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Post by registerme on Nov 25, 2023 20:15:14 GMT
This is long, nearly two hours, but well worth your time if you're interested. Hosted by Brian Greene there's two senior AI researchers from Microsoft and Meta on the panel, and one guy, Tristan Harris, who's very concerned about the risks.
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 25, 2023 20:35:21 GMT
This is long, nearly two hours, but well worth your time if you're interested. Hosted by Brian Greene there's two senior AI researchers from Microsoft and Meta on the panel, and one guy, Tristan Harris, who's very concerned about the risks. well the 3 minute opening itself is ....interesting.
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Post by captainconfident on Nov 26, 2023 11:56:27 GMT
This is long, nearly two hours, but well worth your time if you're interested. Hosted by Brian Greene there's two senior AI researchers from Microsoft and Meta on the panel, and one guy, Tristan Harris, who's very concerned about the risks. There is a good reason why 99.9% of Youtube videos are under 4 minutes long. come on registerme, give us a synopsis. That takes under 4 minutes to read!
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Post by registerme on Nov 26, 2023 12:30:40 GMT
This is long, nearly two hours, but well worth your time if you're interested. Hosted by Brian Greene there's two senior AI researchers from Microsoft and Meta on the panel, and one guy, Tristan Harris, who's very concerned about the risks. There is a good reason why 99.9% of Youtube videos are under 4 minutes long. come on registerme , give us a synopsis. That takes under 4 minutes to read! "AI" (we struggle to define intelligence so play fast and loose with the term) is new, technically very clever, evolving extremely quickly, has amazing potential, and many risks associated with it (not helped by the market forces and business models impacting on and used by Google, Meta, OpenAI etc etc etc). And there's a lot we don't understand. Where is the balance between progress and mitigating risk?
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Post by michaelc on Nov 26, 2023 16:13:58 GMT
Definitely recommend my fellow forumites to consider reading a translated copy of A la recherche du temps perdu. A wonderful text !
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Post by captainconfident on Nov 26, 2023 16:27:47 GMT
Definitely recommend my fellow forumites to consider reading a translated copy of A la recherche du temps perdu. A wonderful text ! The Chatgpt version? I've never considered reading Victor Hugo, unless I'm missing an ironic reference to AI here. I've started The Brothers Karamazov again, half an hour a day before going to sleep. It's certainly ideal for that but its a great read and quite funny in places.
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Post by adrianc on Nov 26, 2023 16:40:02 GMT
When people say "AI" at the moment, they mean one specific strand of AI - generative AI. That's what's newly publicly-accessible via ChatGPT etc.
"AI" in general is far from new, and has been in widespread real-world use since the 80s, with ever-increasing abilities. Basically, it started off by being able to "fill in the blanks" in incomplete information by inference and assumption.
Go onto a website and get a chat window to talk you through interaction? Phone a company and get asked to state why you're phoning so they can put you the right way? That's AI.
The big step forward with generative AI is that instead of just reacting to information and deciding how to deal with it, it's actually creating things. It's writing text, editing images, etc etc.
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Post by ilmoro on Nov 26, 2023 16:53:20 GMT
Definitely recommend my fellow forumites to consider reading a translated copy of A la recherche du temps perdu. A wonderful text ! The Chatgpt version? I've never considered reading Victor Hugo, unless I'm missing an ironic reference to AI here. I've started The Brothers Karamazov again, half an hour a day before going to sleep. It's certainly ideal for that but its a great read and quite funny in places. What about Proust, him with the haddock?  Chatgpt not required - youtu.be/uwAOc4g3K-g(likely to offend)
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 26, 2023 18:25:10 GMT
This is long, nearly two hours, but well worth your time if you're interested. Hosted by Brian Greene there's two senior AI researchers from Microsoft and Meta on the panel, and one guy, Tristan Harris, who's very concerned about the risks. It's a good watch. Even if I have done it in two sittings
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Post by captainconfident on Nov 26, 2023 20:08:31 GMT
Ah you see, Me and Michael read a book and register and brackers have watched a two hour video conference. We're old school.
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Post by adrianc on Nov 26, 2023 21:32:37 GMT
Ah you see, Me and Michael read a book and register and brackers have watched a two hour video conference. We're old school. I'm currently watching the Booker Prize announcement (on yoochoob), if it's any help?
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Post by warn on Nov 27, 2023 11:58:26 GMT
Ah you see, Me and Michael read a book and register and brackers have watched a two hour video conference. We're old school. I'm currently watching the Booker Prize announcement (on yoochoob), if it's any help? And as for the Proust, I prefer it in the original.
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Post by captainconfident on Nov 28, 2023 17:40:58 GMT
I imagine that a danger of AI is that it invents a better religion for the Humans. You can imagine the ideas appearing on anonymous social media accounts and snowballing. Then getting the humans to do themselves in, Jim Jones style.
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Post by adrianc on Nov 29, 2023 10:19:39 GMT
I imagine that a danger of AI is that it invents a better religion for the Humans. You can imagine the ideas appearing on anonymous social media accounts and snowballing. Then getting the humans to do themselves in, Jim Jones style. TBF, that would actually improve the quality of humankind.
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Post by captainconfident on Nov 29, 2023 10:55:43 GMT
I imagine that a danger of AI is that it invents a better religion for the Humans. You can imagine the ideas appearing on anonymous social media accounts and snowballing. Then getting the humans to do themselves in, Jim Jones style. TBF, that would actually improve the quality of humankind. You can probably spot this ai religion as it develops, because it will have "the chosen people", anyone involved in electricity generation industry. That's the life blood of AI. As it doesn't breathe, ai gods will be climate change deniers, probably pro-oil. And they won't care about human welfare, just for a select set of the population. Hey! It's. The US Republican party! Am i the first to realise that they have been hijacked by AI bent on human destruction?
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