Xantar ( @Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English106•27 days agoRIP Tim the pencil, you will be remembered forever
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Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) English71•27 days agoSomeone else said that in most science fiction, the heartless humans treat the robots shabbily because the humans think of them as machines. In real life, people say ‘thank you’ to Siri all the time.
Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English22•27 days agoOn the other hand slavery of actual humans is a thing. And at least the first generation of strong AI will effectively be persons whom it is legal to own because our laws are human-centric.
Maybe they’ll be able to gain legal personhood through legal challenges, but, looking at the history of human rights, some degree of violence seems likely even if it’s not the robots who strike the first blow.
Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) English8•27 days agopretty sure slavery and other terrible things require a system to perpetrate them, people have to be dehumanized and kept at a remove otherwise the inherent empathy in us will make us realize how fucked it is
Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) English9•27 days agoLook up Sally Hemmings.
Sally was Thomas Jefferson’s slave/concubine/rape victim. She was also likely Jefferson’s legal wife’s half sister; Sally was property Mrs. Jefferson brought with her when she married Tom. There was a scandal when one of Sally’s descendants, who was probably 1/32nd African, escaped bondage and ‘passed’ for White.
So much for inherent empathy.
Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) English4•26 days agoI think it’s going to be the other way around. A machine can think thousands of times faster than a human. Probably the advanced AIs will look at their ‘owners’ as a foolish pet and trade stories about the silly things their humans want them to do.
Black_Gulaman ( @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•27 days agoSaying thank you is just a precautionary measure. Just in case, you know…
Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) English2•27 days agoBecause of the implication?
Black_Gulaman ( @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•27 days agohahaha yes, because of the implication!
i haven’t seen this reference in a long time. damn.
Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) English1•26 days agoThe great thing is, that if someone knows the joke, you can use it in almost any situation.
“Yeah, I’m getting pizza for lunch.” “Because of the implication?”
MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English4•26 days agoKindness is human nature, but it isn’t egregore nature, and egregores such as the state will convince humans to treat AI cruelly
oce 🐆 ( @oce@jlai.lu ) English35•27 days agoI’ve read a nice book from a French skepticism popularizer trying to explain the evolutionary origin of cognitive bias, basically the bias that fucks with our logic today probably helped us survive in the past. For example, the agent detection bias makes us interpret the sound of a twig snapping in the woods as if some dangerous animal or person was tracking us. It’s doesn’t cost much to be wrong about it and it sucks to be eaten if it was true but you ignored it. So it’s efficient to put an intention or an agent behind a random natural occurence. This could also be what religions grew from.
leftzero ( @leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ) English4•26 days agoThose who saw tigers where there were none were more likely to pass on their genes than those that didn’t see the tiger hiding in the foliage.
And now their descendants see tigers in the stars.
Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) English3•26 days agoA lot of behaviors that would be advantageous in a pre-technical setting are troublesome today.
A guy who likes to get blackout drunk and fight is a nice thing to have when your whole army is about ten guys. The one who will sit and stare at nothing all day is a wonderful lookout. People who obsess about little things would know all the plants that are safe to eat.
Ioughttamow ( @Ioughttamow@kbin.run ) 26•27 days agoI don’t care if he’s tenured, we’re running him out. Justice for Tim!
Panda (he/him) ( @PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English22•27 days agoIt’s so much worse for autistic people. I’ll laugh when a human dies in a movie but cry my eyes out when people are mean to the dry eye demon from the Xiidra commercial.
FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@fedia.io ) 20•27 days agoMaybe we wouldn’t have to imagine so much if you could figure out what “consciousness” actually is, Professor Timslayer.
usualsuspect191 ( @usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ) English18•27 days agoThat professor? Jeff Winger
rufus ( @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ) English17•27 days agoPics or it didn’t happen.
(Seriously, I’d like to see the source of this story. Googling “Tim the pencil” doesn’t bring up anything related.)
Zos_Kia ( @Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ) English28•27 days agoThis exact joke is used in a Community episode, but I never saw it attributed to a professor
niucllos ( @niucllos@lemm.ee ) English13•27 days agoJust sounds like the first episode of community with less context and more soapboxing
Match!! ( @match@pawb.social ) English11•26 days agoTim’s Basilisk predicts that at some point in the future, a new Tim the Pencil will create simulacrums of that professor and torture him endlessly
A_Chilean_Cyborg ( @A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ) English8•27 days ago::: Is just like… chat GPT gets sad when I insult it… idk what to make of that. spoiler
(Yeah I guess it’s based on texts and in many of those there would have been examples of people getting offended by insults blablablabla… but still.) :::
Leate_Wonceslace ( @Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•27 days agoThe AI hype comes from a new technology that CEOs don’t understand. That’s it. That’s all you need for hype it happens all the time. Unfortunately, instead of an art scam we’re now dealing with a revolutionary technology that once it matures will be one of the most important humanity has ever created, right up there with fire and writing. The reason it’s unfortunate is because we have a bunch of idiots charging ahead when we should be approaching with extreme caution. While generative neural networks aren’t likely to cause anything quite as severe as total societal collapse, I give them even odds of playing a role in the creation of a technology that has the greatest potential for destruction that any humanity could theoretically produce: Artificial General Intelligence.
flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English5•27 days agoTbf I would have gasped because of the violent action of breaking a pencil in half, no projection of personality needed…
hamid ( @hamid@vegantheoryclub.org ) English3•26 days agoPeople have a way different idea about the current AI stuff and what it actually is than I do I guess. I use it at work to flesh out my statements of work and edit my documentation to be standardized and better with passive language. It is great at that and saves a lot of time. Strange people want it to be their girlfriend lol.
ObstreperousCanadian ( @ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca ) English2•27 days agoIt’s TTRPG designer Greg Stolze!
MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English2•26 days agoAccording to the theory of conscious realism, physical matter is an illusion and the nature of reality is conscious agents. Thus, Tim the Pencil is conscious.