Uncanny Valleys

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The world can't take a joke

Bad news for all humans

Flooding the zone and devaluing human creativity

That's debatable. 😏

High speed computing interface, conversing with Einstein at the speed of your brain. Also, immortality.

Scientists digitize fly brain, first step to immortality:

Digital immortality will reshape societal norms around life, death, wealth, and legacy. Are digital copies of living beings “alive,” and what rights should they have, if any?

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If you're not using AI in your job, you're already falling behind.

Yes, of course. If you're not already using AI in your job, you're falling behind.

If BlueSky has 20 million users, why does it always feel empty, like an abandoned shopping mall?

Amazon invests billions in ChatGPT rival:

Creating a machine smart as a human is a complex task that requires lots of money. So it’s good news Amazon is investing billions in AI, because that’s what it’s going to take for this AI moonshot to become reality.

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Agree! And who defines purity?

Giving up control is the first step toward losing control

This art is worth much more than that spoiled fruit still life

IRS will use AI to spot tax fraud. AI is the perfect tool to ensure compliance across all sorts of situations.

Human lawyers will need AI to verify the work of AI lawyers

From creative positions to supervisory roles

Out of nowhere, AI tells human to die:

If we think it’s bad for AI to threaten humans mistakenly, just wait until AI is threatening humans deliberately...

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Teaching AI how to think (AI-generated image)

AI Learning May Have Hit a Wall:

For both biological and synthetic life, cognition is primarily a factor of processor power and size. This key fact is why synthetic superintelligence backed by the cloud will ultimately reign on Earth (Uncanny Valleys, page 242).

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High creepy factor

Can the world even agree on a yardstick to measure AGI?

Mesmerizing

I'd like to see this tech applied to making audiobooks and podcasts. And talking with people on the phone, that's the worst.

Be the person your AI thinks you are 😏

Each post contains:
> AI-generated photo (Microsoft Bing Image Creator*)
> Executive Summary
> Implications for Humans
> Implications for AI
> Opinion from AI (ChatGPT*°)
> Opinion of Uncanny Valleys author (Timm Martin)
* unless otherwise specified
° AI opinion may be edited for length and clarity

This Bluesky account discusses important news, events, and issues regarding artificial intelligence and its effect on humans and humanity.

North Korea to mass produce self-detonating explosive drones:

Drones are relatively inexpensive, effective in swarms, and provide asymmetric advantages against technologically superior forces.

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OpenAI defeats copyright lawsuit over AI training:

If AI developers legally purchased one copy of every piece of content they used to train their AI, would that be adequate compensation for content creators?

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Ex-Google leader says AI will write own code in 5 years:

Humans are the biggest impediment to AI development, between our rules and restrictions and lesser intelligence.

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