• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Douglas Adams also warned us. Every AI in his books is either malfunctioning or an asshole or both. He clearly had no faith in the concept of AI, especially not what corporations would do with it.

    And then Elon tweets this:

    Grok is an AI modeled after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!

    They don’t even understand the warnings.

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      4 months ago

      Honestly, it feels like being a tech bro requires you to have a brain defect where you read or see something meant to be a warning and it causes you to somehow interpret it as the best idea you’ve ever seen.

      Basically sums up the last 20 years of Silicon Valley and their nonstop hopping from dumb to dumber to dumberest.

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      4 months ago

      And named after, I think, Stranger In a Strange Land,

      Heinlein also had some interesting AI and immortal human themes in his works.

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        Also, unlike Elon, Heinlein cared more of the future of humanity beyond his own self-interest. Pretty much everything he ever wrote was preaching his ideas on how to make everything work better. Some of those ideas were kind of nutty, but he wasn’t proposing them in order to enrich himself.