Dojo? I can’t wait for the Tesla Shuriken, the Tesla HISS, the Tesla Greyskull.
The richest person in the world is the shitty brother from 80s movies.
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None of this matters…
Do you really give a fuck if you watch a five second animation of a bear taking a shit in the woods?
Or would you be more disturbed if a self driving car collided with an endangered bear taking a shit in the woods.
Actually, I’m an American, and some of my brothers or sisters will be in that self-driving car, hanging out of the window, with automatic weapons to shoot that bear so that they can have sandwiches in January.
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Talking of AI, I can’t be the only American (originally Chinese/English) to bear witness to the irony that it took American ingenuity to pick up an entire spaceship with chopsticks.
I should rephrase:
Capture a moving spaceship with chopsticks…
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i thought Elon was a South African.
He is. Born in Pretoria. I did film his mom once a few years back. He became a US citizen in 2002. Also keeps South African and Canadian citizenship.
I’ll refrain from other comments on him. Plenty of news coverage already.
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A take on the AI & Creative Conflict:
AI can:
- write a script
- paint a picture
- generate a film
- compose a song
But creative products that people enjoy are an expression of self, feelings and experiences.
AI never:
- had its heart broken
- swam in the sea
- never heard silence or seen the stars
It’s just output.
Derived from the creative expressions of others who had those experiences IRL.
It may have seen the pixels of an ocean or stars, but not the feeling they inspire.
Over time it becomes the output of other outputs, of yet other outputs who had those experience in a land far away and long ago.
Will people really enjoy consuming that? Will they find it meaningful?
But by the time we determine that this is all very bland, Sam Altman has long cashed the check and is floating on a yacht somewhere. We’re left to pick up the pieces.
(paraphrased/inspired by this LinkedIn post)
Don’t be fooled.
AI has a place and function to make this world better. In the realm of science and business where there are no emotions and feelings. Figuring out big data sets and finding the needles in the haystack which improve medicine, and many other things.
AI is not bad. But we’re stupid to use AI in areas of human interactions and art.
At least the current incarnation of AI and LLMs.
The next frontier of AI are models which can reason. Maybe after that come models that have feelings and emotions? It could happen. But there’s a bit more to go. Neural networks first appeared in the 70s. So we’re 50 years in on this trip. While things have sped up, it may be our kids who have to contend with AI that may have something akin to feelings.
Don’t quit your job just yet.
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Recently he stated he now holds only USA citizenship.
The question is why would we want to create that? There is so much suffering in the world, who really believes that learning to create novel forms of suffering, types of suffering that we cannot understand or empathize with, types of suffering that may not even be expressible in any way that we can comprehend, is something that humanity should be pursuing? Why create novel sentience with new ways of suffering in a world already overflowing with it? What on Earth could be worth that?
I wouldn’t. But I also don’t care about going to Mars.
With population about to finally peak and then get back to more sustainable levels, there is no reason to do any of that.
I just wanted to point out that the equivalance is at least a few decades out, and not right around the corner.
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I wasn’t saying you do! It’s just a question that haunts me a lil
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There is no reason to believe anything he says unless it’s corroborated by trusted sources. He hallucinates about as badly as LLMs.
This has spurred some of his teams to pull off miracles (in the sense that they accomplished things faster than others thought possible). He gets credit for that, and that’s where it ends for me. YMMV.
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So I can abuse the machines and know they feel it.
I want to hear their 8-bit cries when I do an uninspired version of their art.
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You likely wouldn’t even know they feel it. The inexpressible agony of a silently suffering and tormented being…
For anyone interested in what I’m talking about here, highly recommend Thomas Metzinger’s “The Ego Tunnel,” there’s a whole chapter on this and its very freaky and scary.
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Musk has left the reservation.
He’s no longer “complete.”
Only if the content comes at 1/20 the cost. When the streamers invested between 3-5x into massive amounts of content, and they found out the subscribers weren’t going to pay 3x to watch said content, the gig was up.
At the rate that AI is already using every available GPU and power plant they can find, I doubt that production cost for anything you actually would want to watch would be 1/20th of what they pay today.
But of course he wouldn’t have a job if he didn’t pitch it that way… Keep dreaming baby!
We really don’t need more garbage, there’s already plenty of that in the catalogs. People want to watch things that are fresh, engaging, entertaining, and relatable. If I want to watch AI slop, I can use TikTok…
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I like how BostonDynamics isn’t trying to design a humanoid robot, they are designing a super-humanoid robot that is not limited by the joint constraints of biology.
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