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The images are neat, but I would rather throw my laptop in the ocean than read chat transcripts between a human and an AI.

(Science fiction novels excluded, of course.)

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Somebody a while back on HN compared sharing AI chat transcripts as the equivalent of telling everyone all about that “amazing dream you had last night”.

I guess they were (unknowingly?) quoting Tom Scott, unless he himself was also doing the same: https://youtu.be/jPhJbKBuNnA?t=384

I think he was quoting some unknown person, since the made the same comparison shortly before on an episode of Safety Third.

The most famous literary expression of this idea comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. While discussing the tedious nature of listening to others recount their dreams, there is a general literary consensus often attributed to him (and other authors like Mark Twain or Henry James) that:

"Nothing is more boring than other people’s dreams."

-- by Gemini

> "Nothing is more boring than other people’s dreams."

I disagree. Often their dreams are more interesting than their boring stories about some their "real life" situations, or - God forbid - their gossip.

I would even claim that at least for the phase in my life when I kept a diary of my dreams, and thus got much more observant of my dreams, I did have (somewhat) interesting dreams (even for other people), for example

- dreaming two dreams in parallel (it's basically like having two desktop applications open at the same time)

- having a dream where I additionally have a dream inside it (and I am aware of the latter); it does in my opinion not really feel like the Inception movie, but rather like the feeling of playing a video game where you are basically both a person who plays a video game in which you control a video game character (and are aware of this), and the character inside the video game.

Nothing more fun than telling your dreams to ChatGPT. Especially if it already has learned the details of the dream-world you are often living in.

Except sometimes you get absolutely banger dreams.

I still don't want to know.

I just skipped to the images. Don't even want to skim generated nonsense.

> images are neat

Are they though? I don't know what I expected, but to me they looked like nothing. Maybe they'd be more impressive if I'd read the transcripts but whatever.

Consider it generative / digital art, emergent from some kind of algorithm. That's interesting enough to explore and write about in an article.

+1, I don’t even fully read my own conversations with AI

Oh that reminds me. Could someone make an AI interface where each agent uses a different Culture ship name, and looks like the dialog from Excession?

If we are going to have a dystopia, lets make it fun, at least...

That feels somehow sacrilegious.

Forget AGI benchmarks, I'm watching for when AI start giving themselves culture names.

Well now you've done it.

They haven’t earned ship names yet.

If we are going by Culture standards, then surely the AIs should give themselves appropriate names?

The minds name themselves. Ask your agent.

I feel the same way, but apparently millions of people are using character.ai?

-HAL, Throw my portable computing device through the porthole.

-Im afraid I cant do that Dave!

-HAL, do you need some time on dr. Chandras couch again?

-Dave, relax, have you forgotten that I dont have arms?

Don’t throw it away, just send it to me I might have a few good use for it ;)

Claude manages to be even more insufferable than the stereotype of a pretentious artist, with none of the talent.

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