Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

stumbled onto this via bluesky and thought it was pretty interesting: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-April/225407.html

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreibhlmcgsb6japqhcvgakjvqq5jb4iqka5tn3qxjydoxpyanffybb4@jpeg

In my advocacy class in law school in the late 90s, we were given a fact pattern where the driver, "Johnny" (or his estate I guess), was suing a railroad for a collision with a train at an allegedly unsafe RR crossing. The dispute was whether the driver hit the train or the train hit the drive. My friend's closing statement was, "If Johnny hit the train, you must abstain."

Wait, what thread is this, lol?

https://i.imgur.com/NMwfvUT.jpeg

I'm Bootus

Claude 3

There's an AI named Claude?! Geez, now I'm kinda feeling sorry** I released my crude DOS-based chatbot named Claude into the public domain back in the late 1990s. Maybe I could've dug at least a few thousand out of it by keeping the name under copyright and selling it to the purveyors of nu-Claude.

**purely imaginary

https://archive.org/details/CLD110_zip

Dat's my baby!

Doesn’t run very well for me in the in-browser emulator but i was able to tell it my name. Funny that someone uploaded it just a couple weeks ago!

wow, I had that on my...IBM AT? 8th grade stoners loved it.

And he believes that God believes in Caude

* Claude

I had that on my...IBM AT? 8th grade stoners loved it.

Thanks for that comment!

I wrote it as a way to understand programming an interactive text interface in DOS, but the 'chatbot' responses I gave it were only designed to engage the young and easily amused. That's why I made it free for use in elementary and secondary schools. Eventually I got a few dozen postcards from kids telling me they liked Claude. They included cards from (off the top of my head) Germany, Argentina and Singapore. It got around.

truly another entry in the Aimless lore file

"Just give me some tea and I can sit on bibs all day"

best conv I've had with anyone all day tbf

but nice work Aimless!

Incredible

Bill Gates: "640KB should be enough for anyone."

If you had 640K you were a "power user."

wow, incredible !

Amazing aimless! Now release all the aimless lore! ❤️

Heh that’s great, Aimless!!

I'm glad y'all like it. If you play with it a while you'll quickly figure out that it's just a somewhat cleverly disguised game of Mad Libs with a very crude and limited ability to interpret the gist of your inputs, so long as they're simple enough.

Some of these Claude responses sound like Basement Tapes lyrics.

Loving Aimless Claude, made my day. Didn't work on Safari but does seem to work on Chrome.

having fun using https://sdk.vercel.ai/ to compare different llms. pretty good job from gemini 1.5 here tbh.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ysiafe3423w76elr4haecnjh/bafkreifosdm6r57ckc5cupe4l3nmq3irammk4b37tgvu2ddeas3sjatyiy@jpeg

V good

I mean it's pretty lifelike but the uncanny valley aspect still squacks me out. its like the data it trained on was mostly commercials.

Incredible stuff! Microsoft's new Model can produce Deepfake with 1-photo and 1-audio!!!! pic.twitter.com/PlNsMxjkdz

— 1LittleCoder💻 (@1littlecoder) April 17, 2024

the correlation between the vocal inflections and the changes of facial expression and head tilts are pretty impressive and yet I wonder what the design team thought the eventual application would be, because I can't think of any that aren't bad for humans.

the design team isn’t thinking about humans. starting to truly believe that most people in involved in this sector don’t think or care about humans tbh

fwiw from the caring about humans pov doesnt seem like theyre going to release this its just research, which obvs isnt nothing but its also not giving the program to scammers et al

the design team isn’t thinking about humans. starting to truly believe that most people in involved in this sector don’t think or care about humans tbh

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table)

certainly the people with the money and the power don't.

maybe i'm cynical, but i'm not sure deepfakes will really change anything. i feel like in this world, there's a tendency for people to believe what they want to believe - "evidence" is just taken to confirm or deny pre-existing emotional narratives. or maybe i'm the reverse of cynical - if someone is truly going to critically evaluate information, that includes considering the source. maybe i'm wrong here, though. "change my mind"! lol.

someone said that the biggest effect of deepfakes wont be people believing that fake things are real rather that real things are fake which sounds right to me

“it’s just research” ok so research something else

“welp, gotta research this AI stuff, what else am I gonna do?”

I mean we're going to pretty soon reach a point where generated photos or video footage will be indistinguishable from real photos and video. The logical step for a lot of people will be to just not believe anything anymore. We're heading toward a dark age.

“it’s just research” ok so research something else

― brimstead, Thursday, April 18, 2024 10:50 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean youre not making a point that i didnt

lotta deepfake posts in here

deep takes

To me, VFX in movies already jumped the shark of being too realistic for its own good -- the new Dune looks faker and takes you out of the narrative than the matte paintings + puppetry of Lynch's version even though objectively it's much less so.

last week i learned that hollywood still uses a lot of backdrops rather than greenscreen but instead of being painted the scenery is photographed at very high resolution and then screenprinted onto the backdrop and lit, and it looks better and more natural than greenscreen

who told me that? jackie coogan’s grandson. (i wish morbs was around to hear this!)

lol

To me, VFX in movies already jumped the shark of being too realistic for its own good -- the new Dune looks faker and takes you out of the narrative than the matte paintings + puppetry of Lynch's version even though objectively it's much less so.

weird, to me the new Dune was one of the rare recent hollywood movies that had actually good looking VFX.

I mean we're going to pretty soon reach a point where generated photos or video footage will be indistinguishable from real photos and video. The logical step for a lot of people will be to just not believe anything anymore. We're heading toward a dark age.

― silverfish

i mean this is something i already see happening... there's a huge set of people who are in complete denial of reality and have been for a while... "fake news, fake news, fake news", is ai going to make that worse?

here's a question: what can be done about it (another question: what is 'it')

the only answer i've found is to go in the opposite direction: learn or relearn how to do make and appreciate things that are handmade by humans, and spend more time outside. i don't do either of those things nearly as much as i want to, but that is the general direction i would like to face. the glimpses i've seen of computers emulating reality and the human experience increasingly resembling a computer have not been good

in my childhood i always thought about the rapture and people just disappearing, or hopefully me disappearing, and what it would like to be Left Behind starring Kirk Cameron. the rapture is probably not going to happen, but people effectively integrating themselves with computers - in the day-to-day things we do, work and entertainment, leisure, sleep; people thinking like computers, endlessly optimizing, referring to parts of the mind and body in computer metaphors; or even physically - imagine all the VR/AR stuff actually working and hundreds of millions of people inside of those headsets - is kind of like the tech rapture we no one anticipated or wanted but that we deserve

this is kind of tongue and cheek and miiiiight sound a little fascist, but you know how various space programs are trying to industrialize the moon? what if everyone that deeply does not want to upload themselves into the metaverse stays here on earth (which rules, for the most part), and then the people who want to be in the matrix can just put their pods on the moon, by the mining facilities?