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

[Free]

It gave me The Journalist (patron saint: Sam Kriss). Which, OK...

 

[Casey Pelous]

Claude Code came out last year.

" You must be at least as competent as the AI that wrote this ad."

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

The Conscientious Objector
patron saint: Holly Herndon

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Godot Engine bans AI-generated code contributions

AI contributions have the added pain of being demoralizing. Reviewing PRs is already tedious work, but it is rewarding because reviewers generally feel that their efforts are contributing to educating a new contributor (who may become a future maintainer/reviewer). If your feedback on PRs is just being absorbed by a machine and not going towards mentoring a potential future maintainer, it becomes much harder to justify spending your free time on PR review.

 

[Free]

Weird Al will not jokingly be called Weird A.I. any time in the near future.

Weird Al Turns Down Huge Sum to Appear in Ad for AI

Comedic musician "Weird Al" Yankovic says he turned down a boatload of money to star in a commercial for AI.

futurism.com

The latest public version of ChatGPT can be made to generate sexualised images or depict scenes of graphic violence with a simple prompt, researchers have told the BBC.

British AI security startup Mindgard figured out how to make ChatGPT create graphic pictures by slightly altering a widely-shared instruction, or prompt, which was originally designed to produce humorous results.

After being contacted by the BBC, ChatGPT's maker OpenAI said it had taken action to stop the chatbot responding with those types of images.

Until next time...

 

[Free]

It's like being a carpenter, but all you can use for a hammer are nails.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

 

[Free]

This is supposed to be an ad FOR AI. Anthropic is run by lunatics.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Interesting article by Anil Seth

Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts

Fifty years ago, in his essay What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, [Thomas Nagel] argued that that for a conscious organism, “there is something that it is like to be that organism”. It feels like something to be me, it feels like something to be you and it probably feels like something to be a dog or an elephant. But it doesn’t feel like anything to be a chair, or a table, or a person under profound general anaesthesia. Consciousness is any kind of experience whatsoever: the pain of a toothache, a pang of jealousy, the pleasure of eating ice-cream on a hot day.

While consciousness is all about feeling and being, intelligence is all about doing – about performing functions of one kind or another. A common mistake people make when it comes to AI is to confuse the two – to take signs of intelligence as evidence for consciousness. But just because consciousness and intelligence go together in humans, this doesn’t mean they go together in general. Assuming that they do is a reflection of our own psychology, not an insight into the nature of reality.