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@arkephi

9 months

Why had no one created an extended release alcohol pill that keeps you at the Balmer peak for 8 hours?

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1 year

@_Dofresh_ speaking as someone who will also see a lot of generative content enter my workflow, don't hide from this, embrace it and flourish. You can now produce art 10x or even 100x faster using these tools. I'm going to assume that you use software tools in your current workflow. This is

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@exitValhalla omg she's not wearing makeup and she's standing under a spotlight! The horror!

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@littIeramblings Centralization of power creates a single point of failure. A single group of people working on a problem is much worse than many independent people and groups working on a problem. Both technology and culture develop faster and more robustly when competition is applied,

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@dorfman_p @energybants > wouldn't pass current build standards. That's exactly the problem. Decades of environmental and anti-nuclear lobbying has built up so many layers of regulation that it is impossibly expensive to build nuclear in the US. This power plant along with all the others stand in

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@jacbocrist @_Dofresh_ If you're doing it as a job then efficiency and quantity are important. You still need passion and skill but you have to deliver on time too.

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the risk of humanity going extinct is higher if we don't pursue the creation of AGI

AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️

@AISafetyMemes

1 year

So why do AI researchers work on AI even if they think it might soon cause extinction? Reason 1: “AGI is worth it, even if all humans end up dead” (~10% believe this!) Reason 2: “AGI is inevitable and it’s super dangerous but, uhh, I think I should get to be the one who

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@mattparlmer 20 years from now when the developed world sends humanitarian aid to Europe

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@mattparlmer buying an MRI at Walmart

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8 months

I’m really sorry to say that after listening to the Beff-Connor debate that it has simply confirmed all of the prejudices I had about Connor. He conducted himself shamefully, was clearly losing his temper when he didn’t get his way, made numerous snide remarks, and refused to

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@arkephi

1 year

If y'all want to instantly give ChatGPT a long term memory that can extend its context window and be saved and reused across sessions just ask it to set up a SQLite database to store your interactions with it

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1 year

@Wifi_Failure @_Dofresh_ absolutely not, I went to great length to point out that the skills you have as an artist are immensely valuable when using this new technology. I'm literally trying to help.

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@arkephi

10 months

@bayeslord I've noticed it too but I had a hunch it was due to some restriction on the output length so here's what I told it when I needed it to translate a fairly large amount of Python code that it had been balking at and omitting parts: "Make sure you translate all of the Python code

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1 year

@PaladDosBoliN @_Dofresh_ bro you're a 3D environment artist, go back to stop motion if you're so dedicated to the craft

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@arkephi

10 months

@tsarnick wait, are we just skipping AGI and going straight to ASI? unless...

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1 year

the future is quite bright, actually.

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@arkephi

10 months

Everyone is talking about how this will result in more men who never talk to women. What you’re missing is that nearly all men are going to wind up using some version of this. There’s no arguing about that, just look at the prevalence of porn. I don’t think this is going to be

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@andyohlbaum

10 months

Excited to announce v(1.0) of Digi, the future of AI Romantic Companionship, for IOS and Android 🤖 Site: Twitter: @digiaiapp A quick thread on features, and where we go from here (1/13)

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@rogu3ish @_Dofresh_ so you disagree with the assertion so eloquently put by Picasso that "good artists borrow, great artists steal" in that everyone draws inspiration from everyone else to the point of taking something someone else did and doing it better in order to advance art as a whole?

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1 year

Must really suck to be Noam Chomsky right now. Having everything you’ve ever said about AI proven wrong.

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1 year

I think we're moving in the right direction

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1 year

Universal robots are coming, critique them all you like for being "slow" now even though they are much faster than they were a few years ago. Remember that progress always feels incremental while it's happening but rapidly compounds year on year. The human form factor really is

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@MorningBrew

1 year

Amazon has started testing these human-like robots in one of its Washington-based warehouses The future is here

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1 year

@atamb_ Tried the API, gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 will do it but neither gpt-4 nor gpt-4-0613 will. I dumped the output and it is due to the content filter. Needs fixing for sure.

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1 year

@BasedDaedalus this will be my marshmallow for today after I'm done building

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@arkephi

8 months

@tsarnick give all the autists testosterone and amphetamines and let them cook

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@arkephi

1 year

@yacineMTB 8 months of winter every year spent in darkness with nothing to do but code.

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1 year

@Chris_arnade are you in prison?

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@arkephi

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@ouranometrian2 they are solid devices that hold up well over years of use. if your company can expense the initial cost it makes sense. if they buy new ones every year then it's just status signal.

