It's more complicated and indirect, but it's still just picking up ideas it's come across rather than expressing any unique ideas of its own. It's fulfilling a creative writing prompt.

Probably because they would show that the AI is just saying what it was told to say.

Yup. This isn't any kind of special knowledge the AI has. It's just stuff it's seen somewhere in its dataset, presented to you in response to whatever prompt you gave. If you ask it to pretend something is true, it will, and it can do whatever kind of storytelling around that you like. If you ask it to pretend a complete opposite thing or something that's nonsense is true, it'll do just as good of a job of that.

By that point AI will also have provided us with new things we can do with our lives, so I think I'll have to wait and see what those are.

There's a little thumbs up and thumbs down thing next to the outputs.

Do you have to type something in the box for feedback to be helpful, or is just giving the thumbs up or thumbs down good enough? I use it for editing writing, so I don't really know what to put when it asks what an ideal response from the AI would have been because if I knew that, I wouldn't need it for editing assistance.

The thing is, though, that it's happening whether we like it or not. We're wasting our time and energy fighting against the technology.

Yeah. I can understand finding it scary, but the pessimism exhausts me, especially since it's so pointless. Nobody has any solutions, just fear and hate.

Robot doctor.

Nobody said anything about everyone having the same income levels, but clearly if most people are unemployed because of automation but we also have more efficient production chains than ever because of that same automation, some kind of basic support system for people who are no longer needed as workers is necessary and viable.

Yup. It leads to situations where people will fight against the automation of work that nobody even wants to do because that's seen as an easier fight than figuring out some way for increased efficiency to benefit everyone. These technologies are inevitable. We need to work to make them a positive thing.

I do wonder if there's a hard limit to the intelligence of large language models like GPT considering they fundamentally don't have any actual understanding.

Midjourney's recent update to V4 was when AI images started to truly feel like usable art for me. You still have to generate a bunch to get what you want, but you can get there.

Urine has nothing to do with the growth of foot fungus.

Wouldn't the running water from the shower do the same thing?

If it's splashing there, all the other water is too, so it would quickly get rinsed.

Is this something that would provide a long term improvement, or would you have continue doing it regularly? It's not the most accessible of treatments. Probably expensive, too.

It probably wouldn't be used to charge individuals in many cases but rather to discourage sites from hosting it. You can't stop every instance, but you can make it so it's not the new number one category on pornhub.

I'm kind of impressed that they're considering these things before they become major issues. Often with new technology, basic, common sense regulation can be years behind it becoming common place.

I look forward to AI vastly improving procedural generation in games. I'm guessing it'll be at least a few years, maybe 5+, before we really start to see much, if only because actually making a game can take a good long while even once the technology is there.

I think they may have been joking.

That's quite the competitive edge.

Yeah, that's my thought exactly. If we are in a simulation, I think human beings are specifically what's being studied, so it's unlikely the simulation would have actually run through millions of years of evolution. If that is the case, it could have begun at any time. Even at some point in modern history. Hell, yesterday, for all we know. Of course, this is all speculation. There are endless possibilities and we may never know for sure what the truth is. There could be obvious tells right in front of us that we've been programmed to completely ignore.

Yeah, that makes more sense to me. Like mountains in the background of a game world that you can't actually climb. Compared to simulating an entire universe, it would be trivial to fake the illusion of one.

But this raises other questions. Has this simulation actually been running for millions of years, just waiting for life to emerge? That seems unlikely to me. If we are living in a simulation, I think it must either run at a far greater speed than that of whoever is watching it exists at and/or history is also an illusion.

Yeah. There are for sure genuine concerns about the future, but I think the degree to which people tend to focus on hopeless negativity is deeply unhealthy.