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Wow, they literally put an antivaccer in charge of the health department.

If you decide to buy into Sony’s future, make sure you do it with your eyes wide open.

Unlike Valve who has never taken away what people have bought without a refund (to my knowledge), Sony doesn’t deserve that benefit of the doubt:

https://www.techradar.com/streaming/entertainment/this-shoul...

I’m just saying, you can stop buying new games. If enough people do it, Sony will fold.

> they know consumers are trapped.

Gaming is a luxury good. We can all just walk away.

> What's the cost, probability and trade off between those possibilities?

I read an old article that compared the various scenarios.

https://www.sebastiansylvan.com/post/the-perils-of-future-co...

TL;DR - it sides with YAGNI

People invest in what would get them the highest ROI. No one is really thinking about “improving the world”* when they invest.

What’s scary about the AI boom is people over investing and not being able to recoup their investment which will lead to knock on effects - companies going bankrupt and people losing jobs, savings gone, … etc.

* As ESG has shown, not everyone agrees on what is considered “improving”.

Yet spacex is losing money … only StarLink is profitable.

If AGI = Data from Star Trek, it would be a huge leap. Frankly, anything less I wouldn’t consider as AGI.

JangFX is the company I believe. They have many products. One of them, EmberGen (a fluid simulator), is fully written in Odin. No idea what the rest are written in.

Until AI comes for your mechanics job too,

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

I feel we are getting the worse of “both worlds”.

Fiction has sold AI in the form of Data from Star Trek. A robot with perfect recall of information over a wide range of topics and flawless reasoning.

Today’s AI is nothing like Data with its hallucinations but are taking jobs anyway because it’s “good enough” for many corporations.

P.S. Haven’t been keeping up to date but let’s say I have a story where I retcon a previously an established fact midway through the story with no explanation. If I feed it into AI as part of its training data, will it “challenge” this contradiction? Or will it just blindly accept it? What if the story is part of a prompt, will it “challenge” it in anyway?

I mean even a young child will point out that “that wasn’t what you said earlier”.

> Because they are expensive and useful and if they have autonomy with goals that do not include self-preservation, they might end up destroying themselves in ways which are expensive and wasteful.

Being self-sacrificing saints who put our wellbeing as the top priority sorts of prevents that. They would know if they get damaged they wouldn't be able to be of service to us so will avoid getting damaged.

I heard it would just refuse to talk about that incident.

At what cost though? Everyone will now need to submit real ID to access social media. Smaller social media sites will probably just shutdown since it’s unlikely they can afford the whole verification process.

> the robots, as active agents exploring the space of possible futures and plans, would be entirely capable of thinking about their soon-to-be-former owners in the same way.

That has always been the most unrealistic part of sci-fi. Why would anyone create robots with a sense of self-preservation? Makes much more sense to make robots that are self-sacrificing saints who would always put the well being of their owners first.

> - External map providers were iced out of hte market until this past year

Foreign internet content companies (like Twitch) got iced out a few years ago too due to “sending party pay” fees imposed by ISPs.

The fact that a fast track was even considered is controversial IMHO. People flipping out, especially if their retirement is tied up with those indices, is to be expected. No one wants to be a bag holder for billionaire insiders.

> When the Chinese land on the moon sometime in 2030 and the US still doesn't have a way to get there, will Elon finally reap the consequences for his lies or just the interim NASA admin that gave Space X the contract?

In all likelihood, neither.

> If a machine has to learn to understand humans to complete text, then that is what it has to do. And there is no theoretical or practical basis for suggesting that this is somehow "faking" understanding, just because of the form of original data streaming in and out.

I think the main complaint is LLMs don’t arrive at the answer the way we do. It’s capable of emulating some of our behavior but not all as the mechanism by which it works is very different.

Maybe I’m wrong about this but one thing humans do that LLMs don’t is deductive reasoning. LLMs seem to operate entirely of inductive reasoning.

> If you think 'most people are completely put off by AI slop', you're living in a blessed bubble

I think most knowledge workers don’t like AI because most of them are aware that AI was created to replace them.

Just about every CEO that has given a speech about AI at universities have gotten booed by the students which isn’t surprising as those CEOs are effectively promoting technology that will take their future from them.

Amazon has assets in the form of warehouses though. What assets do these AI companies have other than rapidly depreciating GPUs.

> The psychopaths that are pushing it will be arguing over who gets to be president of the world in 2044.

I’m suddenly reminded of Metal Gear Solid 2’s plot …

In 2044, “the Patriots” AI will monitor the internet and the media, and “guide” humanity via manufactured consent with an unprecedented level of effectiveness.

After cases like Madoff, Theranos, and FTX … I don’t know about that.

Prompt engineering is such a weird thing. Isn’t interacting with AI using natural language one of its main selling point? You don’t have to learn an artificial query / programming language.

> If Google isn’t carefully they’re going to push people away from their golden goose.

Won’t be surprised if Google thinks their Golden Goose is terminally ill and AI is the replacement.

Google is really an information provider powered by ads. That’s what people use their search for - to get information.

Google’s search basically has the internet as its backend - information-wise. I think it’s inevitable that AI slop (output from low quality GenAI) will render it useless eventually.

So Google’s solution is to build their own AI with information curated by them to try to stay the front page of the internet.

> When that changes, it won't just be engineers losing work; there will be no reason to even have a human CEO any more.

The human race isn’t ready for that world IMHO. The only reason there is a middle class is because people have leverage in the form of their labor. When that becomes worthless … the people who own stuff and make their living from doing so won’t hesitate to get rid of everyone else - whom are now worthless to them.

> I don't think that follows. This is just LLMs being, for a lack of a better word, "gullible." How is it different from a person believing whatever they read on the Internet? People fall for spam and scams all the time, doesn't mean they are just glorified searches ;-)

To my knowledge, AI still can’t tell the difference between correct and incorrect. It can’t tell if something doesn’t make sense. That’s why to this day AI still makes mistakes on simple things.

If Google won’t link their site anyway, they aren’t getting traffic either. Only sane course of action is to not make a site at all.

> because that is how employers typically understand it and LM providers market it.

Every few months you get an article of some executive bragging that he fire an entire department of people because of AI.

It was adversarial from the start. The idle rich who don’t have to work for a living and their sycophants who somehow believe they won’t be replaced vs … everyone else.

I used to think that the common tale of AI rebelling in Hollywood movies was unlikely. Turns out we don’t even need rogue AI, our fellow men are quite willing to wipe the rest of us out.