kokorodoko wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2023 11:03 amUsually some version of enslavement under a machine-god, but rendered as something exciting.

Like the latest smart phones and home automation systems. We have arrived at the realization of a Type I civilization on the Kardashev Scale. In the near future we go boom.

Pascal's wager is derp. Disappointing from the man who gave us classics like the Triangle.

This Basilisk is kind of funny if it's causing AI nerds to freak out, but maybe not so funny if it's causing Elon Musk to do more mad things. The fucking basilisk has no reason to punish anyone retrospectively like a robot Anton Chigurh. Being scared of the basilisk is sufficient. And I'm not.

Fear of eternal torment reeks of vanity to me. We're all getting flushed down the Big Toilet of Time; nobody's important enough for any eternal torture virtual reality bullshit. Maybe some people secretly wish there was that much at stake in their ultimately insignificant lives. I'm highly sceptical of any claims about technological singularities anyway, and all the assumptions they make about AI. They usually assume the AI will have both unstoppable godlike powers and reducto ad absurdum motivations.

And now by telling people not to be afraid of the basilisk I have marked myself as an enemy of the basilisk. Well, fuck you basilisk and fuck you too, God.

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2023 6:45 pm And now by telling people not to be afraid of the basilisk I have marked myself as an enemy of the basilisk. Well, fuck you basilisk and fuck you too, God.

It's a conundrum! We are all doomed.

I am running out university’s AI Institute’s podcast. The most recent one with Toby is right on topic. Here’s the blurby blurb:

In the second episode of Surfing the Datawave, I talked with Toby Walsh about his new book - Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World. Toby is a colleague and friend, so this was good fun. We talked about everything from Toby's hopes for AI, his optimism with regard to AI's environmental overheads, the challenges of labour extractivism, the fate of the metaverse, AI's relationships with consciousness, free will, and morality, and more.



https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s ... 0635376837

It ain't quite there yet...

It's also possible that's exactly what it is. But it's getting hard to tell. Apparently a comedy AI called "Dudesy" is responsible but who knows how much human intervention there was. There's only one AI George Carlin special that's been released, not ten thousand.

But I guess that's not the point; every practical application of AI is likely to have a human component. Anyway based on the part I checked out it's coherent, the delivery is pretty good, and it's not funny at all.

AlphaFold 3 revealed.

So, the future is here. Forced AI imposed on EVERY FRICKING EMAIL I get in my work Outlook.

What does this mean, exactly? It means a gigantic "button" (actually a banner like a website ad) that eats up a ridiculous amount of space at the top of my reading pane which says "let CoPilot summarize the email for you". No way to disable that badboy...ohno...wouldn't want you missing out on that burst of increased productivity.

So I ask you, how smart is the AI solution deployed by the worlds premier software company exactly? So smart that it can't figure out that no one would ever want it to summarize an email that is one sentence long, Please, just nuke me now and lets get this over with.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Wed May 08, 2024 10:43 am AlphaFold 3 revealed.

See you post things like this, which admittedly I don't watch for more than a few minutes because 1) the dude annoys me, 2) I don't understand some things, and 3) I don't care.

Then I listen to a podcast that says that these large language models get the answers to questions like "What time is it in London?" incorrect. What's a motherfucker supposed to think about all this?