Forgive me. I'm still sorting out what the term artificial intelligence actually covers here in the 2020s, and where the phrase collapses.
This page shares working notes about it as best I can, for whatever they're worth. I honestly don’t know what I’ll think about any of this in a year. Given how quickly things seem to verge in unexpected directions, I expect to be wrong about plenty of it.
I'm still learning what I can and writing about it. I just want to share my thoughts on these machines. Don't take any of this as more than the tentative opinions of a newbie, a sort of topical vlog as I learn.
When it comes to robots, we definitely reacted differently to the prospect IRL than we ever did in our fiction.
A lot of my chatbot cards for SillyTavern and similar programs revolve around Lake Erie acting...eerie. Why!??
LLMs can code, sure, but what about holding conversations? Is it even a good idea to chat with LLMs? If nobody wrote it, why read it?
I've been a transhumanist for over twenty-five years, but why? How did it happen, and where does artificial intelligence fit into the picture? Do large language models?
I don't believe generative AI is sentient, but what are they? When people start to believe they're conscious, what's up? Whyyyyyy??!!!
☣︎︎︎ Tower of the Wizard
The assumption is that AI really is as bad (and can be destroyed like) as (say) Sauron or the Empire in Star Wars. We're all leaning on fiction at a particularly volatile time in history.