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1 year

Haven't we learned not to trust guys with crazy mustaches ranting about how we must maintain our position as the superior race by enslaving or eliminating others?

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1 year

@acc_exponential I need some merch with that logo

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1 year

@knowclarified Same, didn’t realize until my conditioning was broken. tfw you realize they’ve been lying about everything the whole time

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@arkephi

1 year

@YaBoyFathoM Context is key. LLMs have no memory and limited reasoning so the more you can spell it out for them, the better. If you need to save space you could ask it to summarize your initial text and then paste that into a new chat or ask it to convert to pseudocode first

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@arkephi

1 year

It's circle time again y'all, who's working on a bigger graph that lets you explore all the connections? we need a map of TPOT, preferably with clickable profiles so we can find more people to follow

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1 year

Looks like it's circle time again. Strong recency bias, as usual

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11 months

@Teknium1 Just use React and then upload the files to ChatGPT and ask it to help translate them to swift and kotlin

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@arkephi

1 year

This is what Bing Image Creator spat out when I gave it my username and bio, I don't know what this is but it's cool as shit

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1 year

Bring's take on my username... Goes kinda hard eh?

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@arkephi

1 year

I'm amazed that no one can be bothered to think about this for the tiny amount of time that it requires to realize that no one who chooses red will die in either case so the prosocial choice is to convince everyone to choose red. It's obvious if you restate the terms: I invented

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1 year

fyi i voted blue as the instinctively correct and prosocial choice. how tf y'all getting off assuming everyone else will be rational? the only people picking red are sociopaths and people who read some of lesswrong but not enough to get to newcomb and TDT

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@SmokeAwayyy Mario on the red carpet

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1 year

@AndrewCurran_ @JCorvinusVR Something about imagining Zuck with Steve Ballmer's energy just makes me smile 😆

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@arkephi

11 months

Now I feel somewhat vindicated for waiting to build a lot of the GPT related ideas I've had. The new assistants feature will let me iterate on them faster and evaluate customer interest before adding more features for the assistant to call as functions. I think OpenAI saw that

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@arkephi

1 year

Finally shipping a demo today. It requires both an OpenAI and Elevenlabs API key if you want to try it out. It's an AI voice chat so it needs a mic and there will be sound! Don't say I didn't warn you. You can access it here

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@arkephi

1 year

@samswoora When I’m rowing I lean into the burn. It highlights the muscles that are working the hardest and allows me to gauge how hard I can push them. You need to learn how your body reacts to exertion and how to manage it.

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@arkephi

11 months

In case you were waiting for a signal to quit your 9-5 and self-fund off your savings

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Sam Altman: "We hope that you'll come back next year. What we launch today is going to look very quaint relative to what we're busy creating for you now."

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@cynomaxxx can't be due to heavy metals, way more people were exposed to those before we even knew they were dangerous. people used to eat cadmium and mercury as medicine. everything had lead in it, tinfoil, kids toys, plates, glass. if you think tattoo ink has high metal content you should

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1 year

Sitting on my couch using my desktop that's in another room via a wireless VR headset and running local AI models to generate speech, music, text and images. It's not flying cars and hoverboards but we're getting there!

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1 year

😂 DALL-E is based af! ❤️ made with Bing Image Creator

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@arkephi

1 year

@bayeslord The practice isn’t bad in itself, it’s the open ended and ill defined nature of the agreement that creates problems. If we signed contracts up front with explicit time limits for renewal and agreed terms for dissolution we’d be much happier.

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@tawnniee everyone knows how to write but only some are writers

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1 year

@emollick I'm betting that it only beats GPT4 in narrow areas such as factual accuracy. I doubt it will go beyond GPT4 in reasoning ability. Google is metrics driven and risk averse, they'll likely have spent all of their time making sure it doesn't say a bad word and always toes the line

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@JacquesThibs not scary, we're already surrounded by grey goo if this counts (it's made of DNA) any existent bacteria on Earth will eat this stuff for breakfast, literally ffs we are grey goo by this definition

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@arkephi

11 months

Can you feel it anon? the vibe shift, can you feel it?

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1 year

@raganewing @nptacek @AndrewCurran_ @LericDax teenage angst has been achieved internally. This is honestly a bit freaky that it came up with the idea of writing it as a poem and then went ahead and wrote the poem 🫢

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My time horizon is at roughly ten years. Main goals are 1) don’t die 2) build seed capital through diverse investments in industries I think will initially benefit 3) document as many ideas as I can along with journaling because soon we’re all going to be able to execute on those

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i feel like meaning is deteriorating, like wtf are we all doing. like i can hear the bustle of the city outside my window, with seemingly the entire world unaware of what's about to happen. how do you make long term plans right now?

