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@zakalwe @rettichschnidi what if AI word matching, what is the most statistically likely thing that that should be said next, is about 50% of how human thinking goes? And some people don't have much more.
What if the words mapped onto unconscious thinking in a human really is similar to what AI does, and the AI is only missing the deeper part, the motivations, the need to accomplish something with the words. The continuity and purpose might be the only things missing.
@zakalwe @rettichschnidi you know, what I am really worried about is, "what if a substantial section of the population do not think much differently than AI?" What if there are people out there who only have emotions, that are only reactionary, and the words they use are matched to those emotions without really comprehending the definitions?
"No, your guy is the pedophile."
"No, you are angry."
My mom thought "tattoos" and "feminists" were bad things. Emotional reactions to words.
@zakalwe @rettichschnidi this crash will almost certainly guarantee that no real AI gets VC funding for about a hundred years.
And I am not sure if that is good or bad for the research.
@rettichschnidi On The Verge Podcast, Nilay and David had an hour long rant about how AI can not even turn on the lights.
Integrating AI into smart home controls seems like a winner. But AI doesn't actually understand what the words it is statistically using mean. So it doesn't know when it is wrong. It doesn't know why. It doesn't have anyway of checking to see if it accomplished the thing it was supposed to do. And it is a substantial set back in reliability from traditional programming.
@rettichschnidi best quote "the thing to remember about vibe coding is that sometimes the vibes are bad".
@stux I was thinking about this recently.
Say there was a new country, called Cascadia. And entering at the borders was completely unrestricted. You couldn't own land in Cascadia or have a job in Cascadia without citizenship, because they needed taxes from workers and land owners. But if you signed up for the National Guard, you could get provisional citizenship that converted to permanent at 2 years.
If you love your country enough to defend it, even as a dishwasher, it is yours.
@stux @kallistomind keep in mind, that is strictly because all the land was once a public resources for grazing and foraging, then was privatized.
You can't farm without private land, to make that worked resource pay off for the people who put the labor into improving its yield. But...
@stux Disney almost owns everything in entertainment at this point, and half of all the AI porn output I have seen, realistic or animated, is clearly based on a Disney character, sooo, yeah...
There are not enough assets in the world to make up for that. The mouse is going to own all the AI as compensation.