8 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

Elon is saying we will have our own R2D2 / C3P0 personal robot buddies.

 

It's almost like a hybrid between a pet and a real human next to you.

 

Not sure when it will happen, but that should be super freaky cool. 

 

 

 

As you say, since it is half pet...

I won't allow it in the house.

It can charge overnight in the garage.

 

I have not much use for a robot, except maybe to assemble widgets or something.

 

Anyway, it's better to have one's very own human slave.

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I like AI, as it is, or maybe about twice as smart and capable as it now is.

AI is very useful for many things, either residing on the phone or on the desktop.

 

20 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

Do you agree with both statements/questions in the headline of this Topic?

 

Do you disagree?

 

This is not a Yes/No questionnaire.

 

These are Essay Questions.

 

Therefore, get out your Blue Books, and please reply with your thoughts.

 

This is not a pass/fail exercise, obviously.

 

Rather, this is one of those very deep philosophical Topics.

 

Please do your best.

 

You will be judged by your writing, and your creativity, as is always the case, around here.

 

Try your best, even if you might not, at first, think you are up to the task of thinking.

 

Thank you.

 

Best regards,

As always….

Gamma

I've never really tried living in the future, and living in the past is inevitably depressing, since the bits that I choose to live in were better than the present.  Maybe I should spend more time remembering the miner's strike, the three-day week, waking up in traction...

I reckon living in the present is the best, and the more that we can do it, the better we'll be. 

AI is not a problem!!

 

The real problems are the same as they have ever been and will continue to be:

 

HUMANS!

20 hours ago, save the frogs said:

What is your P(Doom)? (probability of doom) ... Everyone needs to come up with a number.

 

 

 

 

 

9/10

1 hour ago, StreetCowboy said:

I've never really tried living in the future, and living in the past is inevitably depressing, since the bits that I choose to live in were better than the present.  Maybe I should spend more time remembering the miner's strike, the three-day week, waking up in traction...

I reckon living in the present is the best, and the more that we can do it, the better we'll be. 

 

From the headline, one can surmise that I believe AI makes life far better, while we are living in the present presently.

However, as well, I believe that, within the next five to 10 years, the disadvantages of the creation of AI will far outweigh today's advantages.

So I agree with you that it is far better to live in the present presently, rather than to live in the present five to ten years from now.

This makes much sense to me, just judging from what I think I see and that which has been trending in AI progress.

 

Great News....IF true:

 

Microsoft may have just killed OpenAI.

(Not Sammy Boy, unfortunately. No I don't hate Sammy THAT much. I just want him kept out of ALL AI projects. He is dangerous to the movement.)

 

By the way, this vid is produced by someone with a bit of Academic AI research.

And, his AI videos are quite good.

He is some college prof from Georgia Tech, or some other uni.

 

 

I have been praying, almost daily, that Sammy will get the boot (for the second time), but permanently this time.

 

 

Note:  And yes, of course, I have always thought that most everything was based on Physics. And, as our understanding of Science continues to progress, this idea that all is based on Physics becomes even clearer.  How can one even understand biochemistry, for example, without understanding Physics, and energy?  Truly impossible.

 

Physics is not a difficult science, by the way.

 

The best time to be alive was before smartphones. 

 

I feel sad for kids nowadays, just zombified 24/7, the same as their parents, probably. The same as their children will be, and their grandkids. 

4 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Great News....IF true:

 

Microsoft may have just killed OpenAI.

(Not Sammy Boy, unfortunately. No I don't hate Sammy THAT much. I just want him kept out of ALL AI projects. He is dangerous to the movement.)

 

By the way, this vid is produced by someone with a bit of Academic AI research.

And, his AI videos are quite good.

He is some college prof from Georgia Tech, or some other uni.

 

 

I have been praying, almost daily, that Sammy will get the boot (for the second time), but permanently this time.

 

 

Note:  And yes, of course, I have always thought that most everything was based on Physics. And, as our understanding of Science continues to progress, this idea that all is based on Physics becomes even clearer.  How can one even understand biochemistry, for example, without understanding Physics, and energy?  Truly impossible.

