Claude has most certainly not achieved consciousness, but now I am questioning if Dario has lost his sentience.
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Claude has most certainly not achieved consciousness, but now I am questioning if Dario has lost his sentience.
“We have principles but they're negotiable.”
— Sam Altman
A gentle reminder that contemporary neural networks are only an abstraction built upon Boolean logic
And that said neural networks are only an echo of a whisper of what organic neurons are.
As computing weaves itself into the interstitial spaces of civilization, increasingly every line of code represent an ethical and moral decision.
And now, what we see unfolding in real time with regard to the Department of Defense’s decisions regarding the use of AI in warfare encompasses every one of these elements, particularly the last one.
This is the nature of development, and why hardware and software and systems engineering remain a very human problem to which we must apply all our knowledge and talent.
Finally, there are moral and ethical issues. There are many things we can build out of hardware and software, but our shared humanity requires us to examine if we should build them.
And then there are economic realities. Our dreams may be expansive, but in the end bringing them to life may be more expensive to build and to operate that we can afford.
Organizational issues rise to consideration. One developer can do remarkable things, but to release systems that are durable, that are resilient, and that work at global elastic scale requires a team.
Design and then architecture are the next challenge. Weaving algorithms and data into systems that are functional, understandable, maintainable, and that can evolve calls us to the exquisite dance between art and science, compelling us to push the limits of our human creativity.
Next, there is the challenge of computability. We must turn theory into algorithms, and at scale we must make those algorithms fast and efficient.
First, there are the laws of physics. We cannot send information faster than the speed of light. There are fundamental limits as to the amount of information we can store in a given space. Thermodynamics presents considerable engineering challenges particularly as we craft smaller devices.
There exists a sequence of barriers through which we must pass to make it so.
In computing, we take imagination and make it manifest in the form of software and hardware.
Bravo, Anthropic, for drawing the line.
Oh, and this reminds that that now it’s time for me to finish filing my claim against you for illegally using every one of my books to train your LLM.
Well the good news, I suppose, is that at least you have some moral lines you won’t cross.
At sea
Move along now; there’s nothing to see here
Ever had one of those days when you wake and find that all mimsy were the borogoves?
Today is one of those days.
Human language needs a new pronoun, something whereby an AI may identify itself to its users.
When, in conversation, a chatbot says to me “I did this thing”, I - the human - am always bothered by the presumption of its self-anthropomorphizatuon.
At sea
Current reading
Public service announcement:
I am very open for rational discourse here, but if your responses are largely from an LLM, this is a clear indication to me that you have surrendered your humanity and are incapable of well-reasoned conversation.
Sunset
I do not fear the rise of superintelligence.
I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.
The most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs was to get rid of all the software.
— Gilfoyle, Silicon Valley
