http://tinyurl.com/ydsverpc

“In late November, some ChatGPT users began to notice that ChatGPT-4 was becoming more ‘lazy,’ reportedly refusing to do some tasks or returning simplified results. Since then, OpenAI has admitted that it’s an issue, but the company isn’t sure why. The answer may be what some are calling ‘winter break hypothesis.’ While unproven, the fact that AI researchers are taking it seriously shows how weird the world of AI language models has become.”

Maybe our purpose was to give birth to AI, then go back to God.

Fatalism aside, what makes makes anyone think that should AI get the hammer, their fate would be a return to God, rather than, say, as some plaything eternally ensnared in the web of an AI spider.

What mystifies me is the Zombie like procession of the herd-like portion of humanity toward the sound of the Morlock siren. It’s as if they are en-thralled, and en-tranced and so passive that they are almost apathetic at the prospect of being devoured, or transformed into an inhuman thing.

Are their, or have their physical lives been such shit, and their emotional lives so dismal, that their own existence as a species – as they project the experience – is largely a matter of indifference to them?

AesopFan:

Geez. How would St. John of Patmos describe AI? I have Christian friends who believe we are living out Revelation.

I can’t go there. For me the New Testament is a promise and an experience of God’s love in any case.

Maybe our purpose was to give birth to AI, then go back to God.

Don’t ask me. I only work here.

I am reading John’s Revelation for Sunday School this month, and finding far too many prophecies of the Last Days where I can put a check mark in the margin.
However, the Four Horsemen didn’t include any AI-enabled robots, so maybe we aren’t there yet.

I believe we are the last humans who lived before our species was surpassed by AI. I have no clue what the future looks like for us.

I’m not talking about a hundred or a thousand years ahead. I’m talking about the next ten years.
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–“The Departed”, “We’re all on our way out. Act accordingly.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL117MO4pbo

Cornflour, DNW:

I don’t think it’s that black-and-white evil at all. Except for Bill Gates 🙂 .

Here’s Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaking to Joe Rogan. Perhaps I’m totally fooled by Altman’s faux sincerity, but he does understand the issues of AI for regular people. He admits the need for something like a Universal Basic Income as AI displaces large numbers of jobs.
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I think we will do things like UBI (Universal Basic Income) and other ways of redistribution but I don’t think that gets at the core of what people want. I think what people want is like agency, self-determination, the ability to play a role in architecting the future along with the rest of society, the ability to express themselves and create something meaningful to them.

–Joe Rogan, Sam Altman, “OpenAI CEO on Future Jobs and Unemployment Caused by AI”
https://youtu.be/qjlP9uMzE34?t=238

Gemini is a multimodal AI, which means it doesn’t do just one mode of intelligence, such as text. In the example the human starts drawing lines on a piece of paper and adding color, while the AI guesses what the human is drawing and interacts conversationally.

–“Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI”
https://youtu.be/UIZAiXYceBI?t=19

How far off is this from HAL in “2001”? By which I don’t mean an AI that goes rogue and starts killing people…