"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms." -Daedalus, Deus Ex, produced 2000 by Ion Storm Austin.
What is with everyone just blindly accepting AI to do everything for them? i swear, we have become a primitive people that worship technology like the savages in old movies, shows and real life.
I do see a lot of benefits to be had for the average individual, but it's definitely going to be a challenge for a fair number of people to strike a fair balance between a useful tool and helpless, mindless dependency.
In this case scenario, I'm fairly certain that turning to AI like goes against the spirit and purpose of such religious pursuits and activities. And I say this as someone who is not religious or spiritual at all, while still understanding the intentions and meaning.
I'll tell you exactly who's doing the worshipping, it's lazy and opportunistic people who don't understand AI and are already angling for an AI takeover to either increase their profits by getting rid of humans or so they can simply steal other peoples' slightly edited work and pretend it was the AI that did it. It's a pattern that I've been noticing, the business end is obvious because they're trying to cut costs but people like this guy are just hoping they don't have to work anymore and just leave an AI running in their place while they go off on holiday.
I've got to tell you the security implications of this sort of attitude that people have towards AI are extremely serious and people aren't thinking about that side of things enough. Machine learning ( Which is what most of this AI is based off ) is nowhere near advanced as people make out which is why it falls on it's arse depending on what you try and get it to do.
I grew up as a tech nerd kid surrounded by computer stuff and parts and all the stupid pain in the ass to connect peripherals that were all the thing in the 90s. So it's safe to say I was in to that stuff. Today I often feel like a luddite. I'm sitting here with my watch that runs on springs and gears messaging on a low end smart phone about to get into a car that barely has a clock much less a touchscreen and you have to shift manually.
The thing is I have tech stuff, I've got Raspberry pis and a NAS and some cloud VMs. I'm still that tech kid. I just hate all this modern trendy tech. Never talked to AI either. I have tested it for some artwork but not extensively. That would be to replace skills I don't have.
People don't realize what they are doing interacting with this shit. Just entering a prompt into chatgpt is offering consent that has ramifications we cannot imagine and starts a ball rolling in one direction: down.
Find a collection of 18th century sermons and give one of those. Leave the entire congregation in tears from something their ancestors would have heard on a random Sunday.
I was more pointing out that programming the engine itself and choosing what to feed it are two distinct tasks that can be performed by completely unassociated individuals. You could theoretically have the AI itself be programmed by a far right extremist, but then a left wing type gets their hands on it and just feeds it exclusively left wing data sets to train it up, or vice versa.
"Sinners In the Hands of An Angry God", just about anything by Spurgeon, M'Gavin's sermons on sin (doubly so the Four Sins That Cry Out For Vengeance).
I've occasionally read some from this collection from Jonathan Edwards. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (who someone else mentioned) is good, but I also really like God's Awful Judgment in the Breaking and Withering of the Strong Rods of a Community.
“ChatGPT kicked out about a 15-minute service, like a shotgun sermon, an outline,” Cooper said. “It’s very clear that a human element is still needed. I had to fill out the service with additional prompts and add a couple prompts to the sermon to kind of beef it up.”
A god from the machine, literal Deus Ex Machina.
Of course this shit is coming from Austin.
"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms." -Daedalus, Deus Ex, produced 2000 by Ion Storm Austin.
What is with everyone just blindly accepting AI to do everything for them? i swear, we have become a primitive people that worship technology like the savages in old movies, shows and real life.
I do see a lot of benefits to be had for the average individual, but it's definitely going to be a challenge for a fair number of people to strike a fair balance between a useful tool and helpless, mindless dependency.
In this case scenario, I'm fairly certain that turning to AI like goes against the spirit and purpose of such religious pursuits and activities. And I say this as someone who is not religious or spiritual at all, while still understanding the intentions and meaning.
I'll tell you exactly who's doing the worshipping, it's lazy and opportunistic people who don't understand AI and are already angling for an AI takeover to either increase their profits by getting rid of humans or so they can simply steal other peoples' slightly edited work and pretend it was the AI that did it. It's a pattern that I've been noticing, the business end is obvious because they're trying to cut costs but people like this guy are just hoping they don't have to work anymore and just leave an AI running in their place while they go off on holiday.
I've got to tell you the security implications of this sort of attitude that people have towards AI are extremely serious and people aren't thinking about that side of things enough. Machine learning ( Which is what most of this AI is based off ) is nowhere near advanced as people make out which is why it falls on it's arse depending on what you try and get it to do.
I grew up as a tech nerd kid surrounded by computer stuff and parts and all the stupid pain in the ass to connect peripherals that were all the thing in the 90s. So it's safe to say I was in to that stuff. Today I often feel like a luddite. I'm sitting here with my watch that runs on springs and gears messaging on a low end smart phone about to get into a car that barely has a clock much less a touchscreen and you have to shift manually.
The thing is I have tech stuff, I've got Raspberry pis and a NAS and some cloud VMs. I'm still that tech kid. I just hate all this modern trendy tech. Never talked to AI either. I have tested it for some artwork but not extensively. That would be to replace skills I don't have.
I literally make my living working with computers as a sysadmin and I am ready to lead the Butlerian Jihad myself.
People don't realize what they are doing interacting with this shit. Just entering a prompt into chatgpt is offering consent that has ramifications we cannot imagine and starts a ball rolling in one direction: down.
The blob people from Wall-E.
Find a collection of 18th century sermons and give one of those. Leave the entire congregation in tears from something their ancestors would have heard on a random Sunday.
The Ai is programmed by leftists
Trained on leftist data, but it's a distinction without a difference.
Yes, because leftists are also trained on leftist data. Usually by college professors.
I was more pointing out that programming the engine itself and choosing what to feed it are two distinct tasks that can be performed by completely unassociated individuals. You could theoretically have the AI itself be programmed by a far right extremist, but then a left wing type gets their hands on it and just feeds it exclusively left wing data sets to train it up, or vice versa.
Is there one you know of off-hand? I'd love to give one a read.
"Sinners In the Hands of An Angry God", just about anything by Spurgeon, M'Gavin's sermons on sin (doubly so the Four Sins That Cry Out For Vengeance).
I've occasionally read some from this collection from Jonathan Edwards. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (who someone else mentioned) is good, but I also really like God's Awful Judgment in the Breaking and Withering of the Strong Rods of a Community.
What a lazy fuck.
Butlerian Jihad when?
If they had to use CharGPT, then they weren't good at it anyway.
Praise the Omnissiah!