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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • Thanks! I don’t know what you mean by your first paragraph.

    You’re right that it’s not near being an AGI. But it doesn’t need to be to be used in a robot form and perform some useful tasks.

    Right now I can ask chatgpt to take a block of code in Ruby and output the equivalent in Python, and it will do it, and for the most part it’s correct.

    I could envision telling an AI robot to sort this pile of parts by type, or pick up all the sticks in the yard, etc. I think we could make something like that now without any significant technological breakthroughs. It might get stuff wrong sometimes, but I envision it as having an intern, not creating a new god. Of course these companies may promise much more in their marketing.




  • I feel like people who shit on AI so much live in a different reality than I do.

    I’ll put the big caveats here: I hate venture capital, I think people are over hyping less likely risks (creating skynet) while underplaying more likely ones (taking people’s jobs, flooding the Internet with shitty content/misinformation). All AI gets stuff wrong some of the time.

    That said, I’ve been impressed with what it can do and use it more days than not. I don’t see a fundamental reason why AI wouldn’t be effective at controlling a robot body. Currently something like chatGPT responds after a user types a prompt. But what if the prompt was just audio/video/sensory input every fraction of a second? I don’t think this is far fetched, if you threw enough money at it.







  • You’re right it’s appropriate to say “wtf America” about gun violence generally. I think what I was stuck on is while extremely fucked up that someone shot a person for turning around in their driveway, in a country of over 300 million people that particular thing is still a fluke. I hadn’t heard of the other incidents mentioned in that Wikipedia article until you said there were four.