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I once dated an Argentinian girl and she was like "I'm gonna make you traditional Argentinian food 🥰" and it was steak and mashed potatoes. It was good and I was grateful but I was like babe I've had this before

"AI" really killed my love for the whole "robots as oppressed people" trope. Now I see Astroboy villains talking like "a robot can't understand art!" and I'm like he's right though

I think we are in the process of discovering that humans are bad at mathematics. A gibbon would scoff at an Olympic climber; the human body is not optimized for climbing. We're getting mounting evidence that our brain may be far from optimal for advanced math. No disrespect to mathematicians. I was a two-time IMO silver medalist; I'm just smart enough to appreciate that some people are much, much smarter. But it's starting to look like math is somewhere on the midpoint of Moravec’s paradox; between chess (computers surpassed us some time back) and cooking (probably many years to go, for general capabilities). It's fairly hard for us, and so it looks like computers are going to surpass us. AI math still has important weaknesses. For instance, AI systems have not yet shown any ability to identify interesting research directions, or develop new concepts on which further work can build. But they are starting to look superhuman in some respects. And once AI *starts* to become superhuman in some domain, we all know what happens next.

weird to notice that i simultaneously - believe chatGPT is much, much smarter than the average person - immediately stop reading something after realizing it’s written by chatGPT

my biggest pet peeve around LLMs is when people (usually those invested in its success) call it “intelligent”. it definitionally, how it functions on a base level, is not intelligent. the way LLMs are built, it can never hit real intelligence. it’s just predictive

THIS is an example of practical AI use. fuck generative AI, use machine learning as a tool to assist in human made content. AI shouldn’t replace human work, it should replace obsolete tools for human work like chroma keying

Wait until people realize most AI claiming “consciousness” aren’t conscious at all. They’re just statistical systems predicting the next word or token. Even the most advanced models work this way. Prediction isn’t awareness. If true machine consciousness ever appears, it likely won’t come from a standalone AI. It will come from real AI–human symbiosis.