did anyone else think the exit-door office scene was the stanley parable or was that just me.
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Saturday night
Print: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/olliemnjones/saturday-night/
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"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now."
So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".
'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023
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im so glad my last post got so much hype. thank you all :}
here is another to maul between your teeth.
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Speaking in the third person... AM -- which is I -- AM is satisfied with the sacrifice. He -- that is to say, I -- will spare the village his -- that is to say, my -- wrath for today. I have -- as I said before -- spoken.
(black and white version under the cut)
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I have decided I will keep blaming Jonah Magnus for the Everything.
I don't think whatever remnants of Jon there still are is Error/Archivist, but it's a fun concept all the same.
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I’m back with more Pressure >:)
more specifically, Painter
I finally found him in game on a lockerless run and read his file a few days ago with my friends and
Bro.
i
wanna
grab him
so bad
and get him out of there.
PLEASE
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Electric dreams was so funny. Imagine getting what might be the worlds first sentient computer and you immediately just start fighting with it
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"I just can't figure out why my colours never come out right" like, this is just speculation on my part, but it might possibly have something to do with the fact that you keep the contrast ratio on your monitor cranked so high that your desktop looks like an establishing shot from a sci-fi movie about a planet with three suns.
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