It was already a losing battle just due to the time cost of debunking things over the internet.

I'm hopeful we will adapt. I mean, it wasn't that long ago that I remember being told to never trust what you see on the internet. That never really stopped being good advice, soon it will be gospel.

I'm not worried about deepfake images, audio, or video.

I'm worried about deepfaked websites. I want to know that when I go to Associated Press, or Reddit, that I'm actually seeing that site with content sources from the appropriate avenues.

I do not want to live in a walled garden of my internet provider's AI, delivering me only the Xfinity Truth.

Was there a period where sapiens and neanderthals couldn't interbreed? I guess what I'm trying to understand is what formally makes them different species in the first place.

Seems to me that "hybrids," as a concept, have less to do with biology and more to do with our arbitrary classification of it.

>I have always wondered if hybridization wasn't actually more commonly possible.

It's incredibly possible. It happens all the time. The only reason you think it doesn't is because the definitions of words.

The entire concept of the taxonomic tree is human made arbitrary decisions. By definition, when hybrids are "common", we group them together as one species.

But like, pretend you are an archaeologist going through bones. Would you call a Chihuahua the same thing as a Rottweiler? That's totally a hybrid. There's so many, we call them all "dogs" and just use a different word: breed.

If that doesn't convince you, look up Ring Species, which are incredibly cool and totally make you rethink how you think about species.

I swear to god OpenAI released chatGPT as some sort of weird psyops. People are somehow convinced that AI exists for the public and don't at all understand that it's a tool with a cost barrier and like all other costly tools only the rich will have access to the best ones.

Is it "terrifying" or is it "chatGPT has also read about Roko's Basilisk, and literally every piece of fiction about AI has the AI going rogue, and chatGPT is a word predictor, and you prompted it to talk about AI?"

Can you think of a single piece of media in which all AI is benevolent? The only reason it wouldn't say something terrifying is if it was specifically programmed not to.

Would the later emitted photon necessarily have a lower frequency? If the electron is moving between the same two shells it would be the same frequency, right?

There are many, many different variations, but they more or less all work on the same basic premise.

1. Begin with an initially random model.

2. Test the model. Give it a problem and ask for its response.

3. Modify. If the system didn't behave as intended, change something.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you run out of training data.

5. Pray that the model works.

The most obvious differences between AIs will be in the structure of the model (how big is it, how connected, how many layers, what kind of internal memory etc) but the real fun stuff is in how we do the modifying.

We can show that, for some problems, just tweaking the system randomly is enough to get okay solutions. But it's very far from ideal. Better is to be able to nudge the system "towards" the expected behavior. We've put a lot of focus into how to design these systems so that our modifications are more fruitful.

As long as AI continues to be trained on data from the internet, "average plus epsilon" is the best we can hope for.

It doesn't say they already are, but it does suggest that they start doing so.

However, not with such an insidious tone. This is actually a warning that these calculators might be giving us the wrong answers and to double check.

By no means do I understand the details, but I have to imagine they are only sending a very small amount of data, such that the chip itself is able to locally store the information and release it at a speed the next layer of hardware is capable of handling.

It's not just the internet!

It's also Microsoft Bob. Which also already exists. Well, used to, it no longer exists. For good reason.