Google's 'Sentient' Chatbot Is Our Self-Deceiving Future - The Atlantic

Here's hoping Ian Bogost doesn't have a bias, and only his editor who presumably wrote the headline, but pathetic? Sigh. Amidst Ian's arguments to authority, after all who is to challenge Google and their all-knowing engineers, there is a very interesting point made tangenting SETI — Is humanity predisposed to find humanity in the non-human? Joining the Blake Lemoine dogpile, Pranshu Verma learned about This AI Model Tries To Re-Create The Mind Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg with some success. Rather than undermining its success with pencilneck geeks from Silicon Valley, there are some jurists making provocative points about this recreation's weaknesses. So if nerds are (air quotes) resurrecting (end air quotes) with their $10,000 rigs Guillaume Thierry wants to know "When Will I Be Able To Upload My Brain To A Computer?" In the course of sussing out an answer, Guillaume gets his hands dirty with the technology, the challenges raised by how our brains store information, and if there is something more beyond our physical selves. Amdist these thorny topics, Simon Young (no, not Dr. Beachcombing) has been playing with Dall-E and presents his latest opus — A Bizarre Aew AI App Has Gone Viral, So We Flooded It With Metal Icons. The Results Will Haunt Your Dreams. Haunt your dreams? Not so much, but it's good for a larf. (CS)

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