MIT Engineers

[eCat]

my son has an Occulus VR thing.

So I was playing around with it tonight, they have a TV system where they make different things especially for the VR

one is called "Surviving 9/11" and I watched it. at one point you are in a conference room on the 64th floor when the plane hits and you look out the window and all this trash and shit is falling out of of the windows

Its kinda fucked up.

another one is climbing Everest. Its amazing

[hedge]

What's up with this ChatGPT thing? Is it going to change the world?

[eCat]

its pretty scary

AI can write term papers, news articles, songs

[hedge]

Well at least we know that IB isn't an AI bot. An AI bot couldn't be that dumb...

[hedge]

Seems like you could submit a student's paper to the AI Chatbot and ask it if it thinks it was written by an AI Chatbot. A guy over at IC who is some kind of teacher (I don't know if it's high school or college) said he'd asked the AI program about how to stop kids from cheating using AI and that it offered some helpful ideas. Others over there were talking about how it could write code if given the proper parameters. Seems like it would be a great aid to doctors and lawyers too...

[eCat]

we make jokes about skynet but Musk is warning people that unchecked AI can spiral out of control

driverless cars are cool, driverless drones with armed missiles, not so much

[aTm]

I actually toyed with the idea of creating a new “user” who was just ai prompted responses that I posted and see if any of you figured it out

[eCat]

AI hasn't scammed me out of money for porn yet


yet

[hedge]

I actually toyed with the idea of creating a new “user” who was just ai prompted responses that I posted and see if any of you figured it out

Do it...

[hedge]

What's the term for an early model that's used to test for bugs and such? Beta? Whatever comes before beta, I'm pretty sure that's what goldenbear was...

[hedge]

Seems like you could feed in all of our chatting history in here (and in every other forum we used before we ended up in this one) and the AI would be able to give a passable facsimile of what any of our responses would be to almost any comment or query. It wouldn't really be you, but it would be based on 20+ years worth of "reading" what we've all written in here. The AI bot would in essence learn how to be any one of us, at least insofar as what we've posted in here (and elsewhere) for a long period of time. Then our children and grandchildren (and beyond) could kinda communicate with us after we're dead (softball for somebody there). Maybe AI is the key to a kind of immortality, even if we'd never be aware of it ourselves. I've read that AI can pretty well recreate any writer's style. Some are easier (like say Hemingway), but after all these years, we've all pretty much written multiple novels worth of text. Not anything anybody would pay to read, of course, but that's not the point. We've left a pretty good verbal footprint...

[eCat]

90% of it would be insulting us with creative ways to die

[hedge]

Yeah, that might not be what our great-grandchildren would be expecting from a "conversation" with us. "Hey grandpa, I played my first game of T-ball with a real bat today!" "I'd like to tee your head up on stick and beat it with a bat." "MOMMY!!!!"

[Jungle Rat]

I actually toyed with the idea of creating a new “user” who was just ai prompted responses that I posted and see if any of you figured it out

We don't allow new users here.

[aTm]

We should cull some of the old users.

[DooKSucks]

we make jokes about skynet but Musk is warning people that unchecked AI can spiral out of control

driverless cars are cool, driverless drones with armed missiles, not so much

That's like the axe murderer telling you to watch out for crazy people with axes.

The man sells cars with operating systems he can update and change as he pleases, owns what he wants to be the internet's main forum for public discussion (and it largely is already), is building a giant satellite network to serve as an ISP, is building rockets with the power to travel millions of miles, rockets that could be converted to deadly use like all rockets of that type, and he is literally inserting chips into people under the premise of medical treatment but who the fuck knows what else the chips could do to someone. That's just the icing on the cake. The man is a literal Bond villain just waiting to hatch some crazy shit.

[eCat]

I know but if he is saying watch out, then I'm gonna pay attention

You don't hear Tim Cook saying watch out for GPS in cell phones.

[aTm]

Only people capable of getting elected, like Donald Trump, should have such powers.

[eCat]

I hope I'm around and financially capable of getting a driverless car someday

I'll probably be 75 and they'll cost $150K, so I'll be driving around in a '99 Camry yelling at clouds

[hedge]

Probably cheaper to hire a chauffeur...

Lotta people gonna be out of work when driverless really becomes a thing. I know all technological revolutions leave some people behind and also creates opportunities for new types of jobs, but I can assure you that truck drivers are for the most part people who ain't gonna be able to transition into, say, coding. I welcome the End of Work, but I'm not sure how it's going to work. There's just going to be a lot of shit that's not going to require a human to do it, but many people are going to be bitter that people who don't work will be getting some kind of support, somehow, without working for it. That's going to chap their asses.

HL Mencken defined Puritanism as the haunting fear that somebody, somewhere, might be happy. You can also say the same thing about the Protestant work ethic: The haunting fear that somebody, somewhere, isn't working...