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I’m gonna need that translated for me.

If only there were some kind of communication channel, maybe like a “forum”, where people could communicate openly…but where could such a thing even be found??

We’d all be better off if nobody did.

Well, first we let it get a hamster, and we see how that goes. Then we can talk about letting the Agentic AI get a puppy.

I let it watch my kids. Was that a mistake?

/s

Probably a pretty safe assumption that 4Chan script kiddies are running federal IT at this point. Why not run a search for connections in light of this news?

Could it easily do that for several minutes at full chap? Under the load of a full washing machine?

This is correct.

[Abstract]

Hundreds of years ago, sailors were terrified by the Kraken, a dreadful sea monster capable of sinking ships and with a taste for human flesh. Today we know the legends of this monster were based on sightings of giant squids. This animal belongs to the genus Architeuthis and was the subject of many scientific studies. Despite its enormous size (up to 18m), the giant squid is astoundingly elusive and much of its biology remains unknown. Thus shrouded in mystery, Architeuthis is almost a mythological creature and has a place both in science and in myth: the very last of the legends to persist to this day.

Maybe I'm a weird one, but I'm still quite happy on my iPhone 12.

> What disappears as a result is a societal baseline of tolerance—a development that could contribute to the long-term erosion of democratic structures. To prevent societies from increasingly fragmenting, Thurner emphasizes the importance of learning early how to engage with different opinions and actively cultivating tolerance.

That could be a problem, considering how the push back to "actively cultivating tolerance" has unfolded so far.

Assuming it deals somehow with the folks who use it for revenge porn, deep fakes of non-consenting parties, and depictions of minors…has it said anything about doing that? Has anyone? Does anyone know the legal implications of generating mass quantities of sexual exploitation, or is this just another thing with AI that society will have to simply tolerate in the name of “progress”?

Isn’t the whole point of AI to replace labor? If they really want to put their money where their mouth is, they’d be casting off staff at a prodigious rate.

Probably worth noting also that declining number of providers does not equal a declining number of customers. I know every company I engaged with ~15-years ago has been acquired at least once.

Engaging with sexual exploitation includes its consumption, and it absolutely includes its creation. I don't have any problems with content, generated or otherwise, that includes informed consent from all models involved. But that's not what's being described in this article. They are specifically talking about photorealistic imagery generated using the likeness of individuals who did not knowingly consent to such depictions.

I suspect this is the "secret sauce" to making a coherent model.

Douglas Hofstadter wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach nearly 50-years ago, and it won a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and got featured in the popular press. It’s been on lots of college reading lists, from 2007 online coursework for high school students was available from MIT. The FBI concluded that the 2001 anthrax scare was in-part inspired by elements of the book, which was found in the attacker’s trash. Anyone who’s wanted to engage with the theories and philosophy surrounding artificial intelligence has had plenty of materials that get fairly in-depth asking and exploring these same questions. It seems like a lot of people seem to think this is all bleeding edge novelty (at least, the underlying philosophical and academic ideas getting discussed in popular media), but rather all of the industry is predicated on ideas that are very old philosophy + decades-old established technology + relatively recent neuroscience + modern financial engineering. That said, I don’t want to suggest a layperson is likely to have engaged with any of it, so I understand why this will be the first time a lot of people will have ever considered some of these questions. I imagine what I’m feeling is fairly common to anyone who’s got a very niche interest that blows up and becomes the topic of interest for the entire world. I think there’s probably some very interesting, as-yet undocumented phenomena occurring that’s been the product of the unbelievably vast amount of resources sunk into what’s otherwise a fairly niche kind of utility (in LLMs specifically, and machine learning more broadly). I’m optimistic that there will be some very transformational technologies to come from it, although whether it will produce anything like “AGI”, or ever justify these levels of investment? Both seem rather unlikely.

Well, you do tend to repeat yourself, maybe ChatGPT really is your peer with language?

How would you know? Bots speak just as well as you do.

That sounds awful.

Douglas Hofstadter wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach in the late 1970s. He used the short-hand “strange loops”, but dedicates a good bit of time considering this very thing. It’s like the Ship of Theseus, or the famous debate over Star Trek transporters—at what point do we stop being an inanimate clump of chemical compounds, and become “alive”. Further, at what point do our sensory organs transition from the basics of “life”, and form “consciousness”.

I find anyone with confident answers to questions like these immediately suspect.

It’s frequently pretty funny, anyway.

Because you and I are the same species speaking a common language.

I’m gonna start referring to my own lies as “hallucinations”. I like the implication that I’m not lying, but rather speaking truthfully, sincerely, and confidently about things that never happened and/or don’t exist. Seems paradoxical, but this is what we’re effectively suggesting with “hallucinations”. LLMs necessarily lack things like imagination, or an ego that’s concerned with the appearance of being informed and factually correct, or awareness for how a lack of truth and honesty may affect users and society. In my (not-terribly-informed) opinion, I’d assert that precludes LLMs from even approximate levels of intelligence. They’re either quasi-intelligent entities who routinely lie to us, or they are complex machines that identify patterns and reconstruct plausible-sounding blocks of text without any awareness of abstract concepts like “truth”.

Edit: toned down the preachiness.

Is it really that complicated? I'm not sure the slippery slope towards a potential future with too-generic porn faces is really all that convincing against the very real and ongoing mass distribution of a nascent, poorly regulated (or even understood) medium that features torrential quantities of--let's not mince words--sexual exploitation.

Was there a Gateway that did better?

Because Trump couldn’t have that!

This feels like a good audience for Erowid.

"One side note, and it really irks me, it seems to be a legislative reaction to some morons increasingly wanting to melt Cents and Nickels. It is now illegal to melt them. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always thought that the mindset of melting coins to make a profit never made an ounce of sense. It costs money to transfer a globally recognized coin with a known metallic composition, into a bar or round, and to have that object assayed. It’s the undertaking of an idiot. And yet, untold millions of silver coins have been reduced to bars and rounds. Friggin’ idiots."

Some person on Quora, for whatever that's worth.

I considered pasting the whole shebang here, but rather, just Google "defacing currency".