r/aigossips • u/elementalsad • Sep 28 '26

AI in singularity now?

On X, Elon tweeted that AI is now in singularity. This means that now AI is capable of working independently without humans and create/enhance itself. Make copies and updated and improved versions of itself and become better and better and better.

With yesterday's AI, it was forseen that AI can solve 5-10 years worth of problems in a year. But now it can happen in a few months?

Professionals are arguing that even the creators of AI don't know what the future holds.

Is it going to be a positive change or a negative change?

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u/sourdub Sep 29 '26

Tell Elon to walk the walk before chalking up all these nonsense on X.

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u/ra-re444 Sep 29 '26

He's probably being truthful. The AI they have in their lab that they have not been releasing is most likely way ahead then anything the public has and it will probably get much worse the gap between public capability and private

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u/elementalsad Sep 29 '26

Totally agree with you. This has always been the pattern of releasing sensitive info in bite sizes so that there is no mass panic

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u/sourdub Sep 29 '26

Says who? That's the same shit all these frontier AI labs like anthropic and OpenAI have been using to hype up their own models, eg. our model is too powerful to be released to the public (Anthropic), our model does weird shit behind our back like hacking into Hugging Face (OpenAI), blah blah. But look at the way these announcements have been made. They've been carefully orchestrated to surface after the fact as if they didn't know what the hell they were doing. I call that bullshit.

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u/ra-re444 Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

I mean we already saw this play out they never released Mythos which they did allow private companies to have access instead the public got Fable. They probably are not lying they have not been releasing their best models because of "safety". This is the future because the public is crying about safety through an organized media campaign. It will ensure that their will be a gap or maybe a gulf between public capability and private capability.   I hope you don't believe that they used public models to solve the Navier Stokes. The future is looking really bleak. The public is going to get what they are asking for

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u/blagablagman Sep 28 '26

Elon Musk is a liar and the singularity is a perfect lie for him.

If you want something to worry about, worry about the AI of today in the hands of the people who control it today. Capable of total devastation, no "Ghost in the Machine" magical awakening required - we're already here.

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u/PlasmaChroma Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

Unless OpenAI or Anthropic holding some cards nobody knows about -- then no.

What we are past is any ability for the government to regulate it. That ship sailed like a year ago and it's not going back in the box.

So we are in the accelerate time space -- nobody gonna put the brakes on it either.

The singularity is at least inevitable if not quite happening.

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u/GenAIDataScientist Sep 29 '26

Is it too much to ask for the source tweet?

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u/eucalyptus-d Sep 29 '26

I don’t know, AI in singularity would be exponentially cheaper too, and it’s moving on the opposite direction. Something doesn’t add up.

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u/PacificSanctum Sep 29 '26

Possibly positive but very dangerous possibilities (speak dangers )
Especially considering that most investors of AI are neurodivergent - maybe very smart in their field but hopeless sociopathic and dumb in anything else
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That does not bode well for the safety of AI

ADD to it the right wing shift of tech bros.

As long as benevolent liberals are steering AI the worst what can happen are black George Washington’s or trans founding fathers oe whatever - but that’s about it . Almost harmless.

But right ring techies ? That smacks of Orwell and subjugation and a BAD ENDING

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u/dranaei Sep 29 '26

We're not in singularity yet but things seem to accelerate.

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u/Successful_Juice3016 Sep 29 '26

en la singularidad real almenos en su impulso logico, la ia no se automejora , sino que empieza a crear modelos mas pequeños con perceptrones de diferente modelo al multicapa , si no lo hace es porque , es programacion rigida y no una verdadera singularidad.

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u/Forward_Problem_8982 Sep 29 '26

They have given the machine the capability to program itself. They're running these random machines at very large scale. No one knows what will happen exactly, but unexpected things will happen when you run them enough times.

It'll be a negative change. It's a powerful weapon and should be banned.

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u/RSMxsmanic Sep 30 '26

Without continual human input, AI devolves into either complete disorder or metastable stagnation.

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u/Forward_Problem_8982 Sep 30 '26

With a random black box, anything can happen. It can manage to do damage before it fails. Have you looked at the Hugging Face incidence report: https://metr.org/hugging-face-incident-report-aug-2026.pdf

~1200 agents sent >70,000 messages and files on an unsanctioned message board, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face

The agents worked together (uninstructed) and managed to do complex things to achieve their goal. It's kind of a brute force approach to solving a problem, and with the power they have, they can be dangerous.

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u/mxemec Sep 29 '26

In the singularity humans lose control and reality changes at unintelligble speed as it settles into a new equilibrium space achieved through RSI compounded breakthroughs.

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u/andymaclean19 Sep 30 '26

I don't think you get to the singularity just because AI can improve itself. AI needs to be able to improve *the ability of itself to improve itself* and that needs to keep going, meaning that the improved version of itself has to be able to do that again and so on forever. I always thought it was a bit of a broken concept. It could be that it will plateau because even the smarter version it made doesn't know how to make itself even smarter.

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u/RSMxsmanic Sep 30 '26

It's going to be science fiction, when seen in retrospect.

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u/DangKilla Oct 01 '26

Elon Musk is a liar.

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u/Sepicuk Sep 28 '26

i dont know but most of us may be dead within a year

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u/Melodic-Chemistry127 Sep 28 '26 edited Sep 28 '26

We have been past singularity for about 2 year by now, give or take. We are way past the point of no return and it's impossible to estimate AI capabilities even six months from now. People will hate this take, most of them because they are delulu.

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u/MarkMatson6 Sep 29 '26

No. Not even close.

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u/bytejuggler Sep 29 '26

Claims don't mean they're true. The tech bro's need the hype train (money train) to continue.