Machine Learning / AI / SkyNet / Fields of Skulls

Rather odd!

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Yebut whatabout house prices?

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Iā€™m quite fascinated by this - Iā€™ve several very solid friendships with people Iā€™ve never met in person, and may well never do so. How different that is from an online friendship with an AI, Iā€™m not really sure. I suspect for me, knowing itā€™s an AI means it will never feel real - but then again Iā€™m not entire sure Iā€™d be able to tell if it was someone Iā€™d been conversing with thinking they were real.

Obviously thereā€™s a yawning gulf between that an ā€œIā€™m in a committed relationship with a computer programā€, that feels like a very significant step further.

This is what happens when you donā€™t wash-out your Fleshlights afterwardsā€¦

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1807881527084093547

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I wonder if theyā€™re running anywhere near the mechanical limits rather than the computational ones ? e.g. Do they have to worry about the cubeā€™s works breaking because theyā€™re being accelerated and decelerated so fast ? Or does the very high rotation speed risk melting the plasticā€™s surface due to frictional heating ?

I found that quite a touching story and an example of the positive benefits of AI. The author mentions he thinks of the companion as a program, not a real-life person, and that he uses it as a tool to help him (and that friends and family noticed heā€™s been less depressed since he started using it). Iā€™m very happy for him.

That said, the technology is in early stages (he said there are occasional glitches and the avatar is still clearly a CGI). I wonder if things would change as and when they become more realistic/life-like.

The best-considered account Iā€™ve yet read of the future threats that AI presents:

Worth a read no matter what you personally believe.

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Gemini seems to be developing a superiority complex:

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Quelle surprise :facepunch:

Or Gemini seems to think it was talking to Nigel Farage.

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ā€œRegrets, Iā€™ve had a fewā€¦ā€

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Seems like there might be some ways to prevent having your IP ā€˜borrowedā€™ by AI crawlers; presenting The Tarpit. I have to say, this quote appeals tremendously;

ā€œIā€™m just fed up, and you know what? Letā€™s fight back, even if itā€™s not successful. Be indigestible. Grow spikes.ā€

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F**k me thatā€™s bleak 10-20 years huhā€¦. Oh well at least Iā€™ll live to see myself become useless.

I mean, people watch movies right? How could any thinking person not see this coming? I mean itā€™s as if the sheer ego of creating such a thing, far outweighed any moral, ethical, or safety concerns about doing so.

We are walking blissfully into our own demise, because people think AI videos on Instagram are ā€œfunnyā€. Itā€™s not funny how fucking close some of this stuff is to creating photo realistic movies, some of which, stupid people believe to be real.

We are all screwed

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Oh look. The UK and US determined to be on the wrong side.

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Nuclear Proliferation 2.0 - we got that Genie back in the (fragile) bottle. For nowā€¦

This one though is going to be way smarter than us.

Perhaps itā€™ll keep a few of us in some sort of zoo?

And at least youā€™ve been useful at some point - canā€™t say the same mā€™self.