WordApe

Award winning author of science fiction and fantasy, graphic artist, Aussie who lived 10+ years in the USA.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

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[WordApe @BadenChant]

@NataliaAntonova Believe it or not I wrote a story about this very thing. Even got nominated for an award. Story is called “Dragon Drops” published in this anthology: https://t.co/46gq18Mtuz

[WordApe @BadenChant]

@tszzl To provide desire and agency. Machines (quite literally) want for nothing.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

Australia needs to start thinking about forking a frontier model. We’re never going to bake our own, but if we want to minimise sovereign AI risk we need to be able to host and operate eg GTP 6 locally. Call it GTP 6 Koala. Getting the USG to agree will be the real hurdle.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

In the future being cut off from AI (as the US did to everyone this weekend) will be as consequential as being cut off from oil is today. Australia needs sovereign AI as much as it needs sovereign energy.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

We are asleep. Aus cut off from one of the most consequential technologies on the planet and it rates 1 article way down the abc news page. It’s not even a salient issue. And people are worried about Aussie sovereignty because of a sub base? Cancel Aukus. Invest in sovereign AI.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

@mattyglesias lol. Normies completely sleeping on AI.

[Stephen Higgins @HigginsStephenM]

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[WordApe @BadenChant]

@Noahpinion Douglas Adams answered that ages ago. The only debate was whether the actual inflection point was coming down out of the trees or leaving the ocean.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

@Noahpinion The ancients loved cunning heroes like Ulysses. They don’t seem to have considered what we would call book smarts to be much use at all. Even prominent examples like Archimedes are played for laughs. The answer to the OP’s question is probably in that somewhere.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

@mmjukic The ancients preferred cunning over intelligence. You can be quite cunning without being ‘intelligent’. Eg people are hunted and killed by animals all the time, or take Trump who isn’t intelligent in any egg headed sense but is highly cunning.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

@tszzl Sci fi writers have almost unanimously concluded that machine consciousness will be commoditised. From R2D2 to Asimov‘s robots to Baxter’s mining probes. If true it drains machine consciousness of its contentiousness. Unless a ‘free the robots’ movement eventuates anyway.

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[WordApe @BadenChant]

@Noahpinion It’s a different kind of intelligence? AI will brute force things in a way that would make smart humans want to kill themselves.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

@w283790251 @Noahpinion I think the US is probably richer and probably even pulling ahead of everyone else, the debt thing just seemed like a weird omission to me in that debate. Owing an extra 20 trillion has to mean something, right?

[WordApe @BadenChant]

@Noahpinion Charlie Stross often talks about how hard it is to write near future sci fi in a world where tech is moving so fast. Anything set tenish years in the future is likely to be mugged by reality, anything set farther ahead than that is at this point almost unimaginable.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

@Issybeatz_ so many creative professions are just this but replacing the AI with some 25 year old. Art Directors for instance.

[WordApe @BadenChant]

@alz_zyd_ https://t.co/JbBz5T7DTX

[WordApe @BadenChant]

@LandBeforeSlime @Noahpinion Yes they are, I agree.