Ai chatbots are only smart at things you don’t understand. For those that you’re an expert in, you quickly realize Ai is pretty dumb and constantly hallucinating on shrooms.
Yeah I was gonna say something like this too. The only thing AI can really do is talk very confidently and I maybe that’s all it takes for some people.
Someone I often describe as the most gullible person I’ve ever met who will believe basically anything you tell them if you do it in an authoritative manner is extremely enthusiastic about AI.
It works! See, ben shapibo, stephen crowder, laura loomer
Counterpoint: Videos of chatbots breaking rules of chess like hallucinating pieces and flying through their own pieces is funny
We don’t need to boil gallons of water for that, though. Just go to /r/anarchychess like the rest of us.
That’s what intelligence looks like if you’re a tech bro, because that’s what they’re all like. They’re all easily impressed by people who bullshit very confidently about things they don’t actually understand because they’re all constantly confidently bullshitting about things they don’t understand. Since they all also believe they’re god’s smartest boys, that must be what intelligence is.
“But that day isn’t today. Please keep giving me more money.”
Join me at TrulyRemarkableRemarkableRemarkable.ai where AI is doing non-specified and unexplained but truly remarkable remarkable remarkable things. You have no idea how remarkable.
I’m sure this is 100% true for people like Sam Altman specifically. He certainly doesn’t know anyone smarter than a chatbot.
There are two people in my life I’d say are the smartest people I know. One is a chemical engineering PhD who has an uncanny ability to do math and science stuff. It comes naturally to her in a way I’ve never seen with another person. She’s also incredibly bad at managing interpersonal relationships, seems to exclusively date guys who are stalkers, and she’s prone to weird schemes where she tries to get her colleagues fired over very small things. She doesn’t get angry or have outbursts, but she does seem to enjoy arguing a lot. She can be professional but it seems like she never turns that off, so she comes across as very cold to some people who don’t know her well. And maybe she does have mental health problems but I wouldn’t trust her to do something like help organize a birthday party.
The other smartest person I know is also my best friend. She’s the most chill person I’ve ever met and has an uncanny ability to read a person. She’s also good at impressions, like she can mimic a person’s mannerisms and inflections within minutes of meeting them. She’s so chill she has no idea about things like who the president is, or what’s going on in the news. None of that. She’s just into musicals and making DIY perfume and going to green day concerts. She’s incredibly bad with money and frequently has to ask me to help pay her phone bill or whatever. And I do because I love and cherish her a lot. I also would not trust her to organize a birthday but that’s because she’d dive way too deep into it. She’d obsess and plan for it for a month and get frustrated, even if I tell her she doesn’t have to be perfect. She’s too empathetic and it messes her up.
I don’t know where I was going with this honestly but it made me think of two of my friends. I guess I wouldn’t want either of them as an AI. If either were made smarter I feel like both would collapse from pressure or self-doubt or something. It wouldn’t be helpful.
You don’t need your friends anymore. You have Grok. It’s remarkable.
The worst part is that these predictions aren’t particularly deep, every single one of them are basic ass science fiction tropes people have been writing about since the 70’s.
“This is a very remarkable thing” hits the same as “I am very smart”
Yeah no, the research is a million miles from General Intelligence
These dorks are just worldbuilding and calling it a prediction
“Isn’t this exciting?! Compooper will do everything for you and you will be forced to rely on compoo-“
FUCK. YOU.
I hate Sam Altman almost as much as I hate Elon Musk. One person has destroyed much of the Internet, with the help of the others that are trying to keep up with him. Most of the things I love are being washed away in a deluge of generated noise. I’m going to go live in a cabin in the woods if this doesn’t stop.
I’m going to go live in a cabin in the woods if this doesn’t stop.
Me too.
I saw an online comment by a non-native English speaker that there are very few squirrels in Brazilian cities. That surprised me because I thought city squirrels were a worldwide thing. I told myself to pretend that google didn’t exist because googling would only annoy me and give me shit. But I didn’t listen to myself and I googled. And I googled. And I googled some more. I must have spent about 10+ minutes on what used to be a pretty simple sort of google search.
At one point google lead to me to a pointless Reddit thread with a stupid question and annoyed replies. The thread was 6 years old and it had 8 upvotes. I’m convinced at this point that google is actively destroying search so you do one of two things…
- Keep searching so google can serve up more and more and more ads even though I never see that shit because use ad blockers.
or ideally for google - eventually over time…
- You’ll give up and read the garbage AI summaries. Which also keeps you on google.
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I did learn that squirrels were intentionally introduced to American cities. But that was about it.
It’s the first one, there was a whole thing in 2019 where the ads org took over and started making search base their decisions on ad revenue.
It’s hard to find the news story these days, here’s one copy, not sure if it’s the best
I don’t think you can discount #2. Google wants a absolute max sized captive audience. Some people will happily eat the AI slop and stop there.
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Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one.
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Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary.
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Grok what is 2.5 plus 2.5
4.10! Wow! You truly are the smartest thing in the world
“What do you mean workers? This message wasn’t for workers. I was talking to people, you know real humans like Musk, Zuckerberg, Rowling, actual human beings not workers. They won’t have anything in their pockets God willing. Disgusting… Workers. Ha.”
attention investors, digital god is almost here, get in on the ground floor or be left behind forever
Translation: Someday soon you will pay 200usd/mo for ChatGPT Pro
and they’ll still somehow be losing money on every customer
I can imagine a redditor saying…
Look, ChatGPT+ is a damn bargain. You get aiWritr, aiReadr, aiThinkr, aiMovieMakr, aiDirectr, aiActr, aiCGI, aiSongwritr, aiSingr, aiGuitarist which is awesomeness (and other instruments too of course), aiArtist, aiMashup+. And stuff like aiPaintr, aiPoetrMakr, and aiGF - if you’re into that. Plus the VRplugin can make stuff like aiGF more… um… interactive.
aiGF - if you’re into that
“Oh yeah, some people like gifs instead of image macros, what a funny remark!”
Plus the VRplugin can make stuff like aiGF more… um… interactive.
"Interactive VR gifs? Seems like a tech bro thing, but I can see the ap-- "
You jest, but
(The aforementioned $200/mo plan does exist as well. OpenAI is not good at names, with o1->o3->o4->o3-pro and ChatGPT plus and ChatGPT pro being very different plans.)
OpenAI is not good at names
They should hire me. I’ll work for cheap*.
*Relatively speaking.
Cheap compared to ML researcher TC for sure. You could write a book on the culture of OpenAI (and Anthropic, although that’s a bit different) — a ton of employees there genuinely think that they will create AGI and bring the singularity. From what I’ve read, it’s a cult-like environment of very highly paid people who are big into effective altruism and effective altruism. Not quite to the degree of the Zizians, but closer than I’d like.
