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X-men, AI, and Oppenheimer...
Jul. 26th, 2023 09:47 pm1. X-men Hellfire Gala 2023
X-men has been doing stories about evil AI machines for years now. I'm tempted to lock all the damn AI engineers in a room with X-men comics, Philip K. Dick, Aldus Huxley, Asimov, Terminator films, Ex Deus Machina, and every single AI horror tale done to date. They aren't allowed out until they swear on the lives of those they love not to create AI.
( OMG They Killed Kenny Again! Along with a whole slew of other characters...it was brutal, even for Marvel, because Marvel has bloodthirsty writers, except for Ms. Marvel who was resurrected. )
2. Wales gift turned out to be... Turbo Trusser - Cook a Perfect Chicken Every Time.
Apparently, she remembered how we struggled getting the cornish hens legs tied together at Thanksgiving last year, and decided to buy me this.
She's psyched that I'm staying in NYC for Xmas this year - since she stopped trying to visit family during the holidays a long time ago.
It seems a little big for a cornish game hen - and I'm not really into roasting chickens - although maybe I should be?
3. The Hot Mama and Balanced Babe Supplements came today. I took both. So far, nada. Still getting the hot flashes. Sigh. Maybe it takes a while?
4. Since feeling a touch hoarse, and short of breath - I took a COVID test. I got a site tour tomorrow - so cannot afford to get sick. But just in case. Nope. Negative. Thank God.
Although BYT would deserve it - if I got sick. Babs feels like we're being set up to fail. She's overwhelmed, and been thrown work she has no clue how to do or who to ask.
( Read more... )
5. The AI thing is scary and the SAG/AFTRA and WGA strike is bringing out exactly why. Justine Bateman, computer scientist and actress - goes into detail about it.
And in her Op-Ed in Newsweek.. "As a WGA writer, a Directors Guild of America (DGA) director, a former Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) board member, former SAG negotiating committee member, and coder who holds a UCLA degree in computer science and digital media management, I knew this signaled that they were not only thinking about using AI to displace us, but that they had already begun.
AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, but I refer to it as "Automatic Imitation." In short, AI is an algorithm that is fed a wealth of information and given a task, and it then delivers the result based on the information it's been fed. There are more complexities, but that is the basic design and function of AI. And it is being used in the Arts for greed, trained on all our past work."
( Read more... )
Bateman's Op-Ed on AI
There's a lot coming out about it. Honestly, someone needs to tell engineers and scientists that just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
I don't know about anyone else, but I feel like I'm stuck in a Philip K Dick novel. I do not want to be stuck in a Philip K Dick novel. I'd much prefer Star Trek, or maybe Jane Austen?
6. Oppenheimer film - from what I've read and been told by those who have seen it - is an important film - because it delves into that question of hubris - the scientist doing what he shouldn't, and having to live with the consequences. All of them.
A coworker called Oppenheimer a hero. Because he ended WWII.
I don't think of him as a hero. It may have been a heroic act at the time and in that moment from that specific perspective, but it was equally a monstrous one. Angels are often Demons at the same time. I don't think people realize this - the villain and the hero often walk in the same shoes and the same path, they may even be the same person, it depends on who is looking at them - as to whether they are hero or villain. To the Japanese, Oppenheimer was a villain, and if you watched any Japanese Anime, you've heard of Oppenheimer at some point, his name and image comes up. Death in a hat. To the Americans - he was a hero.
It's kind of that old saying? Look into the abyss make sure it doesn't look back into you? Or more directly - when fighting monsters or monstrous acts, try not to become one yourself. Fighting evil with evil rarely ends well, for anyone. It didn't with the atomic bomb. Sure it ended WWII. But...look at the cost 90 years later? Was it worth it?
X-men has been doing stories about evil AI machines for years now. I'm tempted to lock all the damn AI engineers in a room with X-men comics, Philip K. Dick, Aldus Huxley, Asimov, Terminator films, Ex Deus Machina, and every single AI horror tale done to date. They aren't allowed out until they swear on the lives of those they love not to create AI.
( OMG They Killed Kenny Again! Along with a whole slew of other characters...it was brutal, even for Marvel, because Marvel has bloodthirsty writers, except for Ms. Marvel who was resurrected. )
2. Wales gift turned out to be... Turbo Trusser - Cook a Perfect Chicken Every Time.
Apparently, she remembered how we struggled getting the cornish hens legs tied together at Thanksgiving last year, and decided to buy me this.
She's psyched that I'm staying in NYC for Xmas this year - since she stopped trying to visit family during the holidays a long time ago.
It seems a little big for a cornish game hen - and I'm not really into roasting chickens - although maybe I should be?
3. The Hot Mama and Balanced Babe Supplements came today. I took both. So far, nada. Still getting the hot flashes. Sigh. Maybe it takes a while?
4. Since feeling a touch hoarse, and short of breath - I took a COVID test. I got a site tour tomorrow - so cannot afford to get sick. But just in case. Nope. Negative. Thank God.
Although BYT would deserve it - if I got sick. Babs feels like we're being set up to fail. She's overwhelmed, and been thrown work she has no clue how to do or who to ask.
( Read more... )
5. The AI thing is scary and the SAG/AFTRA and WGA strike is bringing out exactly why. Justine Bateman, computer scientist and actress - goes into detail about it.
And in her Op-Ed in Newsweek.. "As a WGA writer, a Directors Guild of America (DGA) director, a former Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) board member, former SAG negotiating committee member, and coder who holds a UCLA degree in computer science and digital media management, I knew this signaled that they were not only thinking about using AI to displace us, but that they had already begun.
AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, but I refer to it as "Automatic Imitation." In short, AI is an algorithm that is fed a wealth of information and given a task, and it then delivers the result based on the information it's been fed. There are more complexities, but that is the basic design and function of AI. And it is being used in the Arts for greed, trained on all our past work."
( Read more... )
Bateman's Op-Ed on AI
There's a lot coming out about it. Honestly, someone needs to tell engineers and scientists that just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
I don't know about anyone else, but I feel like I'm stuck in a Philip K Dick novel. I do not want to be stuck in a Philip K Dick novel. I'd much prefer Star Trek, or maybe Jane Austen?
6. Oppenheimer film - from what I've read and been told by those who have seen it - is an important film - because it delves into that question of hubris - the scientist doing what he shouldn't, and having to live with the consequences. All of them.
A coworker called Oppenheimer a hero. Because he ended WWII.
I don't think of him as a hero. It may have been a heroic act at the time and in that moment from that specific perspective, but it was equally a monstrous one. Angels are often Demons at the same time. I don't think people realize this - the villain and the hero often walk in the same shoes and the same path, they may even be the same person, it depends on who is looking at them - as to whether they are hero or villain. To the Japanese, Oppenheimer was a villain, and if you watched any Japanese Anime, you've heard of Oppenheimer at some point, his name and image comes up. Death in a hat. To the Americans - he was a hero.
It's kind of that old saying? Look into the abyss make sure it doesn't look back into you? Or more directly - when fighting monsters or monstrous acts, try not to become one yourself. Fighting evil with evil rarely ends well, for anyone. It didn't with the atomic bomb. Sure it ended WWII. But...look at the cost 90 years later? Was it worth it?