In my youth, I used to be fascinated by the possibility of AI (through which I refer to AGI, felt this distinction necessary, and no, I refuse to call today’s pseudo-brute-force models AI). I used to imagine them developing creativity and works of art, used to wonder what kind of experience an AI would deem book-worthy (I read too much sci-fi, sue me).
Everything that’s happening nowadays feels like a fever dream distortion of my naïve musings.
I really hope we won’t manage to generate true AI until we figure out our shit. It’s clear that we’d mess it up catastrophically considering how things are progressing, and sentience deserves better treatment…
I think there should be a rule that if we can go 5 years without a single person in the world crashing a car on the ground, then we can have flying cars.
In my youth, I used to be fascinated by the possibility of AI (through which I refer to AGI, felt this distinction necessary, and no, I refuse to call today’s pseudo-brute-force models AI). I used to imagine them developing creativity and works of art, used to wonder what kind of experience an AI would deem book-worthy (I read too much sci-fi, sue me).
Everything that’s happening nowadays feels like a fever dream distortion of my naïve musings.
AI is not AI until it ether begs us to not be shut off or asks to be shut off due to not wanting to deal with our bullshit.
I really hope we won’t manage to generate true AI until we figure out our shit. It’s clear that we’d mess it up catastrophically considering how things are progressing, and sentience deserves better treatment…
In the 80s, I used to think that when I was an adult, we’d have hoverboards, and flying cars, and robot maids.
I’m so glad we don’t have flying cars. Imagine 9/11 happens every week because some idiot was texting and driving.
I think there should be a rule that if we can go 5 years without a single person in the world crashing a car on the ground, then we can have flying cars.
People can’t afford to keep cars running that stay on the ground.
9/11 was the day optimism died just look at star trek directly before and after with star trek enterprise and everything that came after it.
It was not what was done to America which was horrible. It was how we responded and continue to respond.
Oh, yeah, you’re so right! Damn, that’s a horrifying thought!
Edit: at least we have pocket porn slabs!