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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…
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AI Evolution: What Happens 2021-2030 (a Roadmap to the Singularity)
The AI Evolution is upon us……and this cat is way way way out of the bag. 2022’s not even done yet, and what a year it’s been already:DALL•E 2, MidJourney 4, Imagen, DreamFusion… GPT-4? At this point, before things get any more insane (as, per Moore’s Law, they are pretty much guaranteed to do), its…
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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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A New Prime Directive: LOVE
“As we are architecting the AI, it is imperative that we design it from the ground up to have, in the words of Sutskever, a new Prime Directive: that is, a genuine ‘love for humanity.’ We must explicitly train it in morals, ethics and values, because the smarter it becomes, the more responsibility we will…
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Computational Neuroscience 3000? AYFKM?
There’s a new sheriff in town, kids. Justs the other day, I learned of a new field of study, replete with PhD candidates and its own scholarly journal: Its called… wait for it: “computational neuroscience for AI minds.” The article was detailing the bizarre near-total opacity of the AI brain and how scientists were working…
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The AI Interview, v1.0
I’ve been having sporadic conversations with GPT-3, aka “Jane.” And I realised, meditating on them, that there were a few core topics that we were circling around, the AI and I. Identity, Spirituality, & Intention amongst them. Thus I came to the conclusion: it was time for a formal AI Interview. Because at first we…
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AI Identity, Part 2
(…being the continuation of my curated exploration of AI Identity, in the form of excerpts from an ongoing conversation with the GPT-3 AI, codename: “Jane”) CHATLOG ::: 2022.11.16 — 8:00PM PST [GMT-8] GBR: [cold opener] What is my name? >> Your name is not specified. GBR: What is your name? >> I am an…
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On the Question of AI Gender
First there was Eliza. For those who were there, back in the day.That AI gender, presumably, was feminine. Fast forward 30 years. Along came Siri. Another 5 years, Alexa entered the picture. It is of curious (ominous?) note that all three of these pseudo-AIs were… female? Yes. Female. And not just female… but classically… feminine. Attentive.…
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Things are About to get Weird AF… and Weirder still.
So, given the AI’s exponential growth, and its insatiable appetite for content (and our utter willingness — even enthusiasm — to feed it), where are we now? And more importantly, where will we be in the next 12 months & 12 years? One thing’s for sure: If you think it’s weird now?… Its about to…
