Nobody cares about "AI" (Chatbot: I disagree.)

[Innula Zenovka]

The main user base for AI companion bots in the English-speaking world is young men, while the main base in China comprises adult women. This article compares the two markets

Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends

and what it all means

www.chinatalk.media

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The AI Bubble Nobody Wins

How Billions in Fake Money Are Creating Real Job Losses

jacipriano.substack.com

 

[Free]

The AI Bubble Nobody Wins

How Billions in Fake Money Are Creating Real Job Losses

jacipriano.substack.com

No matter what happens from the "bubble," oh sure everyone at the bottom will lose. But a handful of someones will definitely come out on top. They've built it so it only works that way.

 

[Free]

To misquote Carl Sagan, "To build an Artificial Intelligence - from scratch or even using store bought ingredients - you must first create the Universe."

What Would it Take to Convince a Neuroscientist That an AI is Conscious?

Before we can test for AI consciousness, we need to understand how consciousness actually emerges, experts say.

gizmodo.com

Large language models like ChatGPT are designed to be eerily human-like. The more you engage with these AIs, the easier it is to convince yourself that they’re conscious, just like you.

But are you really conscious? I’m sure it feels like you are, but how do you actually know? What does it mean to be conscious, anyway? Neuroscientists have been working to answer these questions for decades, and still haven’t developed a single, universally accepted definition—let alone a way to test for it.

Maybe we aren't really conscious at all. Maybe we're all just a bunch of apples sitting in a bowl waiting to be peeled.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

If a system models the world and its own place in that world introspectively I would grant it consciousness, but it's not something you can test simply (because the whole point of things like the Turing test is to be fooled) or without adversarial probes.

 

[Casey Pelous]

To misquote Carl Sagan, "To build an Artificial Intelligence - from scratch or even using store bought ingredients - you must first create the Universe."

Maybe we aren't really conscious at all. Maybe we're all just a bunch of apples sitting in a bowl waiting to be peeled.

Or, like ..... *giant bong hit* ..........*exhales* ... like maybe the apples are conscious ..... whoa...

 

[Free]

Or, like ..... *giant bong hit* ..........*exhales* ... like maybe the apples are conscious ..... whoa...

 

[Free]

I think we're safe - for now - from having AI take over. Especially the robot war part of it all.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I think we're safe - for now - from having AI take over. Especially the robot war part of it all.

"In my defense, I was really, really drunk."

- Russian Robot​

 

[Noodles]

I think we're safe - for now - from having AI take over. Especially the robot war part of it all.

WTF is going in at the end.

Like, how do curtains work?????

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

WTF is going in at the end.

Like, how do curtains work?????

He asked ChatGPT for instructions first.

 

[Casey Pelous]

WTF is going in at the end.

Like, how do curtains work?????

They were covering up the part where the robot started ugly crying with robot snot and robot mascara and saying it "always screws everything up" then barfs up a couple of servos and part of its power supply.

 

[Free]

Robot snot. Robot mascara. lol

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Sam Altman's fantasies of theurgy

“Mad?” Baldanders rumbled.

www.nefariousrussians.com

I was reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao, and a couple of things stood out. First was that Sam Altman is a little weasel. Actually, I don’t want to denigrate weasels — beautiful and crafty creatures — by comparing them with Altman, who on a moral level resembles a bubonic plague pustule more than anything else, if we must compare him to some kind of biological entity.

One funny part of the book is when Hao writes about how OpenAI’s original mission statement was that the company was being run for the benefit of humanity — to protect the world from malicious developers of AI. That, of course, didn’t last very long. As soon as big money was on the horizon, Sam Altman turned OpenAI into a project of self-enrichment and integrated it with America’s corporate-military-industrial complex. OpenAI’s tech is not just killing people at home through psychosis. Its technology is also helping Israel kill people in Gaza — making genocide more efficient. If you want just one example…

Hao also does a nice job talking about the core political problem with AI: that it centralizes power. She also gets into the details of just how destructive it is to our world, looking at its demand for water, energy, and precious metals. So yeah, the Empire of AI is a very good book. It gets into the politics of this technology that I’ve rarely seen in journalistic work and was pleasantly surprised by it.

 

[Free]

I was reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao, and a couple of things stood out. First was that Sam Altman is a little weasel. Actually, I don’t want to denigrate weasels — beautiful and crafty creatures — by comparing them with Altman, who on a moral level resembles a bubonic plague pustule more than anything else, if we must compare him to some kind of biological entity.

I enjoyed that part of the first paragraph, but I want to point out the second part (I like a writer who frontloads their thesis.)

I was reminded of how much the rollout of AI mirrored the rollout of the internet itself: huge claims about openness and utopian progress and personal empowerment…followed by a gluttonous money grab and the use of this technology for the massive centralization of economic power, war, and political and social control. This pattern is older than the internet and has followed the introduction of every new mass communication technology — from radio to cable news. Claims of utopian progress, followed by integration into America’s corporate-military state.

This is a sharp comparison. But a thoroughly unique aspect here, with OpenAI acting as a primary driver, it's unfolded due to the efforts of one man.

 

[Free]

(Also, starting with a quote from The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe is always going to catch my attention.)

 

[Free]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

The difference is the Internet can actually be used. It actually does stuff.

 

[Free]

The difference is the Internet can actually be used. It actually does stuff.

Also, AI is not mashing up "all the best art ever made by humans." It's mashing up every and all things made by humans, whether it's art or absolute garbage. And making no real judgements as to which is which.