Rather odd!
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Yebut whatabout house prices?
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Iām quite fascinated by this - Iāve several very solid friendships with people Iāve never met in person, and may well never do so. How different that is from an online friendship with an AI, Iām not really sure. I suspect for me, knowing itās an AI means it will never feel real - but then again Iām not entire sure Iād be able to tell if it was someone Iād been conversing with thinking they were real.
Obviously thereās a yawning gulf between that an āIām in a committed relationship with a computer programā, that feels like a very significant step further.
I wonder if theyāre running anywhere near the mechanical limits rather than the computational ones ? e.g. Do they have to worry about the cubeās works breaking because theyāre being accelerated and decelerated so fast ? Or does the very high rotation speed risk melting the plasticās 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 heās been less depressed since he started using it). Iām 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 Iāve 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 
Or Gemini seems to think it was talking to Nigel Farage.
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āRegrets, Iāve had a fewā¦ā
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Seems like there might be some ways to prevent having your IP āborrowedā by AI crawlers; presenting The Tarpit. I have to say, this quote appeals tremendously;
āIām just fed up, and you know what? Letās fight back, even if itās not successful. Be indigestible. Grow spikes.ā
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F**k me thatās bleak 10-20 years huhā¦. Oh well at least Iāll live to see myself become useless.
I mean, people watch movies right? How could any thinking person not see this coming? I mean itās 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 āfunnyā. Itās 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 itāll keep a few of us in some sort of zoo?
And at least youāve been useful at some point - canāt say the same māself.
Not all bad, thenā¦