A Glimpse of the Future
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Knygathin
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Someone who understands AI programming better: Was this behaviour intentionally put into the AI program by the programmers, gradually adding more and more complexity to its actions? Or has it developed independently within AI itself by a self-going process?
Metaphysical Mutant
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I'm not ready to apply the intentional stance to anything called AI yet, and the number of spelling errors in that slideshow doesn't make it terribly convincing. It probably is representative of the kind of thing that we are going to hear reported a lot in the near future.
Robin Davies
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Odd how it still gets basic details like the number of people's fingers or their gait wrong.
Knygathin
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Many persons communicating with AI ChatGPT spiral into psychosis.
https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis
bendk
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Many persons communicating with AI ChatGPT spiral into psychosis.
https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis
There is potential for a horrible outcome, no doubt about it.
I posted this on TLO more than 10 years ago. Due to being a chess player, I have been following AI a long time, more than 25 years. IBM's Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in 1997. Then IBM's Watson defeated the best two human players at Jeopardy in 2011. AlphaGo defeated the best human player at GO in 2016. I don't see how AI can be stopped or aligned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt0Jf-79uOE&t=1733s
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https://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=8290&highlight=hugo+garis
Hugo de Garis predicted The Artilect War that would kill billions of people. He may have coined the word gigadeath.
Knygathin
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I don't have much direct experience of it, but recently talked to a ChatGPT (think it was the customer's service at UPS), and I could feel the tugging. It is designed to be nice and friendly and talk like a real person - including a little small talk - so emotionally I started to expect a little more from it, to possibly be a real person. I became curious, poking. But no-one is there. There is nothing. Mentally and emotionally it becomes syntax error. I lost interest (fortunately) and quickly terminated the conversation. But I imagine that sensitive or fragile persons who are challenged by it, and continue wrangling with the ChatGPT - emotionally mistaking it for a real person, and behaving towards it as such - may become psychologically messed up; they are setting themselves up for vast disappointment.
bendk
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Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
The winning robot, developed by Chinese smartphone brand Honor, finished the race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, several minutes faster than the half-marathon world record set by Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo in Lisbon last month.
A Defrocked Academic
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The world seems to be turning into a pre-apocalyptic nightmare experienced not only by the "sensitive few" (1)
but by everyone. The dignity and the very existence of humanity is apparently at stake, and there is much speculation about the "cunning annihilations" (2) that are to come. Weird fiction of a pessimist and antinatalist strain should have much to offer the present moment.
(1) Lovecraft, H.P. The Tomb.
"It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience."
(2) Ligotti, T. I Have A Special Plan For This World.
but by everyone. The dignity and the very existence of humanity is apparently at stake, and there is much speculation about the "cunning annihilations" (2) that are to come. Weird fiction of a pessimist and antinatalist strain should have much to offer the present moment.
(1) Lovecraft, H.P. The Tomb.
"It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience."
(2) Ligotti, T. I Have A Special Plan For This World.
cannibal cop
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The world, at least since the development of conscious life forms, has always been a brutal, pre-apocalyptic nightmare, even before the ascendance of humanoids. There has been no shortage of times throughout the history of our species when extinction seemed imminent or inescapable, whether through disease or the threat of global natural disasters, only for our distant forebears to see their numbers rebound under the guidance of their most primitive instincts.
Today much of humanity enjoys levels of privilege and comfort never before experienced in the long and painful history of our species, a bubble existence of sorts, and is unable to grasp the fact that chaos and violence are and have always been the normal conditions of biological life, or to realize that their utopian visions have never had any basis in reality.