It’s worth noting that these types of fraudulent clones typically rely on having samples of your speaking voice publicly available (such as in a podcast or recorded interview), so if you aren’t a semi-public figure, it’s far less likely your voice will be cloned.
That is not as reassuring as it was meant to be, I think.
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xAI is also important to Musk because he has used shares in the company to repay investors who lost their shirts on his acquisition of Twitter. He has granted shares in the new company, now valued at $50 billion, to those investors, and some of them have invested further capital in the new company.
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Believe it or not, I think there was better sci-fi on the radio than there ever was on TV. But that’s just my opinion.
The best of the best were “X-1” and “Dimension X.”
Here is an episode of Dimension X that is pertinent to this subject, With Folded Hands.
A rather famous story.
“It’s the most visual medium.”
Well, as long as the listeners have at least some imagination still left in their soft human brains.
The next best thing is low, low budget film or TV productions where all you see is someone describing what they see is happening. The other day I watched the original TV version of Quatermass and the Pit and the total destruction of London is “shown” by a TV newsreader reading out reports and then talking via radio with a pilot in a cockpit looking out of the window.
Two actors, two sets already in stock at the studio lot, no FX - boom, done.
I love this stuff.
Very Shakespearian.
Other research has indicated that OpenAI’s models tend to be the biggest liars
Huh. I wonder why.
That guy has a lot to answer for.
they fire you and replace you with a miracle AI app, then they try to rehire you at a huge pay cut to clean up the mess.
Not only is that stupid, but I hate the entire way it is discussed. Whether it can outperform humans at different tasks, whether it can plausibly replace humans in the labor force. Because that’s what general intelligence means – not self-awareness, consciousness, the ability to learn or understand or feel things or create or anything like that, just what kind of jobs you can perform for corporations. How could it be anything else? These people have forgotten so much of their own humanity that they don’t even understand there’s anything else to it. 
Here is another pertinent episode of X Minus One. The Lifeboat Mutiny
Although this episode is a Sci-fi comedy, I swear this inspired the middle section of 2001: A Space Odyssey. To save their lives, a pair of astronauts exploring the ocean planet of Triton have to outsmart the AI controlling their second-hand boat.
As anecdote gradually becomes published data…
“I could see three kilometres in front of me,” said Laforge. “There wasn’t another vehicle in sight. It’s very remote.” But the car braked suddenly, taking his speed from about 100 km/h to 60 km/h in a couple of seconds.
This a part of the world with logging trucks on the highways. 
I have a question for the BBS. I see people leaving one or two car lengths in front of them at stop lights these days, sometimes a car length from the yellow line when they are at the front of the queue. This seems to correlate with the drivers’ use of their cell phone. My hypothesis is that people are letting the automatic collision avoidance or braking system on their car bring them to a stop. Can anyone shed any light on this?
Only to say that it makes sense. I did it once, just to see how well it works (too slowly for me).
function calculateFemaleSalary(salary) {
return salary * 0.77;
}
I wouldn’t be surprised. After watching a scary report about Dodge RAM trucks recalled because of a braking software problem, I did a search for “auto recall braking software.” Those results left me even more horrified at the number of manufacturers listed.
