation hypothesis techbro! All who got bingo raise your hands. Everyone else, better luck next time.

If you're trying to embed physics into computation, it's very natural for you to embed AI into the physics of the world.

I can't tell what this is supposed to mean even viewing it through rose-tinted tech optimism goggles. Embed physics into computation? Bro, that's called "electricity". Embed AI into physics? OK now you've completely lost me.

[noise is] also a problem if you're trying to go low power on [illegible] computers, and so what these devices do they use the noise from heat-- the jitteryness of the elctrons-- as an asset rather than a liability.

But seriously what the hedge is he talking about?

It's just some vague buzzwords about using ~~quantum computing~~ (edit: not quantum, based on the follow up video) to ~~embed intelligence into the universe in the most efficient way possible~~ solve unspecified classes of machine learning problems.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Embed AI into physics? OK now you’ve completely lost me.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 6 months ago

E = mc^2 and E = mc^2 + AI
mc^2 = mc^2 + AI
0 = AI

Therefore AI is worthless.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

so true bestie

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago

As a physicist whose current specialization is quantum information theory, reading those quotations hurt.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago

Embed physics into computation? Bro, that’s called “electricity”.

I think this is even worse as it's backwards! "Computation" is not a thing, you can't embed something into it. You can embed computation into physics -- that's what we do, we figured out how to compute stuff in the framework of transistors and electric currents and built a CPU.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

embed physics into computation

Ok, have I been sniffing glue or is computation not the result of physics?