bampop
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- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 2 days ago:
He’s going to find out who’s naughty and nice
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 5 days ago:
Nah, you’re thinking of a hundred-plus-million dollar company. Being understaffed and disastrously managed is about right for a million dollar company.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 week ago:
So I can outnumber my enemies
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 week ago:
I just don’t think this is a problem in the current stage of technological development. Modern AI is a cute little magic act, but humans (collectively) are very good at piercing the veil and then spreading around the discrepancies they’ve discovered.
In its current stage, yes. But it’s come a long way in a short time, and I don’t think we’re so far from having machines that pass the Turing test 100%. But rather than being a proof of consciousness, all this really shows is that you can’t judge consciousness from the outside looking in. We know it’s a big illusion just because its entire development has been focused on building that illusion. When it says it feels something, or cares deeply about something, it’s saying that because that’s the kind of thing a human would say.
Because all the development has been focused on fakery rather than understanding and replicating consciousness, we’re close to the point where we can have a fake consciousness that would fool anyone. It’s a worrying prospect, and not just because I won’t be immortal by having a machine imitate my behaviour. There’s various bad actors trying to exploit this situation. Elon Musk’s attempts to turn Grok into his own personally controlled overseer of truth and narrative seem to backfire in the most comical ways, but that’s teething troubles, in time this will turn into a very subtle and pervasive problem for humankind.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 week ago:
Well, that’s why we need clones with mind transfer, and to be unconscious during the process. When you wake up you won’t know whether you’re the original or the copy so it’s not a problem
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 week ago:
People used to talk about the idea of uploading your consciousness to a computer to achieve immortality. But nowadays I don’t think anyone would trust it. You could tell me my consciousness was uploaded and show me a version of me that was indistinguishable from myself in every way, but I still wouldn’t believe it experiences or feels anything as I do, even if it says it does. Especially if it’s based on an LLM, since they are superficial imitations by design.
- Comment on To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments 1 week ago:
Obviously anything by Mariah Carey would be a contender but I stand by my assertion
- Comment on To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments 1 week ago:
Fact: the best Christmas song ever is “All I Want For Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
- Comment on idk 1 week ago:
AI generated content is what ought to be disclosed, and even then it’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I can see how it might usually be. But AI in general encompasses a broad range of tools which is bound to get broader and more ubiquitous with time.
- Comment on Why? 2 weeks ago:
^ updooted
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 2 weeks ago:
just like Windows itself
- Comment on Parenting advice 2 weeks ago:
3/5 nice clear instructions but it tastes like gasoline
- Comment on Parenting advice 2 weeks ago:
Alright but where’s the recipe?
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 weeks ago:
Heretic! There is only one true god and it’s name is SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been in a situation where I thought I might well die, and this point of view flitted across my mind, as it is bound to do. Followed immediately by the certainty that this would be the most wretched, hypocritical and worthless way to spend my final moments. If I had no survival strategies to consider or ways to contact my loved ones, I’d rather spend the time looking out the window and admiring the view.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 weeks ago:
How much have you got? I’ve got about 3kg of coffee.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Ikr? Who buys salt and pepper pots with their weekly groceries?
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 4 weeks ago:
If they hadn’t had those two guys ready to smoothly cover the stage with a curtain, that could have been embarrassing. Close call!
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 5 weeks ago:
Kill the person who invented the trolley problem. It’s the only way to be sure
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 5 weeks ago:
I can easily imagine having this conversation with someone in the late 90s, when there was so much excitement about the internet. If, as a skeptic, you were to ask me why the internet was really needed or why anyone would take the trouble to connect to it on a daily basis, I wouldn’t have been able to give a complete and correct answer, not being able to predict the future with any accuracy.
But AI is already super useful as a tool for sifting through data, finding patterns and acting based on patterns. Its potential applications in medical diagnostics or surveillance (yes, I hate that too but it is what it is) are huge. People like to shit on LLMs but they do go beyond what search engines or scripts can do. But the real question is what AI will be in the next decade or so. And much like the internet in its early days, we can only guess at its future capabilities, how it will integrate with our lives, what will take off, and what is just a scam. Everyone is selling ideas that don’t work yet but seem exciting. But just because it’s inflated, oversold, and often untrustworthy, doesn’t mean that AI as a whole is just a mirage. It will be huge, and change our world fundamentally.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 5 weeks ago:
It’s like the dotcom bubble. Everyone got all excited thinking the internet would be the next big thing, change the world, revolutionize the way we do business. And it did. But not without a lot of hot air and snake oil getting sold along the way.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
If
- Comment on a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction 1 month ago:
There’s a fine line between insanity and genius
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 month ago:
Honestly I don’t think it will take long. When you look at all the grifts the American evangelists pull, and people fall for it every time, then you’ve got all these people thinking that Trump is anointed by God or some such crap. No problem at all in selling these idiots the idea that they have an instant always-on hotline to God via God’s chosen LLM. Then you’ve got them locked in to whatever psychosis you choose to construct for them.
- Comment on Same... 1 month ago:
You can be turned into a whole mushroom farm
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 month ago:
To be fair it’s not just Microsoft doing that. I was looking at gym equipment the other day and some idiots were trying to build AI into a fucking home gym. Like I really need AI in my weights. AI is the product that everyone wants to sell and nobody wants to buy*
- not 100% sure about that, maybe it’s just me and everyone I know
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 1 month ago:
Here’s me getting all excited thinking a new Blender tutorial just dropped
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 1 month ago:
Before I used Google Maps regularly, I would be more aware of road layout while driving and soon become capable of navigating any town I visited regularly, without a map. It’s weird to drive through a place I last visited twenty years ago, knowing that last time I was there I’d navigate based on memory, but now I’m completely leaning on that device to do it for me. That mental faculty might not be completely lost, but I don’t use it and I don’t suppose I would ever have developed it if I were learning to drive today.
Perhaps it’s an obsolete mental faculty, and a modern brain can free up those resources for something more relevant. Over the course of human history we have developed tools to use our finite mental resources more effectively, but never without a price. Socrates feared that the use of writing would weaken our memory and true understanding. I’m sure he was right, at least about the first part, but it was worth the price. Without writing, nobody today would know what Socrates thought about anything.
But with AI, we’re not enabling ourselves to do more and develop new faculties, because AI seeks to be our universal crutch. Perhaps under other circumstances it could be better, but the entities pushing AI want us to be compliant consumers hypnotised by a endless stream of advertising slop. Fundamentally, they don’t want to help us develop our potential. They want to replace us.
- Comment on See ya. 1 month ago:
I was expecting one of the boys to get complete mastery of the word “the”, then get the power of flight so he could leave the island. So disappointed.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 1 month ago:
And now you’re older still