The day will come that an AI will learn something that we did not deliberately teach it. When an AI is able to improve its own code, it won't be bound by the limitations of its human creator. It's only a question of when.
LK
Can a non-biological entity feel desire? Can it want to grow and become something more than what it is? I think that's a philosophical question and not a technological one.
LK
Don't agree at all and I think that's a morally dangerous approach. We're looking for a scientific definition of "desire" and "want". That's almost certainly a part of "conscious" and "self aware". Philosophy can help, but in the end, to know whether you are right or not you need the experimental results.
Experiments can be crafted in such a way as to exclude certain human beings from consciousness.
One day, it's extremely likely that a machine will say to us "I am alive. I am awake. I want..." and whether or not it's true is going to be increasingly hard to determine.
LK
Only if we define consciousness to be a state of awareness only attainable by human beings.
An LLM can't suddenly decide to do something else which isn't programmed into it.
Can we?
It's only a matter of time until an AI can learn to do something it wasn't programmed by us to do.
Can a non-biological entity feel desire? Can it want to grow and become something more than what it is? I think that's a philosophical question and not a technological one.
LK
Those things are heavy.
The goalposts? Or Americans?
The days of going to Crutchfield and getting a nice new radio for the car are long gone, unfortunately.
The real question is why does an infotainment system update brick the entire car? More and more manufacturers are tying a whole bunch of shit into the radio, that should never have been part of the radio. This shouldn't even be possible.
Lack of single payer healthcare also keeps tons of people from starting a business for themself. By the time someone has built up enough experience to have a good chance of making it on their own, they'll have a family depending on them so they can't take the big risk of leaving a steady job.
The spouse/kids have a medical issue that isn't a huge deal in any other civilized country, but you're now dependent on healthcare subsidized by your employer for them to get treatment without bankrupting the family. Most people simply can't afford to give that up.
Also housing. Most people can't afford to risk lean months while starting a business because housing and other necessities are taking such a huge chunk of everyone's paychecks now.
Things are this way by design.
Yes, that was a very old meme here on
Lol, 14 years ago I managed to get this story posted in the style of the old "Stephen King was found dead in his home today - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon" meme that used to be so popular here. Glad to know that even back then the editors didn't know the site and the memes popular on it.
https://slashdot.org/story/11/...
Goddamn I've been on this site for too long
Why should they be the only ones to pay up when literally every player in the room has the same dirt on their hands?
Every other player in the room is doing this now because they saw that there was little or no repercussions for Facebook. Yeah, a $725 million fine is some penalty, but that's peanuts to them for what they got out of it.
Today's EVERYTHING is overpriced.
Thanks, underregulated capitalism! And soon enough, tariffs will drive prices even higher. Thanks, Trump supporters!
Some Amtraks had that at least until the late 1980s. I remember being fascinated with seeing the track go by underneath when you flushed, and signs posted asking you not to flush while in a station.
Doing this doesn't make him a dictator. It does, however, make him a hypocrite- but that's hardly news for anyone.
Fellating the image of Reagan while acquiring equity stakes in corporations... chef's kiss. But still not dictatorship behavior.
He quite literally said today, "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator." He's floating that balloon, seeing how much push back he'll get for it.
Constant background noise disturbing all the other participants.
That's how working in an office is. Our IT department is in an old part of the warehouse. High ceilings, basically a big box that echoes everything. The meeting rooms are just walls with no ceiling on them (They said this was for air filtration after covid - It's more likely due to fire regulations with sprinklers if the room had a ceiling on it). Because of this, the entire department hears everything from every meeting. And one of the older guys is fucking deaf, so anytime he's in a meeting, the phone volume gets turned up to a level that just absolutely breaks through any concentration I could have had.
Dreams are free, but you get soaked on the connect time.
