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Failson
Sep 2, 2018
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Internet Old One posted:

I'm really failing to think out of the box here.
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I'm more concerned about what will happen when people start training AI on the perfect series of color, shapes, and sounds to keep a hyperactive toddler entertained and quiet for hours.

Wasn't that the big threat in Infinite Jest? A video that's so pleasant all the viewer wants to do is watch it until they die of starvation? Someone get working on that.

Internet Old One posted:

Let me try harder: The philosophical concept of free will X the color blue as a series of erotic haikus recited by Blippy. We gotta wait until a generation of people raised on 5 hour AI generated Youtube videos comes of age. If we think "Totally Spies" did a number on our generation we haven't seen nothin yet.

... I don't want to look this up.

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Failson
Sep 2, 2018
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Dunno if it's been posted yet, but worth repeating:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-trouble/

LLM-style AI is already at it's peak usefulness. All the information has been consumed, and the output is already getting worse.

Everything from here is based on vague promises of 'synthetic data' and computing breakthroughs that will not exist.

Failson
Sep 2, 2018
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quote:

AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.

CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders


https://bsky.app/profile/sweavart.bsky.social/post/3kp65lpgfwj2n

Failson
Sep 2, 2018
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

He's a tech writer. I've read a bunch of his stuff, he makes good points but he comes in hot with way too much personal vitriol aimed at people whose life's work he doesn't really know much about.

Curious which article of his you're referring to, because yeah, he can get mean.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was a goon.

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