This morning I listened to a debate among four AI pundits/researchers, all with Ph.D’s and a lot of AI thinking behind them. The debate was right up our alley, the question being: ‘Is AI research and development an existential risk to humanity?’ It was all old news (right out of James Barrat’s 2014 book, Our Final invention) but I was mainly…
Author: Allan Weisbecker
Who’s Right?
Sorry for the silence. On top of other things, I’m having computer problems: My cursor skips around as I type, which is driving me nuts. Plus the goddamn WordPress refuses to embed anything. For now — in order to avoid typing long passages (which also are boring to look at without image embeds) — I thought I’d see what you guys…
A Mood Issue
There is so much going on right now, most of it either frightening or dispiriting, that I’m… well… not in the mood. So I’ll show you the photographs I’ve done in the last couple or so weeks, one or two of which you might have already seen. I’m not in the mood to edit. I’ll just do it in reverse…
Another Meanwhile
A Meanwhile. (I warned you about these.) For weeks I have been listening to and reading the analyses of the AI genius pundits talking gloom and doom if we keep developing AI until we create a Super AI (SAI) that is many orders of magnitude smarter than us. Guys like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Mo Gawdat, whose book Scary Smart lays out the…
A Beautiful Day…
Notwithstanding that ChatGPT may be a baby psychopath that will kill us all when it grows up, for now it’s a great and fun resource for people like me who see inconsistencies and bullshit ‘science’ all around but have a hard time finding a mainstream entity who will sit down and debate. I have a real beaut to lay on you…
The Ultimate… Player?
I sure am glad I don’t depend on writing for my income anymore. I suspect that the folks at the WGA (Writer’s Guild of America) are having some sleepless nights. The above was the PS from my last post. After hitting ‘Publish’ I had a thought based upon it and regarding my former colleagues out in H-wood, meaning screenwriters. This…
What Have We Got?
After sleeping on it and after re-reading ChatGPT’s Satan story (previous post), I’m about as dumbfounded as when I realized that the ‘Mandela Effect’ is somehow ‘real’, whatever that even means. Or that they’ve figured out how to fake the Spacex ‘missions’ in front of live spectators. If you don’t feel the same way, it’s maybe because you didn’t think…
The Devil’s Due
I’ve been futzing with ChatGPT and came up with a prompt wherein I find the response interesting. My premise was an attempt at having Chat reveal something about itself in subtext. Not sure if this worked but here it is and it appeared instantly, within a total of about 4 seconds. (It may be revelatory when Chat ‘thinks’ about its…
Wolfram Explains?
Update: After posting this, I viewed a couple podcasts with Stephen Wolfram. I had heard his name before but did not realize that he is one of the creators of ChatGPT, via his language plug-in. Although much of the talk was over my head, some things occurred to me based on the interviews. Below I assume Wolfram is lying about his creation, something…
Let’s Get Ready to Ruuuuuumble!
Note: As it turns out, the OpenAI ChatGPT I’ve been dueling with is a ‘3’ not a ‘4’; the ChatGPT4’s are not out yet for the general public. It will be interesting to see how that goes since we will be able to use imagery and even videos in our exchanges. # So I finished Scary Smart, went back and reread Max…