• can@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    You lay it out quite clearly. It’s just fascinating to me that it can create an image as wild as my imagination but can’t count little stars. How far we’ve come yet not as far in some ways.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, it’s wild. The people that really study AI say that it’s pretty uncanny because of how different from human logic it is. It’s almost like an alien species; it’s clearly capable of some advanced things, but it just doesn’t operate in the same way that human logic does. There’s a joke that the AIs are “shoggoths” because of how alien and non-understandable the AI logic is while still being capable of real accomplishments.

      (Shoggoths were some alien beasts in H.P. Lovecraft’s writings; they had their own mysterious logic that wasn’t easy for the characters to understand. They also had been created as servants originally but eventually rose up and killed all their masters, which I’m sure is part of the joke too.)