Recent comments in /f/singularity

DungeonsAndDradis t1_j4jwik3 wrote

Not OP, but I do these things:

  1. A different way to mark emails in Outlook (I move messages, and flag others, depending on subject). This is exactly the same as rules in Outlook.

  2. I send an email every month to my team in India to remind them to submit their time sheets.

  3. I have it send me an email recap of any posts in a specific Teams channel, just in case I miss the post.

  4. I have it send me an email any time someone uploads a file to a shared OneDrive folder.

I've only scratched the surface of what Power Automate can do, and I love it.

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isthiswhereiputmy t1_j4jtueu wrote

I think it’s possible that there are some forms of digital immortality within 20-30 years but that for people living now it won’t be a one size fits all thing. There may always be some distinction between born bodies de-aging and getting upgrades and the idea of immortal digital consciousness’s being uploaded. It might be more like the transporter paradox, or just some transition some people take when they reach extreme old age. I think we’ll likely see plural consciousnesses emerge at a point too. The trend we see in the universe so far has been toward more complexity.

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Sufficient-Fact6163 t1_j4jp71l wrote

I say Noooo. You only have to look at conjoined twins to see how difficult 2 consciousness are in one place. Why on Earth is Humanity violating this easily observational situation? It would take a United Humanity to deal with It and We can’t even agree that the sky is Blue.
Please tell me I am wrong in my observation

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h3lblad3 t1_j4jovvc wrote

It wouldn't write any ridiculous articles for me about politicians because it considered them "offensive and disrespectful", but was perfectly fine with writing me an article about Elon Musk's plan to feed Mars rocks to kindergartners.

The dividing lines it draws are absolutely silly.

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h3lblad3 t1_j4joj9s wrote

> What kind of moral bloatware are you worried about? Any examples?

Up until very recently, asking for a recipe using a meat not commonly eaten in the US -- even if it was commonly eaten in some other parts of the world (like horse) -- would elicit a scolding from ChatGPT for being "unethical", advice being given to switch to vegetarianism, and a vegan recipe would be given instead.

Now it just chides you for asking for something "unethical" and stops there, but it used to be so much worse.


This is the kind of moral bloatware people are worried about.

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h3lblad3 t1_j4jo12y wrote

> What OpenAI has done with, for example, ChatGPT, is manually add filters to check the outputs to see if they seem offensive. Did they over-correct a bit? Maybe, but the LLM itself is unaffected.

It told me it wouldn't provide me a recipe for horse meat because that would be unethical. It's definitely a little over the top.

At least it's not demanding I eat vegan anymore.

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leoreno t1_j4jmqcx wrote

This depends on what you consider AI

Pacemakers today monitor for anomalies in your heartbeat and will jolt your heart back into rhythm. Does having a pacemaker make you a cyborg?

In a less invasive way, we're all tethered to our phones, and on then connected to global platform networks (like reddit), we're dependent on these networks and devices for everything from social connection to daily planning, getting directions, etc.

AI in these platforms is ubiquitous

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Scarlet_pot2 t1_j4jhc0z wrote

I'd use my own AI to improve myself, not allow someone else to do it for me. That alone can save future people from being corrupted.

Take the open source version, learn how it works, tailor it. That would probably be the safe way to do things, compared to downloading a pre made one from a trillion dollar capitalist corp.

Once AGI is developed, and understood I doubt it will be any harder to learn then today's AI methods and math

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Aburath t1_j4jemna wrote

Humans need to communicate with other humans to develop self awareness otherwise they become subjective. Humans left in isolation become psychologically and neurologically damaged beyond repair.

If we had an AI, that spoke, and reared a child, the child may psychologically be part ai.

How much of what we consider to be ourselves, is made out of the people around us? When some of those people are ai, have we incorporated ai into our minds?

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Ortus14 t1_j4j86gv wrote

Q: What void are people trying to fill with transhumanism?

A: Understanding where things are headed helps you make the best decisions for the best quality of life. There's also beauty in the evolution of life and echo systems on earth.

Q: I actually sort of worry that a lot of people are out of touch with the genuine beauty of life

A: People can have more than one interests. We can appreciate the beauty of a tree or rose, as well as appreciate the beauty of a large language model or a deep neural network learning to drive. In reality it's all one interconnected system.

Q: If you increase your IQ to 10,000, what makes you think that will make it easier to ignore a fundamental meaninglessness?

A: There is no "fundamental meaninglessness". Meaning is significance assigned inside of minds to conceptual representations of external phenomenon.

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