[FRIAM] AI etiquette, Marijuana research
cody dooderson
d00d3rs0n at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 23:38:05 EDT 2022
It looks like fiction will never be the same. Here is a list of books
written by gpt3, https://lifearchitect.ai/books-by-ai/ .
I haven't read any of these.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2022, 7:39 PM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I would not consider Asimov's robots to be "flat and empty," but they are
> an anomaly in that regard. They did, after all, invent the Zeroth Law of
> Robotics all by themselves.
>
> davew
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022, at 2:18 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
>
> I feel like this is yet another reminder that humans, by and large, lack
> imagination.
>
> The reason robots in sci-fi are flat and empty is because sci-fi is
> re-telling Descartes’s assertion that everything except humans (probably,
> sotto voce, except him) are flat and affectless. Maybe even more than
> machines are that, we imprint that on the paradigm of machine. It’s just
> the age-old thing of people needing to feel singular and important, and
> using vehicles like religion to systematize their neediness. That sci-fi
> prides itself on being imaginative, while re-telling the same small
> portfolio of bible stories and other similar sources is human
> Dunning-Krugerness on display.
>
> A world free of all that corruption probably has lots of dimensions of
> possibility that humans will just drive by without noticing because their
> minds are elsewhere.
>
> Of course, each of your detailed points I recognize is true and a good one,
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2022, at 2:05 AM, cody dooderson <d00d3rs0n at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It is surprising that AI is so creative. Many science fiction robots were
> calculated but uncreative. They are like Data from star trek, basically a
> calculator with very little creative potential. But it seems like AI, as it
> develops, is actually more creative than its human counterparts.
> Here are a few examples that come to mind. AlphaGo beat the grandmaster,
> Lee Sedol, with moves that the grandmaster had never seen before. The art
> world is seeing some very cool stuff coming out of trained neural networks
> like Dall-e2*. In the Sony article, they talk about a trick where the AI
> put a wheel on the grass to initiate a controlled slide. Do you think that
> modern Neural networks will give any insight into the nature of creativity?
>
>
>
>
> * Dall-e2 https://www.reddit.com/r/weirddalle/
>
> Cody Smith
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 7:19 AM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:
>
> Two articles from MIT Tech Review.
>
>
> https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/19/1056176/sonys-racing-ai-destroyed-its-human-competitors-by-being-nice-and-fast/
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> Training AI drivers for Gran Turismo racing, it turns out that they can
> learn to physically drive faster than people, but they're too aggressive to
> win head to head races because they drive the competition off the road. So
> you need to train them to observe the norms of the competition, by
> including penalties for crashes, bumps, cut-offs, etc, into the training.
> They still drive faster than people, and the way they drive is a bit
> disturbing to watch.
>
> [So if you were training AI drivers for political races, would the norms
> come from established law or where the voters could be persuaded to mark
> their polls?]
>
>
> https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/20/1056219/weed-influencer-and-scientist-feud-over-cannabis-hyperemesis-syndrome/
> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.technologyreview.com%2f2022%2f07%2f20%2f1056219%2fweed-influencer-and-scientist-feud-over-cannabis-hyperemesis-syndrome%2f&c=E,1,V2LEaPWTwH3T7VFjGfU7bcnhh0onNBmvFckXpaLoRhfL1fS-X5j4_shbXCArwd2na4pUY52IMOtyZK5VLSHLt7YD7qfxOsYsys64-ZDOhZIodihFmXY1Zg,,&typo=1>
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> The scientist and the instagram influencer attempt to study the genetic
> causes of CHS (cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome) and the influencer blows
> up the study when she declares that the scientist is a shill on her
> channel. Ah the joys of decision making with uncertainty and cognitive
> bias.
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