The thing I find most suspicious/fishy/smelly about all the current hype around Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT is that it follows, as night follows day, about six months after the bottom dropped out of the cryptocurrency scam bubble.
This is not a coincidence.
Hucksters are chasing the sweet VC/private equity money that has been flushed out of crypto, and AI is the new hotness all of a sudden.
If you're thinking about investing now? Don't: it's too late and you'll be the target of a grift.
@jnavarra @cstross Charlie pointed out at 34C3 that capital-C Corporations *are* the paperclip AIs that AI ethicists have warned us about.
They have ostensible goals (provide services/products), proxy goals (shareholder value) and internal goals (whatever management currently chases), none of which neccesarily align with human values or even continued human existence. The internal workings are utterly incomprehensible. They're also playing the AI Box experiment (corporate laws) *and we lost*.
@cstross @jnavarra Something close, at least, to the best of my memory.
Wouldn't even be surprised if it was one of your blog posts, honestly... (was it?)
Here's two more recent articles that make the point in more space than my instance gives me:
(2017) https://patternsofmeaning.com/2017/11/30/ai-has-already-taken-over-its-called-the-corporation/
(2020) https://indica.medium.com/how-ai-already-rules-the-world-3b170031b9ba
Point being: we don't need computer AI to get screwed over by an AI.
@cstross YES! That was it! I did see your Congress keynote.
And now I'm just a teensy bit embarrassed.
Being able to actually remember sources of ideas would be a pretty neat superpower.
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