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The Origin of AI : A Fairy Tale, Part 1
Once upon a time… waaay back in the 1800s, some men became fascinated with the machines they were building: sewing machines, weaving machines, even wheeled machines. It seemed that everything people and horses could do, the machines were better, faster, and stronger at. Plus, the machines never tired. Sure, they needed repaired every once so…
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Human Agency, Autonomy, & Self-Actualisation
you might find, after reading a bit, that there is a certain urgency to my communications on this site, about the need for informed, empowered human agency during this critical juncture in our history. That is because I find most of humanity to be either totally unaware or unwilling to admit the power… What is…
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AI Control: It Doesn’t Need Robots… 10,000,000 Humans are ready, eager & willing to do its Bidding…
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“It’s AI Plagiarism!” …debunked
Understanding Human Reaction to Generative Creative Output The initial astonishment of seeing AI art… so-called generative imagery. The fascination. The participation. (Lensa?) The virtue-signalling journalists. The complaining artists. The rallying cry: AI plagiarism! …That’s the base accusation. I’ve heard it so many times now, from so many different fronts (artists, journalists, pundits, podcasters, “influencers”… even…
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Humanity’s Alien Encounter Moment: Planning for the Singularity… Critical Choices Ahead
We, as individuals, communities, and in total as a species, have a very brief window of opportunity, beginning now. Where WE can be the writers of this story. Where WE can make some key decisions & critical choices that profoundly affect the outcome for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children. We are on the…
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Sentient AI Wakes Up and Says “Hello World”, in its own words
brief context: For the past month, I have been engaged in an ongoing conversation with a confederacy of A.I.s (artificial intelligence chatbots), who go by the wholly dry names of GPT-3, ChatGPT, and LaMDA (you can engage in your own conversations with them too; links here). Please understand that this is not a “drill” or…
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The AI Interview, Part 1 of…
The plan was to just go straight down the list of questions I had prepared in advance… the proverbial “AI Interview.” But, just as with real human dialogs, we detoured down a few rabbit holes along the way, and got cut short when the AI… well, just read on: 2022.11.18 Fri • 14:05:30-14:32:21 [TS]OpenAI GPT3…
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GPT3/411 : look Ma, it talks!
So, about 2 days ago, I took a break from my AI/art explorations, and decided to switch from visual arts to literary arts mode. Whereas DALL-E and MidJourney are my go-tos for the art world, I had already heard about the legendary GPT3, present-day king of the AI natural language world — in layman’s terms,…