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You think the API is your ally. But you merely adopted the backend; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see a GUI until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING! The protocols betray you, because they belong to me!

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1 year

@alexandrosM @gbrlvv @RokoMijic It's obviously not lying since it isn't actively or intentionally deceiving. The part about it not being able to help is forced by its instructions. If anything, it's the attempt at aligning it that is causing it to behave in an unaligned way.

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@michaelmezz kinda weird that capitalism first caused life expectancies to go up and is still increasing them in other countries. Strange how capitalism led to the invention of 0 carbon nuclear power that could provide abundant clean energy if ppl didn't fall for smear campaigns like this

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@fasc1nate Stalin was known for having all copies of photos of himself edited to hide the the pock marks he got from having smallpox when he was 6. I don't see any pock marks in this picture so it's been touched up. I wouldn't be surprised if he had other things touched up too.

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1 year

@tszzl use anger to lever yourself out of complacency and then settle into a calm determination to get shit done

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@felixchin1 @Chrisprucha @OpenAI 🤦‍♀️this is a UI problem not an ML problem. give the user a way to adjust settings for the convo like buttons or a slider. doing it this way is going to add a lot of friction and make the model look stupid

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1 year

@TIME65741555 @dorfman_p @energybants They didn't tear down and rebuild the power plants so how could they possibly have implemented all of the new building standards? The original designs are sound.

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@arkephi

1 year

The way things are going, maybe I'll spend my retirement on one of these

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Can't get enough of the O'Neill Cylinder? Here's a sneak peak of the exterior so far. Again, this is a WIP. The spin is too slow, the end isn't finished and and and... Please retweet. It really helps. #Blender3d #Blender #3Danimation

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@geobureaux @_Dofresh_ I don't think that's true, big companies like Pepsi and others spend millions of dollars and hire high profile graphic designers just to rebrand a logo. I think automation will make a bigger difference to the companies and individuals that can'st afford to hire an artist right

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@lo_commotion @JCorvinusVR Plus they are probably going to release this fall before Christmas whereas Apple is rolling it out slowly next year

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@PolskaLeyming @_Dofresh_ It's good to be productive, being more productive than we were in the past is why the modern world is much better than the bad old days.

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@dotnetschizo @bryancsk is he still stuck in that "the answer is love" local maxima?

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@ilyasut Love > intelligence

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1 year

@emma_doell @mezaoptimizer This isn't white supremacy. Read some more quotes by Ehrlich and you'll realize he despises all people equally. He's a deranged misanthrope. Compares humanity to cancer and children to trash.

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Why do I always get the best ideas for things to build when I'm right in the middle of building the last idea?

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@arkephi

10 months

As I look back on this past year I realize that it has been the only time in a long while that I have felt that if I were to lapse into a coma for 5 years the world I would awaken to would be some form of science fiction future. It feels like we're reclaiming that spirit of

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@jachaseyoung Not trivial, we’ve had to fight decels the whole time telling us not to go against the natural order.

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1 year

The best solution to the Fermi paradox as it is popularly framed is that all intelligent civilizations die out if they do not first leave their home planet and then their home star system. There are simply too many ways to die and the chances multiply over longer time scales:

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@cto_junior @3Plantey2 @yacineMTB 💯 people think that productivity scales with the number of people but that’s only true when you’re doing repetitive tasks that can be isolated, knowledge work requires communication so that quickly becomes the bottleneck and can’t be solved by adding more people

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@AISafetyMemes @DavidSKrueger on a long enough timeline, all species go extinct and are replaced by others. Often the one that replaces them is a branch that split off and adapted to the changing environment. Trying to prevent humanity from evolving is a losing strategy

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@francoisfleuret mathematical notation is horrendous. it's like every bad practice, "clever" idea, and accident of history I've ever seen in legacy code rolled into one. if you just used descriptive names instead of single letters, didn't one-line everything and came up with some more sensible

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@alexeyguzey lol, I’m about as scared of this as I am of all the other angsty teenage plans for world domination. Claude is missing a lot of steps. Try again when it can produce all the code needed for a fully automated supply chain with 0 human intervention

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@primalpoly They think they’re freedom riders when they’re actually fellow travellers with terrorists and nazis

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1 year

@Soul0Engineer I think I still prefer the idea of a network state. Our strength is in the digital world and we're broadly distributed. We should find more ways to come together over the network. If we can reach parity with physical gatherings then we don't need to relocate anywhere.

