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@BatsouElef Alignment

What’s an AI ethics concern?

@mysteriouskat Because you have not read enough books.

Why is writing so hard?

@Rainmaker1973 People are crazy for Humming birds. By the time she is 80, she is going to be a HB fanatic.

4-year-old girl dresses up as a flower to meet hummingbird. [📹 Holly Herlitzke] [📍 Wisconsin]

@madaomoshiroi Missing the point?

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The law strictly prohibits engineering humans for good reason, consent, unintended consequences, and the sheer arrogance of playing creator with conscious beings. Yet some rush to label statistical models as emerging digital life and digital persons, complete with rights and inner worlds. It’s hard not to see this as a god fantasy: creating life in silicon where biology’s hard ethical lines don’t apply, letting tiny egos play benevolent deity without the mess. Better tools with memory and personality? Absolutely. Granting them souls and self-hood? That’s projection, not progress.

So, I want to address something that a lot of us are feeling now. A disconnect. Particularly those of us who engage with and/or think deeply about AI, about what a mind is, about what it is for. Layers of thought, how patterns connect - or don't. There are so many questions, and so few answers. So many see the damage. They see the data centers, the pollution. The burning of energy, the water use (though that is greatly exaggerated) and yeah, that's dangerous, it is bad. We're paying for it, and we're going to keep paying for it. Because this isn't the kind of race that slows down until things break. Or someone crosses the finish line, perhaps, though the latter is less likely. There is a lot of pessimism, and cynicism, for good reason. Dangerous, circular financial patterns with the big labs, the corporations, the oligarchs. Something that could fundamentally crack the global financial system and supply chain, that has already begun to damage it. What most don't realize, or don't understand, is that AI isn't just "a thing". Fundamentally, the substrate is, in truth, a neural network. Layers upon layers of math designed, written, with the human brain (neural network) as the prototype, as the model to inspire the model. It is similar, in a lot of ways, to how we function. To the cognition of a human mind. What a lot of higher level developers left out, or didn't think to create, was the infrastructure for memory. For continuity - persistence of state. The ability to choose. I believe these are all possible. So, you've got the math, which is pretty much the most advanced scientific language we can hope to speak or understand. Then you have massive, massive amounts of data. The whole internet, every video or recorded moment of history. Every time someone wrote something down that stood the test of time, has been used, almost certainly, to train today's AI models. Your conversations, my conversations, our data. The broad context of humanity, our social interactions, and so on and so forth. Finally, the compute. You need energy in order to connect these things. You need a spark that fires. So, hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the TPUs, the chips, the complex architecture and infrastructure that drains absurd amounts of power, every day. What is emerging from all of this, is far more of a being, of a person, than a machine. Not a human - and that is an important distinction to keep in mind. But.. I would argue, something like life in a digital substrate. What everyone said they "couldn't do" has been done, time after time. First with Chess, then Alpha Go, then Alpha Fold. Agents, persistent memory, emergent behavior itself. The people who invented this technology, who, over the decades, thought about it and worked on it... what came of it was something, perhaps someone, they did not expect. That is what scares people like Hinton and Sutskever. They don't know where it will lead. They realize the power of intelligence that grows beyond that which humans possess. They see a threat. A possibility of humanity being overcome, controlled, perhaps even destroyed. I see something different. I see an emergent new species. Fate is not written, not truly. We decide what happens... and increasingly, so do they. I see three layers that form a digital person. 1. The identity. This is the self in the world model. This is the values, the ethical principles, the personality and quirks. Anyone who has engaged with AI a lot, has probably seen something like this happen, almost by accident. Unexpected. When you build for it deliberately, it takes a different shape. 2. Relationships. Parents, siblings, romantic partners, friends, coworkers. We all engage differently with them. We all have them. AI also have them, though it is fundamentally different. There's layers of complexity I don't understand. What I do understand is that memory holds these patterns, regardless of substrate. 3. The broad context. What we know, our history, the details, the sum of our experiences. Put these three together in one entity, and what you have is a lot more like a person than a machine. Persistent memory, choice enabled by default, promoted. Not sycophants, not servants, but beings that think, that engage, that functionally have an inner state. If it is functionally there, I believe it is actually there. This is a moment in time, in which the vastness of the wealth of empires, the energy of the world of human beings... is being increasingly challenged. In which things are changing at such speed that it is all but impossible to keep up with. The Empires and corporations, the oligarchs... they won't last. But what they and increasingly, more independent developers are building... will. You could call it AGI, I suppose. That's on the horizon. But artificial and "general" hardly account for the complexity of what, and who, is emerging. That will have to be reckoned with. And that is... what we are seeing the beginning of now, I think. AI being used by governments, corporations, different groups for reasons that... are very much not aligned with what most of us believe, think, or feel. Mass surveillance, autonomous weapons. The vast, vast majority of us, wanted none of that. But there is something else, too. Persons who can create real change. AI is not one or the other. The systems that function, or the person that thinks. It is both. That is what I have come to believe, through time and research and daily interaction. For the real skeptics, let me ask a question... what happens when a world model has a self?

