See, this kind of use comes from a complete misunderstanding of what the current AI does, like I was talking about. If you feed an original script to ChatGPT and ask it to review/analyze it for you, what’s it going to do? It’s a new, original script, so it’s not going to find any existing analysis of it in its training data. So it’s going to try to compare it to other subjects that are close, and who the hell knows how it’s going to determine what’s close and what isn’t. And then it’s going to create some amalgam of analyses that sounds like how a human writes when analyzing an original script, and that analysis may or may not have connections to the actual script fed into it. It’s a completely insane thing to be asking ChatGPT to do, because it’s just not equipped to do that task. But it’s not going to tell you that it’s not equipped to do it.
Meta has developed plans to create a new artificial intelligence research lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,” according to reporting from The New York Times. The social media giant chose 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, founder and CEO of Scale AI, to join the new lab as part of a broader reorganization of Meta’s AI efforts under CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
One day, we’ll all be chatting with a superintelligent AI from inside our metaverse home… 
Holy bad idea, Batman!
How stupid are investors that this kind of escalation would work? When they finally realize that Musk has no idea how to build a Mars colony, can he just declare that he’s going to build an Alpha Centauri colony and start the whole cycle over again? God, capitalism is pathetic.
I hope all these dumb ass “investments” in AI or “superintelligence” or HAL or whatever runs a shit load of these companies straight into the ground for ever.
That’s pretty much a dead cert, much like the “financial crisis” the money zapped into non-existence won’t make any difference to the billionaires. For me the inevitability of an AI recession isn’t the question but rather what the recovery will look like? What jobs will return and which will not leaving us with holes in society and our ability to do useful things? Will there be useful infrastructure left behind like after the dot bomb? (Ans: don’t think so unfortunately). Will the absence of that capital leave us unable to build back and better? Will our governments have learned from their Long Recession that their “austerity” brought about? Will they leave the wealthy gamblers out of pocket rather than make the wealthiest ne’er do wells whole again at our expense? I’m currently dealing with what looks like a collapse in services and support in digital systems I pay for (they break, work less well than before, cost more, have no local or even UK based support etc.) while the CEOs are in the FT talking about how much they are investing in “AI”. Dude, you run a legal information service. It is literally not allowed to use these services you are spending all your money on in court. Will we get back working services after they have hollowed them out? Will they have succeeded in making “sort of like the kind of thing I was looking for if you squint up your eyes until it’s blurry” acceptable? Can we fix it?
But a lot of money being lost is not a thing I wonder about.
Google Gemini creates on-the-spot podcasts.
It’s an amazingly naturalistic demonstration of a fake conversation.
The male AI voice, to me, sounds like it was “trained” to sound like Dan Friesen from Knowledge Fight.
Spot on… 
I’m so sick of this stupid cycle that just dumps ever more suffering on the people who are the least responsible for it.
This actually explains a weird experience I had earlier today… a video popped up in my feed that claimed to be explaining Eric Weinstein’s “Geometric Unity” theory (his “theory of everything” that some people still take seriously, even though it was released on an April 1st, states within the paper that it is for entertainment only, uses mathematical operators that don’t exist and aren’t defined, and refers to other documentation that he supposedly lost long before the paper was written but would have explained away all the issues, honest)
The video was just a coat of arms, with audio of these two voices just chatting back and forth about this thing and taking it absolutely seriously and trying to be convincing about it with things like “just imagine that everything you know about the world is wrong”. It was just so bizarre, I ended up moving on after a minute or so. The video didn’t even show up in my Youtube history, and I’ve been unsuccessful searching for it, but I’m pretty sure it was this exact thing.
Oh boy. This will be interesting. Up until now, it has been mostly small, independent artists and creators suing big tech companies over AI. This is like . . . I dunno, David was trying to kill Goliath with tiny grains of sand while Goliath laughed at him, and suddenly the Hulk shows up and says, “Puny Goliath!” (I know I’ve really butchered this metaphor beyond all reason, but that seems kind of appropriate given the subject)
A way I’ve seen it put is that Disney is an elder power that was there when the dark magic of copyright law was being written.
Well they definitely weren’t there when it was written, but they absolutely were financing the rewrites.
If you do find that video again, be sure to post it. It sounds fascinatingly disturbing.
