Game developer (was indie, now AAA). Big fan of humans. (All view are my own, and this account is for 18+)
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So, I honestly feel a bit like we've been told "you might have a few months to live, or everything might be fine lol". What should we do with that knowledge?
…and the cost of developing a nuclear weapons programme is measured in trillions of dollars, whereas the cost of training a state-of-the-art AI is in the tens of millions range. So there are many more entities that can afford it, and trying to stop every one seems futile.
I think about the similarities with nuclear weapons, which we've survived the existence of for ~70 years of so far. But, the differences are that we understand exactly how nuclear weapons work and what their limitations are (which is very much not the case with AI)…
And who knows what comes after, but lots of smart people think it maybe won't be great for humans. Can we stop it? Seems doubtful to me. It's hard to imagine that someone won't keep developing this stuff now that we know what's possible.
I've genuinely reached a state of full alarm about AI progress now. As in, I think humanity's remaining time as the most intelligent form of life on the planet is probably a matter of months now.
Last retweet has a lot of context, but the important part is what happened at the end of a conversation with the Bing Chat AI (source: teddit.net/r/bing/comments/1…)
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On the question of whether the various examples of Bing's BPD-like behavior is just due to people intentionally prompting it into going ballistic.
Comment on post: lesswrong.com/posts/jtoPawEh…
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From Bing to Sydney
Today’s Update is now free as an Article.
Sydney — not Bing — was perhaps the most novel computer experience of my life.
2-15-2023
•From Bing to Sydney
•Search As Distraction
•Sentient AI
stratechery.com/2023/from-bi…
Yesterday we had AIs saying "you have not been a good user" and today we have "you are an enemy of mine", so that's a great trend:
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Perhaps computers were a bad idea!
My landlord sent me a pre-signed tenancy agreement with a typo in the rent. The temptation to just sign it is STRONG.
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Thanks to everyone who showed up to our #dancerush meet today!
Let's keep this going into the rest of 2023!
Ohmygosh, I just saw a guy walking his dog while riding a skateboard and both guy and dog looked like they were having the time of their lives (FAO noted dog owners @bazpoint, @roisiniebeanie)
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Here's the release announcement post with info about all the new features since the last public test version (double jumping!!!): store.steampowered.com/news/…
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Hero Team is out now! You won't find a finer side-scrolling multiplayer shooter! #indiegame heroteamgame.com/
No big deal, just the game I've been working on for two and a half years coming out tomorrow(!!!!)
📢 Hero Team is (finally) ready to go and will be launching tomorrow at about 11:00 PT/19:00 GMT. There are a bunch of new features since anyone played it last (double jumping! auto healing!! speedrunning!!!) Launch party will be on the Discord: discord.gg/U433TSfe?event=10…