Nav: Hey! I spent a good little while working on the cover story for the summer issue of the Walrus. Read, share, shower me with praise, write me hate mail etc thewalrus.ca/ai-hype/

Hey! I spent a good little while working on the cover story for the summer issue of the Walrus. Read, share, shower me with praise, write me hate mail etc thewalrus.ca/ai-hype/

AI Is a False God | The Walrusthewalrus.ca The real threat with super intelligence is falling prey to the hype

Just these few words get to the heart of it: "writing done by AI chatbots is so lifeless and generic". In particular, I find the cadence of AI writing almost unbearable.

By the way, "In ten or twenty years from now, AI will undoubtedly be more advanced than it is now" is not necessarily a given: bsky.app/profile/onis...

Very persuasive. Even more so when you consider that they don't even include model collapse. youtu.be/dDUC-LqVrPU?... (The article they discuss: arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125) #AI

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i hope in 20 years we at least have some better vocabulary than just AI to explain computing

That we are hitting the limits of scaling with transformers doesn't mean much in terms of innovation, this was just one avenue of development

Drum machines are cool but m.youtube.com/watch?v=oIIx...

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Excellent article. And to have Marian Bantjes doing the images? Sterling. Thank you

Fantastic essay, Nav!

Thanks kindly!

Is it on the newsstands already? (the old-fashioned real-life ones)

Not yet I don’t think. Should be soon though!

I'll keep an eye out!

“the right pattern mattering more than the right response.“

Your description of signs and structuralism is misleading, mostly because you relied on Derrida's explanations - a sign is a signifier and a signified, meaning it terminates in some part or pattern of phenomenal experience

This is also why a machine could easily be created which feels desire, it's just a matter of creating another dimension of sensory input, of pleasure, pain, what have you, to include in the system of signs.

Here, I lay out in much more in depth terms how structuralism helps us understand AI and it's potential here cosmonautmag.com/2023/05/arti...

Artificial Intelligence, Universal Machines, and Killing Bourgeois Dreams - Cosmonautcosmonautmag.com Nicolas D Villarreal tackles the question of artificial intelligence from a Marxist perspective, arguing against both utopian and dystopian prophecies regarding the emergence of these new technologies...

I don’t think I agree with your definition of desire but the link looks interesting. Thanks, I’ll take a look

Further evidence for the semiotic nature of the mind shared by both LLMs and humans is that extrapolating brain scan data into the latent space of text in stable diffusion allows us to see what the person being scanned is looking at with high semantic fidelity www.semanticscholar.org/paper/High-r...

[PDF] High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity | Semantic Scholarwww.semanticscholar.org A new method based on a diffusion model (DM) to reconstruct images from human brain activity obtained via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) termed Stable Diffusion, which reduces the comput...

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WORSHIP THE GOLDEN IDOL OF AI! - John Shirley Blogjohn-shirley.com Yes, a study shows AI’s rise is having an enormous environmental impact: major tech companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta combined more than doubled their energy consumption between 2017 a...

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