A report in Politico details a TED talk in Vancouver last month
Oh so it's just rambling musings of some self-important CEO rather than any actual declaration of intent.
There are some good TED talks but a lot of them are just hot air.
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I feel like the bar is extremely low for TED talks these days. But maybe it has just changed to a financial one instead of an intellectual one.
We could be granting everyone in the world a high standard of living but instead we're going to charge them to self-induce early onset neurodegenerative disease.
The worst parts of Severance + Pluribus
If by "for a while" you mean "until I'm dead" . . then yea, sure. Any other definition . . no chance in hell.
The actual article is much more informative than a rando's ramblings.
It's still just a report on things that Sam Altman and his ilk says, it has a much as much validity as Elon Musk claiming that we're going to have cities on Mars by the end of next year. I've never been able to decide if these idiots actually believe the things they are spouting or if they're just trying to get more investment but either way it's not worth paying any actual attention to them.
Assuming we're even on the right path towards superhuman AI (personally I can't see large language models actually leading anywhere) we're certainly only at the start of that journey, it's pointless to muse about what the end would look like because we have no idea what kind of technology will have by the end, it could be a century or more from now.
Regardless the people deciding on that technology will be scientists not rich CEOs with over inflated salaries who can barely wire up a light switch, let alone design a brain implant.
These people need to be stopped. Seriously.
Honestly they just say things. If you spend 30 seconds thinking about it it's pretty obvious that no one's going to get a brain implant. It's a brain implant, it's not something you casually decide on a whim.
Also who's doing it, the world isn't exactly a wash with neurosurgeons let alone who would just eager to risk a potential lawsuit carrying out unnecessary brain surgery. Unless the plan is to get robots to do that, but surely we would need the robots before we start talking about the brain chips.
I literally prefer human extinction.
100% verified.
Just what everyone needs, the Internet of things wired into their brain. No problems with that ever. No sir. /s
Surely that's why they pushed for IPv6!
No, I don't think I will
Just like we all ran out and bought 3D TVs. Right? And Meta smart glasses. Any day now!
The smart glasses are selling really well tho. Creeps and people wanting to record everything I guess
Not if we 1- Forcefully remove 2- Smash to bits every smart glass we see.
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Over my dead body.
Also, this is laughable:
We’re on the cusp of the next major transition, the merger of humans and AI.
These guys don't even have true AI yet, just a text predictor on steroids that frequently hallucinates and gets things wrong.
It's because they're in so much debt they need to run forward to outrun it by... Getting into even more debt on the basis that this time it will payoff
The cope is really deep in the tech sector. Way too many imbeciles who think they're geniuses and too much VC to throw around.
Always been this way, no? Sometimes, though, the imbeciles hire very competent people
It's much worse now. Some of these people actually did impressive things earlier in the 21st century. Now they're 90% grifters
90% is very generous.
Well, yes, but there was also a lot of bullshit that we simply dont remember because it disappeared after the great purge that was the internet bubble pop
AI is incredible if you ask it about stuff you're not an expert on. Once you ask it those things you already have expert level knowledge on, especially nuanced questions, you'll start to see the issues. It won't be every question it gets wrong, but it's often enough to be an issue.
In other words, it’s all an illusion. It’s a ruse to get us to feed it our thoughts, so it can summarize our files and our queries, and it can feed us the responses it is told to feed us.
We already know it can do that since they’re placing fucking ads in it.
Sorry chooms, I won’t be chippin’ in.
Let me put a chip in my brain that will run software developed by the lowest paid intern using claude 7. I dont trust big corp to update my phone and car, there is zero chance i trust them with my brain.
No I wouldn't trust them with something like that. Too many times they get us hooked on some technology, only to pull the rug later and jack up the prices, or enshittify the service.
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AI CEO D. Scott Phoenix laid out a vision of a world in which the chipped enjoy so many advantages of the unchipped that you’ll be forced to comply.
I won't even verify my age online. He can shove my advantageous chip right up his ass.
forced to comply.
The language I'd expect from a villain in some fiction aimed at teenagers, not from a real person. This is so bizarre, and the amount of people ok with ceos saying those things is disturbing
I'm glad I learned that excessive convenience is a bad thing before this became the norm.
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The incredible, sci-fi point-&-click adventure game Technobabylon is about people who chose to install such "wetware" into their brains and people, like the protagonist, who refused it. It's good stuff.
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