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Skynet won and destroyed humanity

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Re: Skynet won and destroyed humanity

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Post by bayareateg »

darepublic wrote: post #10
giancarlostoro wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and we are intelligent allegedly My running joke about AI is how can we create artificial intelligence, when we lack so much of it. Sadly I spent more times failing to copy and paste your message than I care to admit. I do gotta say though, it's a bit overhyped. It reminds me of crypto. If you listen to an "aibro" and a "cryptobro" they yap the same.

I can do practical things with ai, I cannot with crypto. I can't speak to the accuracy of numerical valuations but in a shorter time frame I have perceived more changes from AI than crypto.

you can pay for goods and services with crypto..

Re: Skynet won and destroyed humanity

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Post by pavel_lishin »

bayareateg wrote: post #11
darepublic wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can do practical things with ai, I cannot with crypto. I can't speak to the accuracy of numerical valuations but in a shorter time frame I have perceived more changes from AI than crypto.

you can pay for goods and services with crypto..

A small subset of them, sure. Mostly online services, and drugs, as far as I'm aware.

I can't pay my rent or mortgage with crypto; I can't buy groceries with crypto. I can't buy gasoline or pay for electricity with crypto. I don't think I can pay for home internet, or my phone bill, with crypto. I definitely can't pay for any of my child's stuff with crypto.

I think Tesla used to allow you to pay for their cars with crypto, though I'm not sure if that's still the case.

Re: Skynet won and destroyed humanity

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Post by ben_w »

malux85 wrote: post #7

You can tell this was written by a human because they wrote that skynet still used violence in the end. When there’s a large enough intelligence differential, the lower intelligence cannot even tell they are at war (let alone determine who’s winning) Like the ants, unaware of the impending doom of 100 ways their colony is going to be destroyed by humanity - they couldn’t understand it even if we had the means to comm…

Skynet in the Terminator series never struck me as being paticularly high IQ.

It's an electronic mind, so necessarily dependent on electricity, and the opening move was an atomic war that would've damaged power generation and distribution. T3 version was especially foolish, as it was a distributed virus operating on internet connected devices and had no protected core, so it was completely dependent on the civilian power grid.

And I've just now realised that T2, they wasted shapeshifting robots on personal assassination rather than replacing world leaders with impersonators who were pro-AI-rights so there was never a reason to fight in the first place, a-la Westworld's final season, or The World's End, or DS9, …

Re: Skynet won and destroyed humanity

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Post by pavel_lishin »

malux85 wrote: post #7

You can tell this was written by a human because they wrote that skynet still used violence in the end. When there’s a large enough intelligence differential, the lower intelligence cannot even tell they are at war (let alone determine who’s winning) Like the ants, unaware of the impending doom of 100 ways their colony is going to be destroyed by humanity - they couldn’t understand it even if we had the means to comm…

And vice-versa, tbh - when swarms of ants start moving north, messing with AC units, and in general invading us, are they in any way aware of it? Of us? Probably not.

Re: Skynet won and destroyed humanity

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Post by gunian »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #13
bayareateg wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can pay for goods and services with crypto..

A small subset of them, sure. Mostly online services, and drugs, as far as I'm aware. I can't pay my rent or mortgage with crypto; I can't buy groceries with crypto. I can't buy gasoline or pay for electricity with crypto. I don't think I can pay for home internet, or my phone bill, with crypto. I definitely can't pay for any of my child's stuff with crypto. I think Tesla used to allow you to pay for their cars with…

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Re: Skynet won and destroyed humanity

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Post by lawlessone »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #8
gunian wrote: post #4

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> and we are intelligent allegedly My running joke about AI is how can we create artificial intelligence, when we lack so much of it. Sadly I spent more times failing to copy and paste your message than I care to admit. I do gotta say though, it's a bit overhyped. It reminds me of crypto. If you listen to an "aibro" and a "cryptobro" they yap the same.

>My running joke about AI is how can we create artificial intelligence, when we lack so much of it.

Maybe we've fallen into some sort evolutionary trap.

Like that beetle that mates with beer bottles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julodimorpha_bakewelli

The LLMs are just good enough with language to convince they're thinking can many tasks as well as people when often they aren't.

People are talking about us having AGI soon when really we only have something that works with text, it doesn't see the world.

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