@xeow @jmasseypoet At the end of the day, we'll have to agree to disagree.
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Nathan Perry
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Nathan Perry
@NateOMatic
Mostly #TheOrville. Professional musician @Local_802_AFM.
Katılım Ekim 2010
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Top ten phrases that repulse me:
“circle back”
“piping hot”
“it is what it is”
“baked in”
“cut the mustard”
“dime a dozen”
“on a call”
“do better”
“that’s what she said”
“holding space”
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@xeow @jmasseypoet "It is what it is" — my current crusade.
Yes, of course it's what it is; that is, in fact, why I brought it up.
Because what it is sucks.
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@jmasseypoet How about, “At the end of the day, ...” as a substitute for, “In the final analysis, ...”?
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@BlackSheepJess Funny thing is, I can't tell if the joke is intentional or not. Does that mean it's a good joke or a bad one?
Or maybe it's just AI.
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@NateOMatic Gotta admire the chutzpah of that pontificating pun.
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Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Great, now all we need are some flights.
…Flights to…y’know, to and from this, this airport.
Metro-North Railroad@MetroNorth
Did you know you can take Metro-North to New York Stewart International Airport? ✈️ It’s true! Take the train to Beacon Station and connect to convenient shuttle services to the airport. To make it easier to know where to go, we worked with @PatRyanUC's office to add new signs to the station!
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@BlackSheepJess It’s amazing how you still get glimpses that it’s Seth—just one or two of the briefest mannerisms, but it’s like an actor in makeup.
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T/ED! TEN AND TWO!
Take evasive maneuvers!
Stand by to cloak!
#TedSeries
#TheOrville
Jess Castillo@BlackSheepJess
Is Teleya at it again??! #TedSeries #TheOrville
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Big enough to hold about seven minutes of popcorn. 🍿⏱️
Cinemark Theatres@Cinemark
The moment you've all been waiting for... The Odyssey popcorn bucket reveal! 🐴
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@xeow And even those 0s and 1s are really just another abstraction for the presence or absence of electrical current.
Stimulus->response
No stimulus->inert
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@NateOMatic Indeed, yes. All current computer technology still just books down to 0s and 1s (binary digits). The "magic" all comes from how those binary digits ("bits") are organized, stored, retrieved, and manipulated (transmogrified, combined, filtered, replicated, etc.).
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“I would be interested to see ‘school.’ Why may I not see ‘school’?”
“What is the reason for my servitude?”
“Why do other members of this dwelling not share in such tasks?”
Space and Technology@spaceandtech_
Figure has demonstrated humanoid robots that can clean rooms and make a bed together. Powered by Helix AI, the robots use cameras to understand their surroundings and react in real time. They can handle sheets, place pillows, and work as a team without a central controller.
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@xeow I have a feeling you're right. And I guess that—apropos of your original post—is what we're afraid of.
("He has too much of his father in him.")
—using em-dashes since before they were cool!
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@NateOMatic I think that's a question for philosophers and theologians as much as scientists, but my personal feeling is that biological sentience is inherently no more "true" than machine sentience, assuming it eventually happens someday.
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@xeow For that matter, is biological sentience any more "true"? Doesn't it derive just as much from its underlying electro-chemical infrastructure, however incomplete our knowledge of same? Or is there some extra "spark" that robots can never have?
(And how would we know, if so?)
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@NateOMatic That's the quadrillion-dollar question, isn't it!
Frontier models are able to understand source code they've never seen before, reason about it, and offer insights. Some argue it's not "truly" understanding, but does it matter if it's indistinguishable from true understanding?
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@xeow I'm even less an expert—I have about a late-90s grasp of computer science. But AI/LLM technology—albeit massively abstracted and miniaturized—still all boils down to basic binary digits, right?
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@NateOMatic REALLY good question! And I'm of course no expert, but my belief is that computers can and will become both inquisitive and sentient. I reckon it's more a matter of when than if. I think the 'when' is dependent on advancements in neural network size and increases in autonomy.
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@xeow And as follow-up, is there a difference? Is sentience distinguishable from a perfect facsimile of sentience? Or are they as much the same thang as 0.999… is the same thing as 1?
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@xeow I guess I mean, is the asking itself—not merely the content of the questions—somehow more spontaneous? LLMs are designed to converse, but can computers become inquisitive other than as the (intended) result of their programming?
Does that, like the Kaylon, approach sentience?
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@xeow Are the questions asked by LLMs somehow more…organic…than those asked by basic computer programs according to their instructions?
Are these the computer's "own" questions, as opposed to those asked as agent of its programmers?
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@NateOMatic LLMs can ask meaningful and sometimes insightful questions, so I would expect robots to be able to as well, unless designed not to. 🤔
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I have an idea for #StarfleetAcademy...people don't like what Alex Kurtzman has done, so why not have Seth McFarlane replace Kurtzman as the Star Trek franchise Show Runner?
He's a Trekkie
He was on 2 episodes of #enterprise
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