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An AI short science fiction story

newintellectual.substack.com
1 points·by RagnarD·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

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RagnarD
·gisteren·discuss
Annoyingly, the new ChatGPT app which folds in Codex, no longer recognizes Shift-Tab to toggle plan mode. Irritatingly you have to enter /plan. OpenAI, fix this!
RagnarD
·17 dagen geleden·discuss
Yes, mental typo. 256KB.
RagnarD
·17 dagen geleden·discuss
Oops! 256KB, not 256MB. Sorry about that. It was on a dedicated image capture board plugged into the PC.
RagnarD
·18 dagen geleden·discuss
I had to use it to do image processing on a 256MB image buffer back in the 1980s in assembly language. It was absolutely hideous. Give me a flat 32 bit memory address space any day (e.g. MC68000 around the same time.)
RagnarD
·19 dagen geleden·discuss
The notebooks should be scanned in color high resolution and then made available online. No need for close proximity after that.
RagnarD
·19 dagen geleden·discuss
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RagnarD
·25 dagen geleden·discuss
I've had pretty good experiences with GTHost: https://gthost.com/
RagnarD
·26 dagen geleden·discuss
Those criticizing those earning billions of dollars think of money as some anonymous fixed pie that magically belongs to everyone. On that completely false view of production (and money), of course it would be offensive for people to grab so much for themselves.

If that's what production was about, humanity never would have left caves.

The ancestors of the fix-pie idea were the ones who would have sneered at the first hut built outside of a cave, at the first crops deliberately sown into the ground, at the first villages built up to provide better living conditions for groups of people including as a trade center.

Everything from 100,000 years ago to today is the result of productive human beings who made more of the world. It's an ongoing process.
RagnarD
·26 dagen geleden·discuss
$275 to restore a long-held childhood dream is cheap, I hope your husband wouldn't complain about that.
RagnarD
·26 dagen geleden·discuss
"... new policies like universal basic income."

Is the engine honest enough to reality to demonstrate failure?
RagnarD
·vorige maand·discuss
The analogy I make is between airplanes and birds.

Birds are alive, are conscious, flap their wings, and fly. Planes are not alive, are not conscious, do not flap their wings - and fly.

Similarly, current AIs are not alive, are not conscious - but think.

All prior entities that thought, were human, so the only experience humans had with other thinking entities were other humans. The huge mistake now being made is assuming that because they think, they're alive and conscious as well. Current AIs are neither, and are therefore profoundly and qualitatively different than humans - even though they do think.
RagnarD
·vorige maand·discuss
Looks like Flux.ai got some publicity out of this. Maybe not the kind they wanted - after reading this thread, I'll sure never give them a dime.
RagnarD
·vorige maand·discuss
It feels hard to be excited by a DGX Spark stuffed into a laptop. It's still slow RAM (much slower than a Mac) and arbitrarily limited to 128GB. Can't they at least offer a higher end model with faster RAM and more of it? Sure it would cost a bundle, but there are still people who'd buy it for the local AI capability.
RagnarD
·vorige maand·discuss
I hope somebody follows up to ensure that the kid isn't being punished for a completely unpredictable event involving a commercial device.
RagnarD
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I think the irony is that the perception of being called a tool as an insult, is exactly your meaning of it.
RagnarD
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Doh.
RagnarD
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
It's mind boggling that they didn't digitize every last scrap of paper around the project years ago, for starters.
RagnarD
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Really glad to see someone asking this question. After building a fairly significant AI tool using Python tools, I really wish AI/ML tools would all be rewritten to use an actually performant language - say, Rust - without transitive dependency hell on all the package versions.
RagnarD
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Well, when there's a software created accident, possibly horrendous, I'm sure Tesla will be relieved that it's one case where they can point to it being a completely unauthorized system for which they reject responsibility.
RagnarD
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Where does it get the realtime data for this?