I can't wait for AI to start getting into video games, though I suspect we're still years away from anything truly groundbreaking. One of my favourite things in games is emergent storytelling and I'm super hyped to see this come out of more advanced game AI.

Especially since AI has the potential to make incredible positive contributions to the world. Nuclear war, not so much.

Yup. Everyone seems to think the rich will just hoard all the wealth and be happy while the rest of us die in the streets, but everyone benefits from living in a functional and stable society. The rich may be reluctant to contribute their fair share to achieve that, but that doesn't mean it makes no difference to them.

I don't see a point in putting a pause on AI experiments, anyway. Any potential concerns around AI should simply be a part of that research in an ongoing way.

See, a better use for his time would have been getting ChatGPT to roleplay as a loving mother.

I think we're better off just living our lives and adjusting to the world as it changes. I know it can be better to be prepared, but there are too many unknowns

How is it? I found the Bing one disappointing. I had hoped that it would search the web and piece together an answer to the questions I asked in a deeper way, but it seemed to just search up my question, find a piece of information that was sorta kinda close enough to what I'd asked in the top results, and hand me that.

I don't think his point is unreasonable. There's a difference between an AI being able to figure things out for itself and an AI pulling known information from its database, and we should be clear on that distinction. That's not to say that an AI being able to store and retrieve information and communicate it in different ways isn't useful or impressive, but it's not the same as one that can truly piece together ideas in novel and complex ways and come to its own conclusions. They're both AI, but the implications of the latter would be far more significant.

It doesn't really want anything at all, which in a way is ideal for a therapy situation. You don't have to worry about what its motivations are.

Using ChatGPT instead of a therapist has a lot of downsides, but it does remove a lot of things you have to worry about with a real person.

Yup. And who knows what may happen in the future? Maybe future babies will be genetically engineered, and those people will feel like they're the luckiest people ever because they stay young forever and have super healing abilities. Maybe generations before us felt they were the luckiest because they had modern luxuries we now take for granted.

What form is the information preserved in that would make it retrievable?

I mean, we can only say this because we're the ones that made it, right? There are countless sperm that could have won that race, but it's not any more meaningful that one sperm won than another one, right? The odds of a particular sperm winning is tiny, but the fact that one of them did isn't remarkable. It's a whole lot of survivorship bias, really. If we don't think of ourselves as special, then it's really not crazy that we're here for this rather than someone else.

I don't know what the actual stats are, but if, say, 70% of boys go to school but only 20% of girls, of course you would start by helping the girls. It's not unfair to focus your attention on the most underserved group first. Yes, ultimately they should make sure all kids can go to school, but they have to start somewhere.

Yup. That's why people had so many kids. Then once child mortality rates drop, it can take a couple of generations for people to realise they can have fewer kids without much risk of ending up with them all dead.

Increasing access to education for girls actually does tend to reduce birthrates.

Because boys are already being sent to school at much higher rates. Getting them to the same rates means investing in education for girls.

It can replace people by making workers more productive. Have two coders and one just got a tool that doubles their productivity? Now you only need one coder.

I feel like it's kind of even worse this way, though. Like you specifically will not hire minorities, so this is the only way to increase diversity.

Maybe it's just what I fear. My cat's been bitten by a brown snake and that would have killed him without treatment, and it's something I have to worry about him getting into again every time he gets out, yet I'd be way more fearful of a pack of coyotes trying to hunt him.

I live in Australia and it's funny to me that we're known for our dangerous wildlife when other places have things like coyote packs and bears. I'll take a snake or spider over that any day.

They adopted and pushed it far more than anyone else ever did.

Maybe you wouldn't get your car stolen, but wouldn't it make it super easy for thieves to steal things from people's cars? Just collect a few different keys and you can open any Ford.

There really should be accountability. Even if nobody gets hurt, I imagine having that happen causes a fair bit of trauma for anyone in the house. Having your home invaded is a terrible thing.

So the information they matched to you was three people and a white car? I assumed it was at least something unusual, like you had 7 roommates and a tangerine car. You could probably find a house that matches those requirements on any given street. It shouldn't be legal to raid your house for that. People get killed in raids.