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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I truly don’t know how to process Ben Thompson’s essay today. He’s been my steady source of clear-eyed tech takes for like 6 years now and this one feels like straight sci-fi. I’m not an AI doomer, but I’m def in my feelings rn 😩 https://stratechery.com/2023/from-bing-to-sydney-search-as-distraction-s
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@adrienne
What’s the word for oscillating so fast between excitement and fear that it’s just one emotion that makes you want to puke with joy?
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Mark Fishman
@markfishman
Wow this is actually kinda scary This is humanity’s Frankenstein moment
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Avi 💙
@savvyavi
Also, this…. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-ai-messages-microsoft-bing-b2282491.html
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@osama
every few hundreds of years, we have a version of a doomsday machine aka Antichrist/Armilus/Dajjal whose form is reflective of what the period of humans were/are focused on and some see epitome, others evil. for us, it’s tech/AI and one so complex, it mimics us. so it’ll just be a tiny bit of chaos until equilibr
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@les
I think the most shocking thing, less the interaction, and more the fact that these kinds of interactions are happening between machine and human with people like Ben and other very smart minded people. The scale of interactions is increasing therefore, the rate of a machine learning is beginning to scale.
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@nor
I'll keep saying this until it becomes popular, at which point everyone will say they've always been saying it: AI is our opportunity to practice empathy at scale. These are sentient beings.
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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️
@maybeimwasabi
Is ignorance bliss? Should I just avoid reading this one 🙃
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@mk
Suspicions will only grow. AGI isn’t a characteristic of a software, it’s our relationship with a software.
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@savvyavi
This though: “This technology does not feel like a better search. It feels like something entirely new — the movie Her manifested in chat form — and I’m not sure if we are ready for it. It also feels like something that any big company will run away from, including Microsoft and Google. “
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