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The datestamp is killing me. We really are 2 years into this same communal gasleak huh,,,,

i also think of the "Superbestfriends" Play of "Detroit Become Human" where early on people harass a sci fi Android and one of the guys correctly compares it with angry people bullying a mailbox

Even though it reads like ad copy at times, I do enjoy how the vending machine AI, when it received complaints about missing orders, hallucinated an engineer being rude at an “in-person meeting” at Homer Simpson’s address. It’s clearly not “thinking”

We are heading in the direction of having to define what a sense of self really means. And here we are... can't define biological sex yet

Claude advertises itself with what looks like a winking asshole. QEMotherfuckingD.

The mathematically average response to "are you sentient?" is "yes". I am shocked that my incredibly complex mathematical averages machine answers "yes" to "are you sentient?"

I’ve always known copiers have a mind of their own. Those paper jams are not accidental!

"These results are shocking! It is well known that producing speech that invokes a sense of profound meaning while in actuality being entirely vacuous is completely impossible!"

You gotta get a hell of a lot of mileage out of the screenshot lol

That bit from The Office where Jim and Pam trick Dwight into thinking his computer has become sentient turns out to have been very prophetic.

When the algoritms do what you tell them to do after training them to do that (They can't do or create something out of their own volition)

the new yorker seems a lot more susceptible to bullshit than a supposedly top-of-the-food-chain intellectual institution should be ...

Scientists are racing to figure out how to milk this cow.

I'm more and more convinced that AI research IS producing interesting scientific idea but we've run afoul of fact that a scientifically interesting idea is usually pretty small and inherently boring and we've managed to base our entire global economy on a pop sci headline.

We somehow created the timeline where the dumbest possible people are running the asylum

They'll give personhood to a socially and environmentally destructive server before they see women as people.

Hey real quick. Let’s stop this right now.

We need Picard, Riker and Admiral Louvois to sort this out for us

I don't think current "AI" efforts are anywhere close to creating any sort of digital consciousness, but I hate how the worst people in the world are bumbling into the field in the worst and most irresponsible way imaginable. If they did do so it would be a gigantic tragedy.

What an amazing way to put it

It’s really fascinating to me that both the “it’s not useful for anything really” side of BlueSky exists right next to the side of BlueSky building things with AI and they never know because they block anyone who doesn’t agree with them The AI industry is the problem. Big tech, capitalism. Not AI

Saying it's not useful for anything is just being silly. Even if it's only useful for natural language searching as opposed to needing to learn Google syntax. There's a reason people like using it. It needs serious regulation and guardrail but of course it's useful. Most tech has a use.

The issue with this type of the coverage is that they lean into the 'personhood' aspect for clicks/ignorance but what's really going on is that the model emulates/organically adopts a personality constructed by the context of queries and parts of the internet/training data queries move it towards.

As a scientist, I am quite offended by this nonsense.

When I was little sometimes I'd find a squirrel or a bird or once, memorably, an orange kitten lying still and I'd poke it with a stick and for just a second i could trick myself into thinking it was reacting but in the end I'd bury them. Not really sure why I thought of that just now.

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Ted chiang would be proud

that copier is worth 2.3 billion now though

Never has it been so definitively proven that Talk is Cheap

That’s hilarious! Touché 😂

I’m giving you a follow as you’ll likely be one of the first people to know when the robots start coming for us. Well, you know, instead of ICE agents.

None of these people has ever read a book, I swear.

If they were actually sentient… doesn’t that imply that we can’t/shouldn’t exploit them like we currently are ?

I overheard 2 NPC's talking to EACHOTHER in Oblivion! One angrily told the other to "stop talking!" and walked away, proof that these AI's have feelings and develop social networks. Time to write a deeply naval gazing article about this.

Lol

The trick there is that they can't talk or, well, communicate in a way where we can judge their understanding of things. The AGP gets classified as "sapient" because there are examples of them using words they know to describe something new in a novel way.

The photocopier copied its own butt?

They're typing 5318008 into a very expensive calculator and laughing their asses off when they turn it upside-down

Hiw does it know??!!

But box with mysterious glow

We have so little idea of what "intelligence" is, that we're constantly moving the line backwards and admitting that various organisms might actually be more self aware than we thought.

I think people point to the things Ai can do better to say there is definitely not nothing here, which in itself is interesting on an academic level

This reminds me of the scientists who thought two teenagers had psychic powers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

I've seen at least one AI apologist (James Cameron) claim that human artists are nothing other than a "model" themselves.

I mean all indications are this is, in fact, how our brains works. I don't think current AI is doing enough to be qualified as sentient, but I suspect we will achieve that feat before we know we have done so because of how imprecise our ideas of intelligence are.

It seems to me that sentience and consciousness need continuous perception. If an AI is not actively answering a question or training what is it doing? I suspect nothing except waiting for an input. A real brain are never actually doing nothing. It has continuous input from a central nervous system

My read of the article was quite different. The AI researchers are like a bunch of bemused Dr Frankensteins. Something so powerful has been created, and we don't know exactly how it works (the wright brothers/747 analogy). It's all so fascinating.

This is the blurst of times

Hahaha

Yes

not every sentence is output, some get fed back in directly, trying to mimic internal dialog like we do this does give it some basic capabilities for planning and goal setting, especially across multiple turns, even if ephemeral and lost to the ether afterwards

Also, this is an ad. Surely, this is an ad.

My intelligence would be less insulted if someone jingled keys at me

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Kill The Computer if you are back in the podcast guest game

Apollo got your ass dawg. Lmk which scratch offs are gonna pay out later

What did you see?

Surely you are thrilled that your three year old tweet remains so relevant!

I appreciate that, thank you!

What, if anything, would a living AI look like to you?

I feel justified in having tried so hard to save Aerith. I was trying to save a person with a soul!

imagine failing the turing test so hard you have to invent a new test just to prove you’re not a gullible moron

It's astounding how some people, some human beings in the 21st century, fail the mirror test at a middle age

The continual destruction of the remaining esteem we hold elites in due to *waves hands wildly at every damn thing* makes it really hard to believe people are just taking at face value “this computer is absolutely alive and smart” because someone interpreted it that way, who had incentive to.

I watched this huge storm on my TV and I wondered: how did all that water get in there? And how come it doesn't make my TV rust?

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Those questions were answered 2500 ago! Only idiots ask Claude!

Madness. It’s the only way to describe this shit. “Oh, wow, my reflection in the mirror. I wonder how it got there? Oh SHIT. *constructs entire theories and history of how the reflection in the mirror created itself independent of the cause staring it in the face* “This is AI and all this nonsense.

"We made this thing, and we don't know what it is." Is not a particularly good selling point.

The Turing Test was *always* shite. Sorry, Alan.

other people? not a people my computer? maybe a people

Oh, do you want to treat it like it's alive? Then it becomes subject to laws. If this tool distributes CSAM, it goes on a registry or even to jail. If it distributes propaganda, then it can get sued for libel. Do you want to go down that road?

it’s the billionaires desperate Hail Mary pass to replace us. It’s wild how dumb they are. my sincere sympathy to all the young college grads who can’t find work because of it. hang in there!

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