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> Why not just connect two shitty models together and tell them to hallucinate to each other and skip the whole need to think about anything. Western countries

> Why not just connect two shitty models together and tell them to hallucinate to each other and skip the whole need to think about anything. Western countries have better conditions than much of the world for a variety of reasons, but among them is education and culture. Raising the next generation to outsource all thinking to AI and form a culture around influencing people 45 seconds at a time will destroy those prerequisites to our better lifestyle, and it will be downhill from there. You might argue that the AI can be a mentor or can guide society appropriately. That's not wholly untrue, but if AI is "a bicycle for the mind", you still have to have the willingness and vision to go someplace with it. If you've never thought for yourself, never learned anything independently, I just don't see how people will avoid using AI to be "stupid faster".

blibble 1y ago
> Raising the next generation to outsource all thinking to AI and form a culture around influencing people 45 seconds at a time will destroy those prerequisites to our better lifestyle, and it will be downhill from there. absolutely up until 2022 I was optimistic for the future our current big problems: climate change, nuclear proliferation, global pandemics, dictatorships, antibiotic resistance, all seemed solvable over the long term "AI" however is different previously all human societies placed a high value on education this is now gone, if anything spending time educating yourself is now a negative I don't see how the species survives this new reality over the long term
skeezyboy 1y ago
> You might argue that the AI can be a mentor or can guide society appropriately its a next word predictor trained off datasets. > Raising the next generation to outsource all thinking to AI and form a culture around influencing people 45 seconds at a time will destroy those prerequisites to our better lifestyle, and it will be downhill from there. they said the same about tv, youtube and even printed books. short length videos now apparently are the new evil (somehow). quick question, why was nobody complaining about these exact same "engagement" algorithms 20 years ago? Why only when tiktok short form videos appear? Popularity based ranking was in search engines decades ago but nobody cared then. No cocomelon back then, coincidence?

blibble 1y ago

> Raising the next generation to outsource all thinking to AI and form a culture around influencing people 45 seconds at a time will destroy those prerequisites to our better lifestyle, and it will be downhill from there. absolutely up until 2022 I was optimistic for the future our current big problems: climate change, nuclear proliferation, global pandemics, dictatorships, antibiotic resistance, all seemed solvable over the long term "AI" however is different previously all human societies placed a high value on education this is now gone, if anything spending time educating yourself is now a negative I don't see how the species survives this new reality over the long term

skeezyboy 1y ago

> You might argue that the AI can be a mentor or can guide society appropriately its a next word predictor trained off datasets. > Raising the next generation to outsource all thinking to AI and form a culture around influencing people 45 seconds at a time will destroy those prerequisites to our better lifestyle, and it will be downhill from there. they said the same about tv, youtube and even printed books. short length videos now apparently are the new evil (somehow). quick question, why was nobody complaining about these exact same "engagement" algorithms 20 years ago? Why only when tiktok short form videos appear? Popularity based ranking was in search engines decades ago but nobody cared then. No cocomelon back then, coincidence?