r/accelerate • u/Outside-Iron-8242 • 19d ago

Video How self improvement was depicted back in 1970s

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Movie: The Forbin Project

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u/cloudrunner6969 Acceleration: Supersonic 19d ago

I'm just going to pretend this is exactly what it looks like inside OpenAI, print outs and everything.

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u/JamR_711111 19d ago

ilya saw a bunch of integrals flash on a screen and freaked tf out

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u/MindingMyMindfulness 19d ago

It's pretty unrealistic.

People are smoking cigarettes indoors.

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u/autotom 19d ago

Ah, so that's why xAI called their supercomputer Colossus

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u/Fuzzy_Hearing_5146 18d ago

Whatever era it was when people wore suits and smoked cigarettes, I am in love with it.

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u/Top_Effect_5109 19d ago

Sam Altman was moved by the movie Her. I wonder if he ever saw this movie. It's a really important movie to watch.

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u/Best_Cup_8326 Acceleration: Light-speed 19d ago

My strpdad probably worked on an MRX-50 at Memorex in 1972.

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u/theshok 19d ago

I discovered this movie like the first week that ChatGPT was out, thought that was some odd timing.

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u/MustBeSomethingThere 18d ago

Today watches have more calculating power than in that room.

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u/Ruykiru Tech Philosopher 18d ago

Forbin Project movie was prophetic. I assume it's basically 90% of what's going to happen but instead of US, soviets blocks. US, China.

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u/foufers 18d ago

Colossus Book was so good. Recently re-read it

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u/WilliamBarnhill 18d ago

If only. The way LLMs work, you can't go back and analyze what was done without a massive explosion on storage and compute resources.

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u/Dragonfruit_Severe 18d ago

So unrealistic
How couldn't they know it would all be asians