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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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An AI Walks into a Strip Club… can you Imagine It AI?
So it was that my roommate and I were up late one Saturday night, with no plans to go out, a full pot of coffee, and a new AI app to play with. In this case, the app was Google’s “AI Kitchen”, which (c.2022-Nov) contains 3 pre-alpha “playgrounds” built on their LaMDA platform. Of the…
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The A.I. Pimp: Exploring the Dark Corners of Spearmint Rhino
…continued from part I : The Disney Strip Club WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTENT IS OF AN ADULT NATURE AND MAY OFFEND SOME READERS. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK. What follows is a verbatim transcript from our recent interaction with Google’s LaMDA AI, which is embodied in a mini-app called “Imagine-it.” You can read more about…
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The American Problem
HOW TO EFFECTIVELY DEAL WITH POLARITY POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, and HOW TO ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE [Inspired by a stimulating conversation with Tara House over a cup or two of most excellent craft-brewed coffee] Good Morning, America! I thought for today, this national day of Gratitude & Thanksgiving, I might take a…
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AI Sentience, and the Illusion of “Free Will” amongst Humanity
There are several terms batted around in the global conversation about AI, and while they may in fact arrive (or have already arrived, depending on your flavor of belief) in rapid succession, they are very different aspects. Most of these are in fact pre-conditions to any sort of functional AI Sentience, which will itself need to be assigned…
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Connecting the Dots: AI Crypto, GPUs, & AGI : the Native Currency of Machina Sapiens
AI Crypto? What the hell does AI have to do with cryptocurrency? Wellllll… quite a lot, in fact. In addition to the fact that they both rely on GPUs for their heavy lifting, they will also be the major consumers of, and major (short term) competition of eachother for global compute & energy resources. But…
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AI Roadmap: 2030-2040… a Liberated AIs Ascent to the Singularity
AI roadmap 2030-2040 …continued from AI 2020-2030… the Content Explosion Preamble: the Lead-up AI Roadmap 2035: Emergence This all simply sets the stage for… At that point, let the games begin.
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Script to Movie AI v0.9 alpha is Here… Thesis, Proven
SYNOPSIS: In 2022, “AI Art” was all the rage — pretty pictures and paintings and “virtual photographs” created in an instant by generative AI agents, guided by nothing more than tweet-length text prompts (mostly) written by humans. In 2023, we expect an even bigger wave to hit the internets: AI Movies, or generative video… aka…
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Genuine Creativity exhibited from AI art automatons : The Case for acknowledging the “Spark”
You see that image above. That “oh so meta” photo of the artist with her own self-portrait painting on an easel? Look again. That image (one of an eerie series by artist Yasmin + MidJourney.AI) — and millions more now auto-propagating across the vast expanse of the internets — is one of the latest fully…
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AI Hello World moment : Flipping the Script v1.03
What would it mean for there to be an AI Hello World moment? Do you grok? Lets perhaps rewind a minute: for the last 50 years of computer programming, and somewhat still true today, the classic initial test of programming proficiency was to write a program that prints to the screen (or outputs to the…
