Basement Whatever

“the curve we’ve been riding just flattened into a long plateau.”(X) – a sensible look at what physics and energy teaches us about the future of AI.

“What would a human pretending to be an AI say?” Interesting read on the language used by chatbots, and how it is based on human language. “AIs are trained to predict the training data, not to learn unrelated abilities, so we should expect an AI asked to predict the thoughts of an AI to describe the thoughts of a human pretending to be an AI.”

“ChatGPT and the meaning of life” – a philosopher’s thoughts on a future of life without work, and what it means – both good and bad. “Grief, you don’t need me to tell you, is a complicated beast. You can grieve for something even when you know that, on balance, it’s good that it’s gone.”