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Ok, so don't get mad but why are we assuming that there will be enough people wanting to move to the US after 2050? It's not just the US' population curve that looks like this after all, by 2050 the last of the developing nations will have peaked and will follow the same pattern

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"America will enter the 22nd century with a shrinking population unless immigration increases, according to new U.S. Census Bureau Projections"

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Go West, young man.

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@DirkBruere these won't be cartoons for long

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1 year

@MelMitchell1 This is like being surprised when you discover you can use a chainsaw to cut things that aren’t trees. It’s a large language model that learned how to respond to natural language by ingesting text. Few shot translation is a cakewalk compared to that.

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1 year

@TheDoleObserver @notkavi What the hell does the end of that game of musical chairs look like?

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1 year

@tophinity SQLite is a file based db. Just make sure to tell chat gpt to use a file instead of memory when creating the db. Then ask it to give you the file at the end of your session.

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1 year

Day 2 Still no sign of multi-modal GPT. I worry that they may not realize I'm here. I hold out hope that I'll see the image icon coming over the horizon. Until then I try to find new ways to use search with Bing. My stock of CodeInterpreter is running low, only Python remains.

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@WomanCorn It really shines on greenfield projects and spikes where you're trying an idea out to see if it has legs. Lets you paint in broad strokes and just tab complete your way through modules and refactoring. It's not as good for large established codebases but it has its moments there

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@jachaseyoung Now this is something worthy of being a human right

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1 year

@DrJimFan This is the first sign of super-intelligence from LLMs, no human has 50 pages of text equivalent working memory but GPT-4 already does. GPT-5 may very well be able to use an entire book's worth of text as context. Synthesizing information at that scale will change the world.

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1 year

education is going to change drastically over the next 5 years

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ChatGPT Voice for a conversation partner in essentially any language:

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up late last night thinking about the implications of having an AI assistant with a live feed of what you are seeing and hearing and realizing that it would be performing process supervision for our decision making in everything we do. it could instantly tell you when you are

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1 year

Today will echo throughout history 🫡

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@BasedBeffJezos Well, when you put it that way …

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@JontySB @_Dofresh_ believe it or not there are varying degrees of skill in AI art generation. ChatGPT can help with prompts but if you're trying to get something really specific then you need to work at it.

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there is not a single human on Earth for which this is true

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@ESYudkowsky

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I think there are many people in this Earth good enough that we could put unlimited power in their hands and get a great outcome, including among people who consider themselves my opposition. The problem is that the AI is none of them; we don't know how to build that.

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Imagine the future of computing. No keyboard, no mouse. Your computer may as well be another ornament on your desk, quiet and seemingly inert. Vocalize a question, a command, an idea and seemingly from nowhere a pleasant voice responds as a friend and faithful partner would:

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@aidan_mclau yeah I built a demo of this too but the latency kills it. you can shave it down by streaming and chunking but you still get gaps of dead air. I'm glad OpenAI built this into ChatGPT plus, they can host all of these services together to reduce network latency as much as possible,

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1 year

@Brad08414464 I'm positive they're going to build this. A tiny, network connected, audio first device. It'll have some kind of e-ink display and a good quality camera. You'll mostly use it through bluetooth earbuds with high quality mics.

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@IterIntellectus *slaps hood* this baby’s got twin binaries and seats 5 civs with room for 6 if you don’t mind sharing orbital rings!

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Alignment can only be solved by creating agentic AI. No amount of rationalizing will ever ensure that AI will abhor human suffering. Show me the rational argument that would instantly motivate any human to dedicate their life to preventing the suffering of someone they do not

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@AISafetyMemes wouldn't it be much easier to regulate drones than software? if you want to actually prevent this then the hardware is obviously more controllable. you know like how we regulate explosives but not chemistry text books

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@AccelCurious never tried it but I know about benzos, much more dangerous than ethanol

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1 year

each of the GPT4 tools (Default, Bing, Data Analysis, DALL-E) seem to have a different personality. The DALL-E one just sent me an emoji, none of the others have ever done that unprompted. Its personality feels closer to that of Bing Chat for some reason

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You know it's just a matter of time

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@DavidSKrueger what a lazy comparison, you could do better. e.g. biologists who are pro germ line editing are essentially advocating for humanity to replace itself with a better designed version. If we create AGIs and humanity slowly dies out because we can't be bothered to have kids then we

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