Gregory's Server“What next, should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?” is one of those perfect sentences that just sticks in your head
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 @jnadeau You could have the computer remember it for you
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30 May 2024 at 5:30 | Open on federated.saagarjha.com
 @jnadeau @CheapPontoon @jnadeau Your daily reminder that Sam Bankman-Fried and his chums unironically believe that books are stupid & that anything worth saying can be put into a blog post, or auto-summarized by AI. And us plebs are supposed to revere these chucklefucks as geniuses rather than have them committed.  @jnadeau someone — wish I could remember to give proper credit — a few months ago said re: AI generated books, “why would I read a book no one bothered to write?” @Dhmspector @jnadeau Seeing that the book was 'written' or put forth in reading form, the matter may border on whether AI has, or at some point will have, designated personhood. It's probably fair to believe AI is headed for personhood so authorship, while perhaps not a bother, will be attributable. AI is already taking credit in academia for its participation in student submissions and may be considered a necessary feature to help waylay charges of plagiarism at times.  @jnadeau i can never get over the idea - and I wish I'd made a note of where I heard it - that the current generative iterations of 'AI' are essentially the exact reverse of what computers should be doing for us. They should be working the tedious tasks and leaving us time for enjoyment and creation, but instead they're doing all the creation and only leaving behind the tedious tasks. @jnadeau File under: things people who don't actually make anything will never understand.  I feel the same way about programming. It's okay if Copilot wants to do the kubernetes configuration, but the algorithms are mine. @jnadeau "Robot! Experience this tragic irony for me!" @jnadeau This facinates me. I'm reminded of the (very popular) AI-voiced (and probably AI-scripted) recap videos on youtube. There's whole channels dedicated to summarizing movies and TV shows with badly done computer-generated voiceovers. I've watched a couple myself, and while I find them grating, I also found them pretty useful for getting the gist of a movie or show that I wasn't heavily invested in watching. @jnadeau Those videos are immensely popular, and an obvious source of passive income for whoever is churning them out. The channels show up, get copyright struck, disappear, show up again... probably programmatically generated. In short, there ARE some people who want AI to watch TV for them. @jnadeau The joke about AI eating your dinner also has weird resonance with some people. Consider all the liquid meal replacements, clearly meant to bypass all that boring eating so the person drinking them can speedrun getting their calories and stabilizing their blood sugar. I'm not going to mock that, as I myself have relied on them more than once, and there's a definite element of assistive-technology to them for certain types of neurodivergence. @jnadeau I guess the point I'm making is that human beings love shortcuts. In some ways that's most of what our brain does. Most engineering is about making a hard thing easier. We also, as a species, have an obsession with Ideas and mistakenly believe that Ideas have value. Ideas are practically worthless, we all have hundreds of them, but we treat concepts as if they're worth more than the execution of said concepts. @jnadeau I think AI generated art is doing incredible harm, largely because of the extensive use of plagiarism in it's creation, but the argument that it's somehow counter to human nature? I'm not so sure. There are lots of people who enjoy hard work, or at least enjoy specific kinds of hard work that they're good at, but there's tons of real actual humans who want the result without any of the effort of getting there. @jnadeau I've seen some _really_ _really_ bad tattoos that people are stuck with forever. I get the point here, but I just have to point out that many people would be better off with a soulless AI generated tattoo design. Of course, the actual execution would still be done by a person currently, so there's still plenty of room for the worst of both worlds.  @jnadeau I already hear an overly enthusiastic elevator pitch about new tech that eats wives and fucks dinners. |
