#Strong AI

[dreamy-conceit]

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

— Irving John Good, 'Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine' (Advances in Computers, 1965)

[mckitterick]

and the part that irks me most is that corporate grifters use the long-time science-fiction term "artificial intelligence" to describe what is very much not that, lending LLMs artificial credibility because our minds associate "AI" with our favorite lovable robots or killer computers

if we ever actually see true AI, it'll be a machine that thinks and reasons for itself, not just a database of every possible word and phrase - true and false - collected from the internet

sure, Strong AI will be trained on as much human knowledge as its creators can feed it, but its "mind" will be more than just the house of cards assembled from collected phrases masquerading as thought that today's techbro grifters deceptively label as "artificial intelligence"

LLMs / "generative AI" / [insert other buzzwords here] stand on zero foundation of mind. they're just autocorrect databases asked to do things far beyond their core competency

the only tech we have today that does anything useful as AI might one day are pattern-recognition algorithms, such as those that can help identify disease, or others that sift through terabytes of data in seconds to find specific information - because even those have no foundation of mind, they're vulnerable to design flaws accidentally or intentionally programmed into them via the biases of their designers

so for now at least, Strong AI - that is, general intelligence suited to varying situations, like ours - still only exists in SF

people are really fucking clueless about generative ai huh? you should absolutely not be using it for any sort of fact checking no matter how convenient. it does not operate in a way that guarantees factual information. its goal is not to deliver you the truth but deliver something coherent based on a given data set which may or may not include factual information. both the idolization of ai and fearmongering of it seem lost on what it is actually capable of doing

[sokolygrandaananeva]

Transhumanism: The Future of Human Enhancement

Transhumanism envisions a future where humanity can transcend its current physical and mental limitations through the use of advanced technologies.

Transhumanism and the Connection Between Human Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence Transhumanism envisions a future where humanity can transcend its current physical and mental limitations through the use of advanced technologies. The central belief of transhumanism is that humanity not only can but should pursue certain objectives to shape its future. However, there are differing…

[gingerswagfreckles]

After 146 days, the Writer's Strike has ended with a resounding success. Throughout constant attempts by the studios to threaten, gaslight, and otherwise divide the WGA, union members stood strong and kept fast in their demands. The result is a historic win guaranteeing not only pay increases and residual guarantees, but some of the first serious restrictions on the use of AI in a major industry.

This win is going to have a ripple effect not only throughout Hollywood but in all industries threatened by AI and wage reduction. Studio executives tried to insist that job replacement through AI is inevitable and wage increases for staff members is not financially viable. By refusing to give in for almost five long months, the writer's showed all of the US and frankly the world that that isn't true.

Organizing works. Unions work. Collective bargaining how we bring about a better future for ourselves and the next generation, and the WGA proved that today. Congratulations, Writer's Guild of America. #WGAstrong!!!

[babamessiahoftheholycat]

yeah that's why while i find the differenciation between weak and hard AI really cool, i don't think it really matters.

because how do you know which of them is which ? it can tell you that it's sentient, but is it ?

you think your friends think the way you do, but how can you be sure ?

and in the end, what is sentience ? are you sentient ? if yes, how do you know you're not the only one ?

and in the end, does it matter ? my answer to this is no.

and it's precisely because you can never know, for you still see people as people, right ? not because they are, but because you brain thinks they are. so in the end, what matters isn't any objective reality, but the subjective one you're living in right now.

for better or worse, people (artificial or not) matter as much as you let them. so why live all alone ?

anyways, you can also apply that logic on the concept of "real" life.

[bebs-art-gallery]

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[dovesndecay]

Hey fellow workers and union men🐈‍⬛, SAG-AFTRA has released a series of short, plain-language explanations regarding the fight for AI protections in video games, and what they're fighting for.

Please share this widely for game performers, current and future, and make sure to support the union!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders

The studios fought like hell for the right to fire their writers and replace them with chatbots, but that doesn’t mean that the chatbots could do the writers’ jobs.

Think of the bosses who fired their human switchboard operators and replaced them with automated systems that didn’t solve callers’ problems, but rather, merely satisficed them: rather than satisfying callers, they merely suffice.

Studio bosses didn’t think that AI scriptwriters would produce the next Citizen Kane. Instead, they were betting that once an AI could produce a screenplay that wasn’t completely unwatchable, the financial markets would put pressure on every studio to switch to a slurry of satisficing crap, and that we, the obedient “consumers,” would shrug and accept it.

Despite their mustache-twirling and patrician chiding, the real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders.

-How the Writers Guild sunk AI's ship: No one's gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can't fire their workers

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[k3n999]

ohh my godd one day. ONE DAY I'm gonna find the time to yap abt Ais, write 100 paragraphs abt why I love this red horn-y man so much if I could. I'm not very good at putting my thoughts into words but I really need to do it. It's hurt to keep everything in your head for too long. So I hve to get it all out🧑‍🦽hhhhhhggggghhhhhhhh

[yandere-daydreams]

please PLEASE I’m begging you to make a Yandere Childe bot on c.ai I love the way you write and I just want to have a little deranged version of him in my pocket!! If I can be greedy I’d love another Yandere Childe sex doll au too! I’m on my KNEES🙏

if i ever make a character ai of literally anything at any point i need someone to come to my house and break every bone in my body. if you want smut so bad then write it yourself. there's no soul in those machines and they do NOT know what it is to want to peg a fictional man.

[sinlizards]

[ID: Digital illustration of Phoenix Wright, Akane Kurashiki, and Kaname Date from the shoulders up on a white background. End ID]

minmaxing my breaks inbetween commission work by drawing all 3 of my favorite freaks in one powerful blast

[yall-it-me]

no dan and phil don’t be pro generative ai… capita£ester i can support the phan dragon breeding kink i cannot support this

[gojoest]

just so you know satoru can effortlessly hold you up on his cock while standing and make you bounce on it with a pace of his liking without even having to fuck himself into you. just lifting you up then pulling you down and slamming you on his cock over and over again

[gingerswagfreckles]

Holy Fucking Shit

[bebs-art-gallery]

by majara__

[deathbyattrition]

You know, when this whole AI art, deepfakes and other shit began, I was scared that the responsibility of convincing people that it can and will be used unethically would fall on the shoulders of small artists who would not be taken seriously. I expected change in the art world to be a slow, creeping transition into inevitable demise.

What I did not expect was hollywood studio execs doing that job for us by being so cartoonishly evil, impatient and releasing statements like "We're gonna starve you until you agree to work with us lol" and "We're gonna take your likeness and use it forever. You will be paid with jack and shit."

I also did not expect AI bros doing the same job for us by harassing a voice actor off of twitter.