I would never buy from them anymore. I am fairly certain that explains why I could not access my games from years ago.

The best part of this is that the AI could not come up with original content. All it can do is repeat what humans already output. I would say games journalism is safe from an AI takeover. Now we just need to get rid of the bot spam.

Let’s not forget, this is in the slowly vanishing desktop market. Linux is already in every Android phone and powers most of the web too. We are all dependent on Linux every day even if it’s not on the desktop.

I see this becoming more of an advanced “auto-complete”. It really shouldn’t be authoring anything, but instead work with software to make suggestions on how to improve human generated work.

Also, for software development it is a minefield. They train the AIs on code from GitHub and other projects and then suggest it back to users in violation of the license the code was built with.

The speed is not impressive, but the fact that did it at all is interesting.

Some great conversation here. Thanks everyone who responded so far!

Good point. How will we be able to tell the difference?

I agree that climate change should be our main concern. The real existential risk of AI is that it will cause millions of people to not have work or be underemployed, greatly multiplying the already huge lower class. With that many people unable to take care of themselves and their family, it will make conditions ripe for all of the bad parts of humanity to take over unless we have a major shift away from the current model of capitalism. AI would be the initial spark that starts this but it will be human behavior that dooms (or elevates) humans as a result.

The AI apocalypse won’t look like Terminator, it will look like the collapse of an empire and it will happen everywhere that there isn’t sufficient social and political change all at once.

The article was skeptical about this. It said that the problem with expecting it to revolutionize policy decisions isn’t that we don’t know what to do, it’s that we don’t want to do it. For example, we already know how to solve climate change and the smartest people on the planet in those fields have already told us what needed to be done. We just don’t want to make the changes necessary.

The article really isn’t about the hallucinations though. It’s about the impact of AI. its in the second half of the article.

I have the same job and my company opened the floodgates on AI recently. So far it’s been assistive tools, but I can see the writing on the wall. These tools will be able to do much more given enough context.

The evolution is fast. We have AI with a theory of mind:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/ai-chatbot-spontaneously-develops-a-theory-of-mind

What do you think of the AI firms who are saying it could help with making policy decisions, climate change, and lead people to easier lives?

That’s putting millions of people out of a job with no real replacement. The ones that aren’t unemployed will be commanding significantly smaller salaries.

This is my favorite perspective on AI and it’s impact. I am curious as to what your thoughts are.

Me too, unfortunately.

Meta could be doing the same thing Truth Social did: set up a giant Mastodon instance and leave it at that.

Well, to be fair Sony’s studios created all those. Microsoft is just buying what others have made.

No, not that. I guess I am looking for a solution to the headline reader that doesn’t read the article and then posts it. The kind of news of Facebook can be alarming and I don’t think it should be a news source.

I wish it went further than that. That’s kinda sad.