It looks like fiction will never be the same. Here is a list of books written by gpt3, https://lifearchitect.ai/books-by-ai/ . I haven't read any of these.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2022, 7:39 PM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > I would not consider Asimov's robots to be "flat and empty," but they are > an anomaly in that regard. They did, after all, invent the Zeroth Law of > Robotics all by themselves. > > davew > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022, at 2:18 PM, David Eric Smith wrote: > > I feel like this is yet another reminder that humans, by and large, lack > imagination. > > The reason robots in sci-fi are flat and empty is because sci-fi is > re-telling Descartes’s assertion that everything except humans (probably, > sotto voce, except him) are flat and affectless. Maybe even more than > machines are that, we imprint that on the paradigm of machine. It’s just > the age-old thing of people needing to feel singular and important, and > using vehicles like religion to systematize their neediness. That sci-fi > prides itself on being imaginative, while re-telling the same small > portfolio of bible stories and other similar sources is human > Dunning-Krugerness on display. > > A world free of all that corruption probably has lots of dimensions of > possibility that humans will just drive by without noticing because their > minds are elsewhere. > > Of course, each of your detailed points I recognize is true and a good one, > > Eric > > > > On Jul 21, 2022, at 2:05 AM, cody dooderson <d00d3r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is surprising that AI is so creative. Many science fiction robots were > calculated but uncreative. They are like Data from star trek, basically a > calculator with very little creative potential. But it seems like AI, as it > develops, is actually more creative than its human counterparts. > Here are a few examples that come to mind. AlphaGo beat the grandmaster, > Lee Sedol, with moves that the grandmaster had never seen before. The art > world is seeing some very cool stuff coming out of trained neural networks > like Dall-e2*. In the Sony article, they talk about a trick where the AI > put a wheel on the grass to initiate a controlled slide. Do you think that > modern Neural networks will give any insight into the nature of creativity? > > > > > * Dall-e2 https://www.reddit.com/r/weirddalle/ > > Cody Smith > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 7:19 AM Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > > Two articles from MIT Tech Review. > > > https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/19/1056176/sonys-racing-ai-destroyed-its-human-competitors-by-being-nice-and-fast/ > <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.technologyreview.com%2f2022%2f07%2f19%2f1056176%2fsonys-racing-ai-destroyed-its-human-competitors-by-being-nice-and-fast%2f&c=E,1,sW_uqrRPOXBSOBOKyAZBXmUeEC_gAg6bC8gm1INQST-ojGhCL2hs6hZ0n3OXOMaE29ZvHzCImJ-clJq2975O6Z7VJXWF-auEZX7UaV_rfFo7jCerKI3uQrTt&typo=1> > > Training AI drivers for Gran Turismo racing, it turns out that they can > learn to physically drive faster than people, but they're too aggressive to > win head to head races because they drive the competition off the road. So > you need to train them to observe the norms of the competition, by > including penalties for crashes, bumps, cut-offs, etc, into the training. > They still drive faster than people, and the way they drive is a bit > disturbing to watch. > > [So if you were training AI drivers for political races, would the norms > come from established law or where the voters could be persuaded to mark > their polls?] > > > https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/20/1056219/weed-influencer-and-scientist-feud-over-cannabis-hyperemesis-syndrome/ > <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.technologyreview.com%2f2022%2f07%2f20%2f1056219%2fweed-influencer-and-scientist-feud-over-cannabis-hyperemesis-syndrome%2f&c=E,1,V2LEaPWTwH3T7VFjGfU7bcnhh0onNBmvFckXpaLoRhfL1fS-X5j4_shbXCArwd2na4pUY52IMOtyZK5VLSHLt7YD7qfxOsYsys64-ZDOhZIodihFmXY1Zg,,&typo=1> > > The scientist and the instagram influencer attempt to study the genetic > causes of CHS (cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome) and the influencer blows > up the study when she declares that the scientist is a shill on her > channel. 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