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The Future Worth Building Is Human – Thinking Machines Lab

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human/
35•bilsbie•1h ago

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api•50m ago
My experience is that AI is just that, a “mech suit for your brain.” It has no creativity or volition but has superhuman memory, superhuman speed, and superhuman context in some narrow cases.

So it takes a thought and unfolds it, looks up relevant thoughts and information, elaborates, works through implications, and in some cases can execute.

You could do all that but like doing math manually it would take forever. You could manually calculate a spreadsheet too.

jdiff•34m ago
Won't you suffer from muscle atrophy in a such a low-G environment?
short_sells_poo•27m ago
Inevitably yes, the question is whether the combined cyborg is still better than the original human.

E.g. I'm sure we are generally less skilled in mental arithmetic since the advent of the calculator, but it has allowed us to solve vastly more complex problems in the end.

bflesch•16m ago
Can't atrophy something that never existed.
halfax•35m ago
so in this new AI LM / agent world , AI is only going to be as good as the "AI Conductor". The human which can build the rules, validate the output , and Conduct the AI properly
loa_in_•8m ago
Or a whole lot of people. Like a team who put human beings in space. We can do great things that a single person cannot.
moralestapia•35m ago
Oh man, all of these press releases are definitely worth billions of dollars.
Rebuff5007•32m ago
This is the 6th blog post, making the average cost per post only $333 million! What a steal for the VCs.
siquick•19m ago
They're making a "few hundred million of ARR" - not bad for a company who only launched their first product, a training platform called Tinker in October last year.

https://x.com/deedydas/status/2072340532718887068

q8zd3•31m ago
Great time to be a PR firm owner.
brk•28m ago
I guess we are recycling company names now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation

(I know, Corp vs. Lab).

Oras•25m ago
> We train strong models

Where? When? Unless I missed any of their models

samuell•23m ago
While I understand this is a PR talk for a startup, I think the text itself contains a number of interesting observations.

Regarding the idea of distributed models communicating with each other, I have also been thinking (and writing [1]) along those lines, where I see that the data amounts needed to fully digitalize ourselves and our society requires far too much storage if just serialized (limited by bandwidth if nothing else), while smart, updateable models are actually a much better storage medium for such information, as it can communicate only the important bits (any new information) on a higher level, with each other.

The other observation here that rings bells for me is how I think lessons from trying to develop intelligent systems should upvalue the human mind rather than devalue it, as we start to treat it less like an ad-hoc thing, and more like the finely tuned machine it is, which also benefits greatly from optimizing what data we feed it with, the architecture of solution strategies etc. All of which is an area where humans and machines can do wonders together [2].

[1] https://livingsystems.substack.com/p/the-future-of-data-less...

[2] https://livingsystems.substack.com/p/ai-progress-should-upgr...

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