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AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by watwut »

inglor_cz wrote: post #87
sph wrote: post #80

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McDonalds serves a need: human tend to get hungry. What need does filling the Internet with AI-generated slop serve? No one is ever going to read those. As I've shown, sometimes they're not even selling anything. The multi-trillion dollar business is for hyperscalers, but I don't get what slop creators get out of this. What are they spending money for?

I wouldn't underestimate the market for AI videos. From funny to hyperpolitical/propagandist. One of the most globally recognized attribute of the recent US-Iranian war was the Lego cartoons. This sort of content will be soon churned out by everyone.

The propaganda lego cartoons I have seen were not AI slop. They were also perfectly doable in a traditional studio. The lyrics had meaning - insulting but a real one. They were not constrained to truth, but that seemed like normal propaganda lying rather then hallucinations. The lying was very purposeful.

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by alper »

pjc50 wrote: post #20

> I now work with governments around the world at the Tony Blair Institute, which means I spend a lot of time in rooms where people ask the same question: what can we actually trust these systems to do? Oh no - we're going to end up with the Starmerbot 3000. Now I've got the joke out of the way, there's at least four interesting lines of inquiry one could take with this blog post: - teaching the AI how to play Civili…

> the Tony Blair Institute

Making war crimes palatable?

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by teekert »

geon wrote: post #86
teekert wrote: post #19

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It's not this, it's that. And then what happened? This. I did that... This happened. It's a thing I don't know why But it's a thing To be honest, it's not a thing. Let that sink in. Maybe we find most meaning in the least average language constructs.

Like a horoscope. I suppose we humans are so good at reading between the lines, that we will see meaning where there is none.

Or, we saw all the average stuff. And are only triggered by the really awe inspiring that hits a nerve, if it falls into fertile ground, at that moment in time. When you are ready for it.

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by ForHackernews »

zkmon wrote: post #92
ForHackernews wrote: post #51

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Both fat people and black people offend our dear @zkmon's refined sensibilities as a 21st century race scientist.

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Actually it might do you good to speak to a scientist. You seem to be confusing different species of birds with different races of humans; we are all one species, and a fairly closely-related species as far as mammals go[0]

[0] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/august/human-ancest...

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by zkmon »

ForHackernews wrote: post #95
zkmon wrote: post #92

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Actually it might do you good to speak to a scientist. You seem to be confusing different species of birds with different races of humans; we are all one species, and a fairly closely-related species as far as mammals go[0] [0] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/august/human-ancest...

You notion of "species are OK to be aware of differences, but races are not" - is flawed. Species and races are just two levels of hierarchy which has several such levels of distinction and evolution branching across flora and fauna. There are further levels of branching below the "race" level too, the evolution of which is defined by the differences. It is a continuous spectrum. You can't single out two levels somewhere in the middle and assign some arbitrary and inconsistent rules.

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by inglor_cz »

watwut wrote: post #91
inglor_cz wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't underestimate the market for AI videos. From funny to hyperpolitical/propagandist. One of the most globally recognized attribute of the recent US-Iranian war was the Lego cartoons. This sort of content will be soon churned out by everyone.

The propaganda lego cartoons I have seen were not AI slop. They were also perfectly doable in a traditional studio. The lyrics had meaning - insulting but a real one. They were not constrained to truth, but that seemed like normal propaganda lying rather then hallucinations. The lying was very purposeful.

"They were also perfectly doable in a traditional studio."

You can do fifty times more of them with AI, though.

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by ForHackernews »

zkmon wrote: post #96
ForHackernews wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually it might do you good to speak to a scientist. You seem to be confusing different species of birds with different races of humans; we are all one species, and a fairly closely-related species as far as mammals go[0] [0] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/august/human-ancest...

You notion of "species are OK to be aware of differences, but races are not" - is flawed. Species and races are just two levels of hierarchy which has several such levels of distinction and evolution branching across flora and fauna. There are further levels of branching below the "race" level too, the evolution of which is defined by the differences. It is a continuous spectrum. You can't single out two levels somew…

You should just be honest with yourself and others that you're a racist, instead of hiding behind flawed pseudoscience interpretations.

You're the one picking arbitrary social distinctions and pretending they're immutable natural ones. Why is race mixing different from hair colour or religious mixing?

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by Hugsbox »

fragmede wrote: post #97
majorbugger wrote: post #88

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Nothing, because the question makes no sense.

You put "experiences" in quotes for a reason. It implies that there's a different word you'd use.

No, it would imply that "experiences" is fundamentally not a word that applies to LLMs. It does not in any way suggest there's some alternative word to be used there.
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