The Boy Who Cried Robot: A World Without Work

[The Minsky Moment]

Just because you're trying to shut someone up doesn't mean that the person you want to shut up is saying something meaningful.  It would be a problem for Google if it wanted to keep AI sentience secret and this guy spilled the beans, true, but it would be just as much of a problem if this guy just didn't know what he was talking about, but had the credentials for lay persons to think that he does.

They are trying to shut him up because he violated company NDAs, pure and simple.  That's corporate sentience in action.

[Eddie Teach]

Well, I've never spoken with this program, but Alexa is as dumb as a box of hammers.

[DGuller]

None of this matters when it comes to brand management.

I've mentioned this before, but that one Radiolab episode, where the scientists developping the technology now behind deep fakes, reacted with considerable surprise to the concerns of the journalist about trust and democracy, confessing they had never thought about it at all, didn't fill me with amazing confidence about the ethical and philosophical bend of much of the scientific community.

No one should be living free of ethics or philosophy, but what do you propose?  First of all, deep fakes are just an obvious offshoot from the more general framework of generative models that are useful for a lot of things.  It wasn't an aha moment, it was an incremental work that someone was going to do anyway.  Even if American scientists somehow figure out a system to collectively keep themselves away from that Pandorra box, there are plenty of good Russian and Chinese data scientists who consider it a patriotic duty to contribute to the decline of democracy.

[The Minsky Moment]

Well, I've never spoken with this program, but Alexa is as dumb as a box of hammers.

The transcript indicates superior communicative ability though by admission it was massaged.

[grumbler]

Well, I've never spoken with this program, but Alexa is as dumb as a box of hammers.

Is a a box of hammers smarter or dumber than a bag of hammers?  I've never been able to clearly sort out the different configurations of hammers as regards intelligence.

[crazy canuck]

Well, I've never spoken with this program, but Alexa is as dumb as a box of hammers.

Is a a box of hammers smarter or dumber than a bag of hammers?  I've never been able to clearly sort out the different configurations of hammers as regards intelligence.

A sack of hammers neared sentience and and so is no longer used. 

[grumbler]

Well, I've never spoken with this program, but Alexa is as dumb as a box of hammers.

Is a a box of hammers smarter or dumber than a bag of hammers?  I've never been able to clearly sort out the different configurations of hammers as regards intelligence.

A sack of hammers neared sentience and and so is no longer used. 

What about bags of hammers?

[viper37]

Robots are making French fries faster, better than humans

Rejoice!  Fast food will still exists for a while!

[HVC]

Just wait until the invent a Bending Industrial Robot, that's when the fun really starts

[crazy canuck]

Well, I've never spoken with this program, but Alexa is as dumb as a box of hammers.

Is a a box of hammers smarter or dumber than a bag of hammers?  I've never been able to clearly sort out the different configurations of hammers as regards intelligence.

A sack of hammers neared sentience and and so is no longer used. 

What about bags of hammers?

They are a formidable network

[The Brain]

The recent AI art stuff has given me the biggest "the future is now" feeling I've had in a long time. With art becoming much cheaper and quicker to produce there's exciting times ahead.

[DGuller]

I finally got through to try out ChatGPT.  My very first request for it was to write me a convolutional autoencoder neural network.  It wrote me a working convolutional autoencoder network.

[DGuller]

There is one problem with its code, though:  the stupid thing doesn't use spaces around the equals sign inside named function arguments.  I hate people who do that.  I wonder if I can ask it to use spaces? 

[DGuller]

It complied.  I got the same code with spaces around equals signs.

[Razgovory]

Is Dguller dating now?