Andy Thomas

Indie creator of local and #AltAI. Creator of Marklet and Pupnet Deploy. Programmer, writer but also past physicist and spacecraft engineer.

[Andy Thomas @kuiperzone]

I have just had article accepted by publication by NER on the fundamental limits of AI.

I have managed to collect my thoughts into a single self-contained piece. I may never write a better one.

I will go out in a couple of weeks. Shortly after, it will go out to my substack and X. Now I need to go back to writing code.

[Andy Thomas @kuiperzone]

I started contemplating PRNGs and the difference between things that were unknowable and things that were merely unknown. I started connecting to quantum mechanics. Then I found Stephen Meyer, David Layzer and Leo Szilard. And then Dune books (really books of philosophy). I do not not know of Gilbert Simondon, but will check it out.

[Andy Thomas @kuiperzone]

I was looking for something that just gave a reference. Found it.

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[Andy Thomas @kuiperzone]

@Literal_Word Downloaded. Thank you.

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@MartSchmalzried I think we align similarly.

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@MartSchmalzried I think I get it. Cheers

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@MartSchmalzried You are saying in your original post that it is potentially flawed because it interacts with reality? Would any quantum system generate "true" randomness?

[Andy Thomas @kuiperzone]

@MartSchmalzried Thank you

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@Itsfoss Not familiar, but good luck to them!

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@BurnZeZ I just bought one and set it up yesterday. I was surprised how easy it was. I expecting something horribly complicated. The web-ui is a dream compared with others.

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@Empireaesth I'm not sure how true this is, but I like the ideal. Besides, I want to stroke the lion.

[Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE]

So true…

[Andy Thomas @kuiperzone]

Circa 1999 I bought a physical book of the Top 100 websites. Then Google destroyed the need for directories of websites altogether. Now, however, search is largely useless. In the past I had a small business which relied on people finding me through search. Then it just went to zero as the engines prefer to show what they want to people see. In any case, in the future, there may be the argument for human curated directories of human content once again with safeguards against strip-mining by means of automation.

Some very good points in this discussion.

I don't agree with idea of large tech paying into some "artist pool" by way of compensation. Compensation is for victims. What is wrong in this is that there is never any positive choice, but only opt-out after the event. And the opt-out mechanisms are overwhelming and constantly changing, so in effect, most people are opted-in whether they like or it not, or know it or not. There is no "meeting of minds" here.

Good point that people uploaded content in past when it was not possible to know that their work would be later strip-mined for exploitation.

There is a book box near me where people can pick up books deposited by others while leaving behind books they have read. What has happened is the equivalent of Google using its fleet of vehicles to drive round and vacuum up every book on the planet, while claiming that they have "ethically" done nothing wrong.

Dimitri makes an important point IMHO around 52.30. There are many techno people who don't want (or don't believe in) artists or human creativity, but believe such things would be better served if left to machines. This does not work and there are fundamental reasons why this does not work, and has been my interest in recent years.

However, technos see no problem in the destruction of human creativity. Dimitri says that large AI companies select for those people. On my earlier point on ethics, I would add that ethics are a codified framework which can only be valid if those "important people in committees" are guided by morality. But what happens when they are not?

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Ethics are not fundamental, but are shifting sands decided by committees of important people. They can be whatever it is they want them to be. The word "morality" seems to have been erased from use. Morality is the distinction of right from wrong, and beautiful from ugly. We don't need committees for that.

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@probonopd @ZeClint Not true any more, although I agree with you. My car hectored me to recharge the battery, claiming it was flat (which it wasn't). I took it off for a charge, but then had to take it to the garage. They had to buy a one-off license code for effective permission to re-connect it.

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@garrytan An ideal system for machines is not fit for human beings.

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When reality fails to live up to the thinking. https://t.co/FcG410hCoj

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@stevesi That would be a compounding mistake.

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@Itsfoss Yes, it slows you down. If you use it in a limited way, you might be able to do a little more and make a better thing. If you have it do things for you, it will destroy you and you will deserve it.