A I Quietly Killing Itself

[Hippasus]

For bass fishing in the USA, Lake Okeechobee (Florida) is known as “The Bass Capital of The World.” Several souces agree ...

Ha ha ha. I find your laughter amusing. From which droids does your humor derive from? Perhaps R2D2. A.I. disagrees.

 

[JMCx4]

Ha ha ha. I find your laughter amusing. From which droids does your humor derive from? Perhaps R2D2. A.I. disagrees.

R2D2 says to A.I. (translated): "Kiss my sheet aluminum arse!"

 

[Hippasus]

R2D2 says to A.I. (translated): "Kiss my sheet aluminum arse!"

Seriously, I'm trying to think this through, but I see videos from Youtube.com that are given in that robot voice, and funneling particular videos based on some presumed profile. I think this is even true if there is a legitimate essay behind the scenes. It was just a f-in movie review from a film I saw in the past (~15 years ago), but consider me triggered. I'm honestly getting P.O.'d about it at the moment and think I need to boycott said website. If I wanna go out, read a book, hang out with my cat, talk on the phone, those are good things, but I think websites like I mentioned are feeding into paranoia.

 

[JMCx4]

Seriously, I'm trying to think this through, but I see videos from Youtube.com that are given in that robot voice, and funneling particular videos based on some presumed profile. I think this is even true if there is a legitimate essay behind the scenes. It was just a f-in movie review from a film I saw in the past (~15 years ago), but consider me triggered. I'm honestly getting P.O.'d about it at the moment and think I need to boycott said website. If I wanna go out, read a book, hang out with my cat, talk on the phone, those are good things, but I think websites like I mentioned are feeding into paranoia.

Three pieces of advice:
1. Limit your obsessive "think this through" tendencies to life-threatening situations.
2. Block all YouTube channels that don't offer practical DIY tips for easy regrouting of your bathtub or for building a backyard shed out of empty Amazon shipping boxes.
3. Dump the cat, and get some human companions.

Your life will be SO much richer.

 

[Hippasus]

Three pieces of advice:
1. Limit your obsessive "think this through" tendencies to life-threatening situations.
2. Block all YouTube channels that don't offer practical DIY tips for easy regrouting of your bathtub or for building a backyard shed out of empty Amazon shipping boxes.
3. Dump the cat, and get some human companions.

Your life will be SO much richer.

Thanks for the advice. It's been a rough few days, so I may have been over-reacting. But no way am I dumping my cat. lol

 

[Crow]

I have no idea what’s going on in this thread.

Edit: ok you have to watch the video for it to make sense.

Edit II: Radiohead is f***ing terrible, I can’t watch this video

 

[DaaaaB's]

Thanks for the advice. It's been a rough few days, so I may have been over-reacting. But no way am I dumping my cat. lol

As someone who's lived with many people and cats, I'd say stick with the cat.

 

[JMCx4]

It's looking like the U.S. hospitality industry is embracing the miracles of AI. I recently made consecutive overnight stops at a Hilton & a Marriott property, and submitted traveler reviews for both on Tripadvisor. Almost immediately, each review was tagged with a clearly AI-generated reply from the property's "General Manager" that was thick with regurgitation of my review comments including ridiculous responses to specific hotel conditions that I had pointed out for attention. I hope the REAL General Managers from those businesses have since found gainful employment. Staff jobs in Housekeeping Services are one position that U.S. hotels are in desperate need of backfilling, and I don't think AI is up to that challenge quite yet.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

My friends use ChatGPT for their work emails all the time. They swear by it because they have so many emails to write.

IDK, it could be that I was always a proficient writer throughout school and still to this day but...

1) Is it REALLY that hard to write a work email out or reply to a work email?
2) Does it really save you that much time?

For number 2, yes.

 

[Hippasus]

Why truly conscious A.I. is impossible:

Consciousness is part of the human brain, as far as we know. But this involves reflection not only on oneself as thinker and language-user, but also involves considering thought in a more general sense, abstract objects, as well as a language-using community in general, at least as far as humans are concerned, and as far as we know.

Any individual thinker, or team of programmers, cannot hope to encapsulate a sentient individual's thought(s). The nature of language is such that it is a public phenomenon that must preclude a private language.

Suppose towards contradiction, that some team of programmers is able to identify a private language. Any criterion of correctness, as would be needed for a language to be the case is lacking. Assuming language is given to the individual thinker, it must be a condition for the possibility of expression in a given language-using community. In order to see one's vision, so to speak, one must see outside oneself.

As another poster on the main boards recently put the point, true A.I. does not exist because if we as humanity fail to understand what consciousness really is, how could we hope that the programmers of A.I. could create a truly conscious version of A.I.?