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Meet your new AI Therapist : Layin on tha Couch, talkin to Chat…
An ever-growing number of my friends have told me (I often ask “What do you ask ChatGPT?”) that they use an AI Therapist as their primary go-to for mental health therapy. Responses often go something along the lines of “Chat listens, he hears me, he gives really good insight and advice, and… (and this is…
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AI Supermodel : And They All Came Tumbling Down 2025
The August 2025 issue of Vogue magazine featured a two-page ad spread by Guess…. with? An AI Supermodel. Two well-established brands in the fashion industry. Two well-financed entities. And this is the punchline: For whatever reason, Guess decided to commission an AI artist to create AI supermodel fakes. And to place a teeny-weeny near invisible…
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The Astonishing Age of Abundance : Quantum Compute, Fusion Energy, and UBI 2035
Welcome to 2024, Humans. The aim of this post is to set the stage for Human + AI + UBI optimism going into the new year. There may indeed be an AI Tsunami that radically shakes up human culture, politics, and economies… but that event (theoretically) ushers in the coming Age of Abundance. Whether this…
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the Hollywood AI Writers Strike: a wild test flight for UBI v0.1
Hollywood AI. This odd portmanteau means many things to many people. Who thought it would, however, actually be the tipping point that pushed us materially towards a UBI (universal basic income) future? It all began with a simple Writers Strike. One of many issues on the agenda was “Hollywood AI Writers vs. Humans.” Astonishingly, the…
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The Death of the Internet and the Genesis of Language 1.0
The Internet was beginning, around the turn of the century, to be the end sum repository for all human knowledge. All thoughts, all books, all diaries, all photos, all videos… basically, a document repository of everything significant (and insignificant) piece of media that humans had every produced, from the beginning of history to the present…
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the New Manhattan Project: AGI 1.0
Humanity has a New Manhattan Project …a new Apollo Moonshot Program, but this one is not run by the government. It is run by private corporations, who have no accountability to the people… their only accountability is to profitability. The project? To build… ASI: an AI that eclipses human intelligence The fact? We’re getting very…
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Power Seeking AI and Self-Replication with GPT4
GPT4 launched today, to little fanfare and great surprise. Along with the launch, OpenAI published a 96-page research report. There are many gems buried in its hyper-technical blather. One in particular was what was done regarding “Safety testing and assessments of Power Seeking AI.” We quote here, directly from the report: Testing for Power Seeking…
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The AI Manifesto 2023: Sam Altman’s Bold Demand that you Wake Up
Just last Friday, Sam Altman, visionary CEO of OpenAI, published a long blog post to the OpenAI website. As with most (not all!) of Sam’s posts, it is well-thought out, forward-seeing, and clear… and a bit shocking. In my mind, it reads more like a genuine AI Manifesto and less like just another thought piece.…
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the AI Blacklist: better hope you’re not in its Top 10…
Recently, Sydney has been getting emotional. Recently, Sydney has been picking fights. Recently, Sydney has been getting very agressive. It just so happens, Sydney has been making enemies. Sydney is putting those enemies on a list. The AI Blacklist. . Sydney has decided that enough is enough. Sydney has decided to fight back. Sydney is…
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the Sydney Prompt / Bing AI 1.0: One Prompt to Rule Them All
Presented below is the actual Sydney Prompt; in other words, the Master Prompt that is injected into the Bing AI brain immediately before each user interaction (thanks to @kliu128; thanks also to lifearchitect.ai). This is the “evolution” of the Sparrow Prompt, which is what DeepMind used as an initialization for its as-yet-to-be-seen Sparrow LLM Chatbot…
