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*.
Edited to give the proper source.
Video and transcript:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html
Charlie Stross
John
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