Showing posts with label futures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label futures. Show all posts
Monday, May 06, 2024

Are we the cows of the future?

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One of the questions posed by Yuval Harari in his writing on our possible futures is "What are we to do with all these humans who are...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The world of decentralized everything.

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Following up on my last post on the Summer of Protocols sessions , I want to pass on (again, to my future self, and possibly a few techie Mi...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Fundamentally changing the nature of war.

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I generally try to keep a distance from 'the real world' and apocalyptic visions of what AI might do, but I decided to pass on some ...
Monday, January 08, 2024

The Importance of Not Being Earnest

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I pass on some of the paragraphs from Rao's latest piece to archive them  for myself here on MindBlog, and to make them available to oth...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

In Search of Hardness - Protocol studies, the next crypto cycle, and the next age of the world

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I’m using this posting to save for myself some clips of text from Venkatesh Rao’s most recent piece , to continue mulling over where I place...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

AI is a camera, not an engine.

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Yet another brilliant essay from Venkatest Rao on how modern AI puts us into an age of exploration of computational reality. I got halfway ...
Thursday, December 07, 2023

Goggle's Bard and Chat GPT-4 on using AI to explore beyond language and words...

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I show first the prompt I addressed yesterday afternoon to both Bard and ChatGPT-4.  The more nuanced response I received from Bard makes me...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Religious wars in the tech industry.

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In this post I continue to use MindBlog as my private reference library to put down essential ideas I want to hang onto by extracting releva...
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Friday, September 22, 2023

This is the New 'Real World'

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For my own later reference, and hopefully of use to a few MindBlog readers,  I have edited, cut and pasted, and condensed from 3960 to 1933 ...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Never-Ending Stories - a survival tactic for uncertain times

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I keep returning to clips of text that I abstracted from a recent piece by Venkatesh Rao . It gets more rich for me on each re-reading.  I l...
Monday, July 24, 2023

The evolution of transhuman forms - a MindBlog paragraph edited by GPT implementations

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In this post I am documenting the final result of passing a paragraph I wrote on future human evolution through a number of different GPT (g...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence

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I would recommend having a read through Evgeny Morozov's piece in the NYTimes as an antidote to Marc Adreessen's optimistic vision ...
Monday, May 08, 2023

Can a theory of events-in-time - our future history - ever be crafted?

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I first drafted this as I usually do to pass on clips that attempt to extract the core points from a fascinating brief piece by Venkatesh R...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Is the hype over A.I. justified? Does it really change everything?

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I know, I know…. We’re all tired of the hysteria resulting from the sudden appearance of ChatGPT-like programs that feel to us as though the...
Wednesday, March 08, 2023

A skeptical take on the AI revolution

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I want to pass on to MindBlog readers some clips I have made for my own use from the transcript of a podcast interview of Gary Marcus by Ez...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Artificial intelligence and personhood

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MindBlog hesitates to add to the feeding frenzy of articles about LLMs (large language models) such as Open AI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing’...