 

Physics is not a difficult science, by the way.

 

Back in the day, Long Tall Thin Andy put forward the view that there was only Physics, and History, and their derivative fields of study.

4 hours ago, Packer said:

The best time to be alive was before smartphones. 

 

I feel sad for kids nowadays, just zombified 24/7, the same as their parents, probably. The same as their children will be, and their grandkids. 

 

Here is a Gemini News Flash for you....

Gemini has just become the lowest cost most powerful AI....it seems.

 

Anyway, this particular writer CONSISTENTLY provides some of the highest quality vids about the nature of AI and the progress of various AI models.

He is always worth the time to watch his well-thought-out content...for sure...

 

 

Someday, soon, we will be able to lock the school children in closets with just a computer display attached to Gemini, or Grok preferably, and the AI will be able to teach these kids from Grade one to Grade 12, far better than most public schools in the USA.

 

So, no worries, I guess.

 

I’d like to say that I got in on the ground floor of Artificial Intelligence, but I think we had to take the stairs or lift up to their Christmas Party. I attribute my lack of recollection to antiquity rather than excess, but I could be wrong on that score, too.  My one recollection, which may be a misrecollection, was that my mate and I were the only undergraduates there.

4 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Back in the day, Long Tall Thin Andy put forward the view that there was only Physics, and History, and their derivative fields of study.

 

Yes, I think this is correct.

A higher-resolution study of the cell, for example, demonstrates this is true.

Chemistry is Physics, for sure.

 

Commenting on TV is Physics?

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Yes, I think this is correct.

A higher-resolution study of the cell, for example, demonstrates this is true.

Chemistry is Physics, for sure.

 

Commenting on TV is Physics?

Commenting on TV is like shouting at the television and drinking Irn Bru while watching the Calcutta Cup replay  - completely pointless, but if it wasn’t, you’d feel guilty about not having done your best

16 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Commenting on TV is like shouting at the television and drinking Irn Bru while watching the Calcutta Cup replay  - completely pointless, but if it wasn’t, you’d feel guilty about not having done your best

 

That's also correct.

I never worry or break-out in a cold sweat when adding comments to TV.

 

I don't know about other members, however I have always found TV to be most forgiving of comments made by me.

 

5 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Great News....IF true:

 

Microsoft may have just killed OpenAI.

(Not Sammy Boy, unfortunately. No I don't hate Sammy THAT much. I just want him kept out of ALL AI projects. He is dangerous to the movement.)

 

By the way, this vid is produced by someone with a bit of Academic AI research.

And, his AI videos are quite good.

He is some college prof from Georgia Tech, or some other uni.

 

 

I have been praying, almost daily, that Sammy will get the boot (for the second time), but permanently this time.

 

 

Note:  And yes, of course, I have always thought that most everything was based on Physics. And, as our understanding of Science continues to progress, this idea that all is based on Physics becomes even clearer.  How can one even understand biochemistry, for example, without understanding Physics, and energy?  Truly impossible.

 

Physics is not a difficult science, by the way.

 

Some of these YouTube creators would be well advised to spend less time talking and more time listening to the videos they're reviewing.  It's almost as if he thinks he needs to repeat everything that will be said.  

And, for the Students among us, I asked Gemini how Gemini has changed on my desktop after this week's Google I/O...

 

 

 

I had always had greater faith in Gemini, compared to Sammy-Boy's ChatGPT.

The universe rewards GOOD, and punishes EVIL, I guess.

 

Now, we are seeing that I am right, once again, Folks.

 

(It seems that Gemini PRO 2.5 is now showing up on my desktop computers. Last week it was Gemini 2.5 Advanced.)

1 minute ago, jas007 said:

Some of these YouTube creators would be well advised to spend less time talking and more time listening to the videos they're reviewing.  It's almost as if he thinks he needs to repeat everything that will be said.  

 

Yes.

I do a gree.

He was talking down to us, this time.

Sorry for that, a bit.

 

OK. Then why not try this one.

You will not be disappointed....

 

 

For sure, this creator does a lot of work for each of his vids.

Trust me...