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But nobody answers the question of why that would allow them to treat others like basically slaves.

The standard answer is: but the others could do the same thing. Well, if everybody tried to become a capitalist at all costs then we'd be in a pretty bad place.

It is not a good time to be a nerd.

The main reason is flexibility.

One day your boss stands next to you and asks: "can you move this border three pixels to the left", and the only correct answer is "but that requires a complete rewrite".

I bet an AI could turn it into a simulation or a game, easily. The question is if it would be fun to play.

How to know if a machine can gain consciousness:

1. Write a simulation environment like conway's game of life, perhaps a little more complicated. But leave out any human bias.

2. Run it until life starts to form.

3. Wait until the creatures start speaking about the concept of consciousness (of course in their own language, which you'll have to decipher first).

The way Amodei did it is with human bias, so it's not going to work.

Maybe AI could help us solve the hard problem of consciousness then.

I think what makes it great is that they trained it to write harnesses for the code it writes, so it can test stuff even if the supplied code is not complete.

I wish universities would take it upon themselves to curate the training sets for these models.

This one was cute also:

https://www.falstad.com/rendezvous/

(check the autopilot option)

"Hey ChatGPT, could you find me a suitable number for this flight?"

Falsehoods airlines believe about flight numbers.

Would not be very convenient to view on a radar screen.

The correct analogy is playing Russian roulette. The company says "you can pull the trigger but sometimes a bullet will come out" (see: "an AI can make mistakes"). However, is the company allowed to sell such a dangerous device, under these terms?

> Vx is the right language for the thing that must be correct and fast across ten kinds of silicon. It is not the right language for the thing you are still figuring out.

Sounds like a great language for an AI to use then :)

No mention of semiconductors?

Dyson, where are you when we need you?

Yes, in the analogy the user was just cleaning the gun, when suddenly it went off. Of course, the company is responsible now.

Ah, but that's because when the gun was purchased, it actually changed ownership.

This is not the case with SaaS services.

Yes, into versus onto. Luckily we have AI to write our command lines.

Why does my hardware vendor need to get into designing passes?

What is next, ASUS making electric bike motors?

Sadly, AI just made many of us lose all hope.

At least they lived a good life as free-range businesses.

If Apple doesn't up its AI game soon, their entire ecosystem will be rebuilt by AI.

Eternal AI September.

Yes, you can do that with AI now.

Yes

Right now it might be amazing, but what if AI becomes exponentially smarter?

"Ah, I see you are trying to build an amateur rocket, but what do you think of the space elevator I just made?"

> I keep thinking it would be interesting to do a series of interviews with software engineers on how they’re dealing with this change.

Beware of survivor bias though.

> Just because the job becomes obsolete doesn't mean the employee has to. Some employees have adapted to different jobs and roles many times in their careers.

But that employee will be on a treadmill and has to reinvent themselves in an ever-increasing pace because the AI is continuously hunting for their job, and its ambitions are growing exponentially.

Makes me wonder: how long until we can replace the entire internet by a local AI and nobody would notice?

Like a kind of super-Turing test.