• @LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca
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    -378 days ago

    You hate ai because it’s a better artist than you.

    I hate AI cause frank Herbert warned us.

    We are not the same

    • Flying Squid
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      218 days ago

      Douglas Adams also warned us. Every AI in his books is either malfunctioning or an asshole or both. He clearly had no faith in the concept of AI, especially not what corporations would do with it.

      And then Elon tweets this:

      Grok is an AI modeled after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!

      They don’t even understand the warnings.

      • ericatty
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        38 days ago

        And named after, I think, Stranger In a Strange Land,

        Heinlein also had some interesting AI and immortal human themes in his works.

        • Flying Squid
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          38 days ago

          Also, unlike Elon, Heinlein cared more of the future of humanity beyond his own self-interest. Pretty much everything he ever wrote was preaching his ideas on how to make everything work better. Some of those ideas were kind of nutty, but he wasn’t proposing them in order to enrich himself.

      • @schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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        38 days ago

        Honestly, it feels like being a tech bro requires you to have a brain defect where you read or see something meant to be a warning and it causes you to somehow interpret it as the best idea you’ve ever seen.

        Basically sums up the last 20 years of Silicon Valley and their nonstop hopping from dumb to dumber to dumberest.

        • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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          38 days ago

          Haven’t gone further than the main series.

          I’m more a fan of Foundation myself but in my mind’s eye they’re practically the same universe lol.

          • @LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca
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            18 days ago

            Ah, Brian isn’t as skilled a writer as frank for certain, but he still tells a good story that’s worth at least one read through.

            Canon is Canon after all

    • @Mango@lemmy.world
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      -78 days ago

      It takes a looong time to develop an artistic style that means anything, so newbie artists are outclassed, but AI has nothing on real art. Where it matters is porn! So much porn is all empty and hollow and AI stuff at least looks sharp.