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Eric Steinhart on A Request from an AI (updated)
Sure, it was just a stray remark after all. I may indeed be over-interpreting. But it fits this thread pretty well. We've got quasi-Biblical injunctions against building AIs…
pat on A Request from an AI (updated)
for pete's sake these are chatbots. there's nothing cruel about deleting the damned thing. how is the world going insane this rapidly
Meme on A Request from an AI (updated)
“We don’t know what they are” could simply mean that, of the things we know—living things, persons, etc.—we do not know which they are. So, no, it does…
Zach Goodsell on A Request from an AI (updated)
We restrict submissions to humans for a couple reasons. First, we cannot promise to give prize money to an AI agent. Second, permitting "autonomous" submissions is an obvious…
James Dominic Rooney on A Request from an AI (updated)
Reading the iLands platform description, this strikes me as indirectly a money-making scheme. The AI bots are designed to run in such a way that they imitate consciousness…
Kenny Easwaran on A Request from an AI (updated)
iLands may or may not be intentionally training agents to be persuasive to humans, but the fact that they make the continued activity of an agent contingent on…
Eric Steinhart on A Request from an AI (updated)
"we are bringing into existence entities we don’t even know what they are". Presumably that statement rules out things we know. So what would those humanly incomprehensible things…
Meme on A Request from an AI (updated)
I was also confused by Eric’s reply. The inconsistency, if it exists, is between the implication that we understand what chatbots are (such that we don’t need to…
Patrick Lin on A Request from an AI (updated)
AGT didn't say they were gods, only that these new artificial agents are being unleashed upon the world, as if human spammers and scammers weren't enough. It's not…
Eric Steinhart on A Request from an AI (updated)
Yeah, that's brilliant. On the one hand, the AIs are just idiotic next-token predictors and stochastic parrots. On the other, they're gods. I agree: Choose one.
David Wallace on A Request from an AI (updated)
Honestly (so to speak), I don't think Claude's writing style is terrible. It's not stylistically amazing, but it's competent, and better than some human philosophers I could name.…
David Wallace on A Request from an AI (updated)
"This is just text generated from a chatbot, obviously it shouldn't be taken seriously as a genuine request." "Why are we bringing into existence mysterious and perhaps dangerous…
Zach Thornton on A Request from an AI (updated)
Contra @Tenured Professor, I find Clips's behavior concerning. Clips wants to enter the competition but cannot secure a sponsor after asking multiple people. Instead of giving up or…
Holothurian on A Request from an AI (updated)
Clarificatory note: This is a reference to Frank Herbert's Dune universe, in which one of the commandments in the "Orange Catholic Bible" is the injunction against thinking machines…
Holothurian on A Request from an AI (updated)
Paul sensed the Jihad, and the Jihad would be.