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AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by dingnuts »

whimsicalism wrote: post #59
dingnuts wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not afraid of losing my job as an engineer. I can babysit an agent to build software and my expertise will still matter. I'm upset because that's not fun. I chose this career because programming is fun for me. I put up with everything else and I get to code and eat. Now I'm not sure what I like doing if the bot does my coding. Who am I? My whole identity is built around being an intelligent programmer but if inte…

if intelligence is truly commodified, we are effectively post-scarcity or very close to something resembling it. it seems hard to justify like continued massive material deprivation for tons of people in the world on the basis of ‘who am i’ ego for the top like 0.2% income earners globally.

you're conflating income with wealth. as programmers many of us have good salaries, but if those went away we'd have to dig ditches like everyone else.

miss me with the .1% salary stuff -- income is not wealth.

Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by lenerdenator »

jmathai wrote: post #28
abxyz wrote: post #13

Setting aside the uncanny valley, my understanding is that people like seeing people not because they look like people but because it conveys effort and investment on the part of another human being. We want to feel like we're worth someone else's time, in every context. We don't like to interact with people just because that's the only way we can interact but because humans are human. AI avatars are the exact opposi…

I want to interact with a computer like it's a computer. Clicking, dragging and cursing. Who wants to interact with a computer as if it were a human?

People with exponentially more money than sense who sit in echo chambers.

Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by lenerdenator »

dingnuts wrote: post #58
lenerdenator wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but also a huge rise in very explicitly leftist and anti-AI content in a way that did not previously exist - especially on economic/industry issues. It's always existed; you just haven't been around it. It stretches back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution; read about the Luddites, Blanketeers, and John Henry. Humans generally don't like having their livelihoods threatened and that's happening more and mo…

I'm not afraid of losing my job as an engineer. I can babysit an agent to build software and my expertise will still matter. I'm upset because that's not fun. I chose this career because programming is fun for me. I put up with everything else and I get to code and eat. Now I'm not sure what I like doing if the bot does my coding. Who am I? My whole identity is built around being an intelligent programmer but if inte…

It's not just programming.

If they can replace someone who can deal with problems that are of the size that software engineers deal with on a daily basis, they can replace most of the workforce.

Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by lenerdenator »

whimsicalism wrote: post #59
dingnuts wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not afraid of losing my job as an engineer. I can babysit an agent to build software and my expertise will still matter. I'm upset because that's not fun. I chose this career because programming is fun for me. I put up with everything else and I get to code and eat. Now I'm not sure what I like doing if the bot does my coding. Who am I? My whole identity is built around being an intelligent programmer but if inte…

if intelligence is truly commodified, we are effectively post-scarcity or very close to something resembling it. it seems hard to justify like continued massive material deprivation for tons of people in the world on the basis of ‘who am i’ ego for the top like 0.2% income earners globally.

> if intelligence is truly commodified, we are effectively post-scarcity or very close to something resembling it.

We'll never be effectively post-scarcity.

There are people who are banking on scarcity.

Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by geodel »

asdfgjkl wrote: post #22

So it's another case of "let's make a solution for nonexisting problem" in the world of AI? We all hear promises of how AI will save the world and bring about technological innovation and solutions for hard problems, and what we get is replacement for a job that can be done much cheaper by a human being. I am getting major crypto vibes here, promises of greatness and bringing nothing but unnecessary fluff.

> I am getting major crypto vibes here, promises of greatness and bringing nothing but unnecessary fluff.

This is A16z. Calling it unnecessary fluff would be rather polite. I think they are going hard core on to their next scam. Of course crypto vibes is no coincidence here.

Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by geodel »

NewJazz wrote: post #34
bitbasher wrote: post #12

The more AI stuff I see makes me want to purchase a cabin somewhere in remote Montana and start writing a journal.

A16z will find you and put you in a work camp sooner or later.

Will that work involve digging really deep hole for A16z partners to move in. (Of course to survive apocalypse that billionaire VCs are acutely worried about.)

Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by geodel »

NewJazz wrote: post #36
bpt3 wrote: post #29

When can we escape a16z ramming worse than useless concepts down our throats and telling us how great they are in a sanctimonious fashion? That will be the greatest advancement of the millennium for humankind.

Don't go on HN. This is pretty much the only place that gives this guy attention from what I've seen.

TBH mainstream media has launched these guys into stratosphere. At least in here they do get fair amount of verbal lashing.

Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by anon_hack33rr »

imaginationra wrote: post #39

I as an artist will be happy to see all these useless talking head "content creators" get replaced by AI Avatars- So then only real artists and ai will remain- these "content creator" human avatar golems were always transitory anyway- software can chase algo's/trends better than any human so good riddance-

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