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Antonio's avatar

Sounds like a dream, but IMHO and other experts’, LLM based AI isn’t the break through that some fear and others expect. We’ll know for sure in no time. If the bubble explodes in a couple of years we’ll have to wait for the next model.

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R.J. Marx's avatar

Fun to follow your posts - existential dread one day, optimistic hope the next! Maybe the future lays somewhere in between...?

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Steve Wolf's avatar

AI stuff on YouTube spits out reconstituted and recombined material by Nietzsche, Jung, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Viktor Frankl and others. Sometimes the AI voice is incredibly annoying, other times not. It's still interesting to listen to, even when its provenance might be a bit dodgy.

I haven't really drawn any conclusions on AI, thought I suspect it's a double-edged sword.

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@suzannecloud's avatar

Bret, Geoffrey Hinton scares me to death, and Altman's OpenAI is going FOR profit. Doesn't bode well for us mere humans. Have I used it? Sure, as a glorfied Google (cuz Google's all fucked up). Your satirical panacea here reads like a robotic index finger curling itself up to our faces, luring us in to a future filled with 1's and 0's, numbing us with transcendental algorithms. Oh well, I've heard being BORG isn't SO bad. 🤖

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Eric Rosenberg's avatar

You're full of surprises, my friend. Sounds good, in theory, but I have a much more measured POV. No disputing the creative potential of AI, but every major technological leap has started with noble intentions and then inevitably gets exploited for evil. And the potential of AI for evil dwarfs everything that came before it. The unfettered, unregulated AI race is driven by greed on the corporate side and lust for world domination on the government side. It's hard to buy the altruism and for the advancement of mankind angle. They're in cahoots. Look no further than the list of donors to Trump's WH demo and monument to his ego.

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Justin E. Schutz's avatar

This article confused me at first. I guess I had an expectation (often a potentially limiting and negeative attitude for the bearer) of what the content would be. On finishing it I knew I would have to go back and read it again. Before I did that I read further into "Coltrane", then I got it, I think. I still have to read the article again but I experienced a mind shift that I feel is the difference. Good to be challenged. Don't want to be an old man with an immovable attitude. Thanx for your writing, as always.

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