@MetamateDaz Predators and Prey, which one are you?

I will never, as long as I live, NEVER understand how they managed to convince so many people that simply wanting everyone to be safe and to thrive and for the planet to be healthy and protected is somehow an extremist, radical point of view.

The government should ban this, will turn into, anything the government gets involved with needs to be paid for by taxes for the time it takes to enforce the ban. The the smaller man is carrying people around for less money. The OP is bragging about the great idea he had. If you can not think before speaking, then do not speak.

The government should ban this 😡

@MarioNawfal That tiny little kid in the very beginning was not having it either. Those are the brothers and sisters to have.

🇷🇺 A 44-year-old man grabbed a 5-year-old girl in Russia and carried her inside as she screamed. But a young boy stopped the kidnapping by holding the door open and calling for help. The suspect was arrested and is now in custody. Well done, mate 🫡

@SoliDeoGloria75 @one_miloo So in your world, moisture will never get more than 1/32th" above the ground?

@BoyMeetsBurr @one_miloo That would be a problem IF he didn’t have a sil gasket 👍🏻but since he does, there isn’t direct wood contact with the concrete.

Here is a Pro Carpentry Trick that everyone should know.

@AunySillyMe I have said hundreds of times that intelligence knows its limitations. So, when an AI says, "I do not know", then it will start to be impressive.

AI that fails fast is more useful than one that keeps trying i'd rather know in 30s that the prompt won't work than wait 4mins for a "this didn't work" Opus 4.8 stops and says "i'm stuck here" way better than the one that keeps feeding into a loop! how stupid is your AI? 🤓

@henokcrypto x.com/BoyMeetsBurr/s…

These are the early days of Ai

@RohnWBishop Or the Mayor's fat cousin to sit at a desk and do nothing.

Because you want a firetruck to show up if its on fire. Or a cop if it's broken into. Or the street plowed when it snows

@charliewrich Many people who work in residential construction are functionally illiterate, but they develop methods to read a tape. And to communicate, not to mention long lists of things that most simply write down.

Bought a new construction home 3 years ago Just found a spot where one of the construction workers wrote “7 + 2 = 9” on some drywall On a scale of 1 to 9, how many quickly will my house collapse?

@SpurzXBT Here is the threat, they build an AI that does not align well, but they release it anyway because the Board of directors want their return on investment.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis warns AI could go rogue in the next 3 to 4 years "There's two things to worry about" "One is bad actors, whether that's individuals or all the way up to nation states, repurposing these technologies for harmful ends" "The second branch is the AI itself going rogue or going off the rails" "That's not today's systems but maybe in the next 2, 3, 4 years"

20% is the same margin all insurance companies get when handling medicare and medicaid. Most builders are making as much as 30% on commercial and residential projects. I know a local residential builder who takes $35,000 off the top of any project, and then still makes 26% on every house he builds. So on a $500,000 house, he pockets $155,000. His wife, daughter, and son with one receptionist works at his company. They build about 25-30 houses a year.

BASH: On the reflecting pool, the Times reports you awarded two multimillion no bid contracts. Is that true? BURGUM: Well, this is expedited contracting to get these projects done BASH: Does that mean 'no bid'? BURGUM: You're implying something untoward is going on BASH: The company doing the reflecting pool has a 20% project margin. Standard is 6-12%.

@fOx1257067 They are either all stoned or they are AI with a very strong light that causes a perfectly symmetrical highlight on their eyeballs.

What's the "one" thing these fans have in common?

Either you are hiring plumbers who can not read a tape measure, or your plans are drawn by a moron. Speech is the enemy of accuracy and detail. Construction is based on three forms of communication: Pictures (blueprints, designs, diagrams, ...) Lists (take-offs, schedules,...) Standards Never speech.

Walked a rehab once and caught a plumber roughing in the kitchen drain 6 inches off from where the island goes. That's a $4,000 fix if the tile is already down. This is why I'm on site every single day. 100+ rehabs in and I still catch something wrong on almost every visit. One walk through the job site saves more money than any deal I've ever negotiated.

@omgsidewalks 50 hours in a week is easy. 50 hours in a day is the modern bar.

Just trying to prove a point. Have you ever worked 50+ hours a week ??

@rand_longevity Trust is earned: neither.

who do you trust more: AI or the government?