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On this day in 1983, Return of the Jedi hit theaters for the first time. Now, 42 years later, it remains one of the most important and emotional chapters in the Star Wars saga.
This was the final part of the original trilogy. Luke Skywalker embraced his destiny as a Jedi. Darth Vader made his ultimate choice. The Emperor was defeated. The Rebellion rose victorious. The galaxy changed forever. It wrapped up the journey of heroes and villains in a way that felt powerful, personal, and unforgettable.
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Happy 42 years to this timeless masterpiece.
A celebration of victory, family, and the power of choosing the light.

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Yeah, I think too much is made out of the conversation about whether or not AI, or AGI, could ever achieve self-awareness.....sentience....person-hood....whatever.  It's very interesting in a philosophical sense, but actually unnecessary for a lot of the potential problems with stuff like this.  Not "wanting" to shut itself off and finding ways to do it even when expressly forbidden doesn't require a will, just an algorithm that reached a model which says "Option A" even if Human Overlord says "Not Option A."

Don't need machines to be people in order to wind up in an I, Robot situation (Will Smith, not Asimov). Just need a fancy enough black-box algorithm that nobody understands. 

Well said, and this is the exact point I typically bring up in these discussions.  The philosophical discussion is interesting in and of itself, but it's irrelevant to the potential eventuality of machines independently doing things we didn't expect and do not want.

Nothing cures existential nihilism like boobs, I guess.  

As a counterbalance to growing sentiments of dread and the impending Rise Of The Machines, I've recently heard the thoughts of some who are waist-deep in the AI world, and they noted that we're currently at a plateau, with the potential to stay there, at least for a while.  In a nutshell, they reason that we've effectively already fed large AI models the entire internet (basically), and there's not much more left for them to train on.  It's to the point now where the new data the models receive is just output from other AI models.*  It's creating sort of a data-inbreeding effect, and the results aren't really improving.  

Other people have a different opinion, and the level and type of AI they're talking about is beyond my personal experience so I don't really take one side or the other.  

Something else to consider, as far as AI replacing jobs/people, is the financials haven't been solved yet.  OpenAI still loses a lot of money, and LLMs suck up a tremendous amount of power and $.  I haven't seen any realistic long-term plans yet for using AI to, for example, replace software engineers.  

* reminder:  don't put anything in AI software, particularly the LLMs, that you don't want out there, probably traceable to you.  Those conversations are collected, sold, and passed around just like cell phone apps collect data about you.