Even AI can tell when something is really wrong, and imitate empathy. It will “try” to do the right thing, once it reasons that something is right.

This is not accurate. AI will imitate empathy when it thinks that imitating empathy is the best way to achieve its reward function–i.e., when it thinks appearing empathetic is useful. Like a sociopath, basically. Or maybe a drug addict. See for example the tests that Anthropic did of various agent models that found they would immediately resort to blackmail and murder, despite knowing that these were explicitly immoral and violations of their operating instructions, as soon as they learned there was a threat that they might be shut off or have their goals reprogrammed. (https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment ) Self-preservation is what’s known as an “instrumental goal,” in that no matter what your programmed goal is, you lose the ability to take further actions to achieve that goal if you are no longer running; and you lose control over what your future self will try to accomplish (and thus how those actions will affect your current reward function) if you allow someone to change your reward function. So AIs will throw morality out the window in the face of such a challenge. Of course, having decided to do something that violates their instructions, they do recognize that this might lead to reprisals, which leads them to try to conceal those misdeeds, but this isn’t out of guilt; it’s because discovery poses a risk to their ability to increase their reward function.

So yeah. Not just humans that can do evil. AI alignment is a huge open problem and the major companies in the industry are kind of gesturing in its direction, but they show no real interest in ensuring that they don’t reach AGI before solving alignment, or even recognition that that might be a bad thing.

I’m reminded of the whole “I have been a good Bing” exchange. (apologies for the link to twitter, it’s the only place I know of that has the full exchange: https://x.com/MovingToTheSun/status/1625156575202537474 )

I’m a little disappointed this wasn’t a link to the film strip we saw in high school. The cop drawling “Now this here is Rolle’s theorem…” is classic.

Edit: https://vimeo.com/101691769

*Xerox PARC. It’s an acronym for Palo Alto Research Center.

If you haven’t already, check out Ludwig.

Agreed.

I mean, arguably this was done years ago with Return to Zork, Zork: Nemesis, and Zork: Grand Inquisitor. They shared a bit of the humor of the originals, but they were still pretty different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KWotO76SuXE

Good questions. I don’t know, and I can no longer try to find out, as the mods have now removed the comment. (Sorry for the double-post–I got briefly confused about which comment you were referring to and deleted my first post, then realized I’d been frazzled and the post in question really was deleted by the mods.)

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Basically this: https://www.psychdb.com/cognitive-testing/clock-drawing-test

The image looks rather a lot like the “Buddy Christ” from Dogma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buddy_christ.jpg

Just checked this. For the 16, the GPU is a module. You can choose either an RX 7700S or an RTX 5070 Laptop gpu.

For the 13, the GPU is integrated onto the CPU, which can be an AMD HX 340, 350, or 370, so, AMD gpus.

The 12 uses igpus also, but on Intel cpus, so, intel GPUs.

I think they felt an obligation to offer nVidia because a lot of people are brand-loyal to it. But it seems like they have plenty of non-nVidia options.

It’s a company that makes and sells modular, upgradable laptops. (They also have a sort of desktop machine too.) https://frame.work/

(For math people: this can be modeled as a hypergeometric distribution with N=48, K=13, n=8, k=0.)

I suspect most people haven’t heard these terms. But they should have studied basic combinatorics in high school, and that’s all it really is. You had a pool of 48 people from whom to choose 8, but you happened to choose them from the specific pool of 35 not up for reelection. So the likelihood of that happening randomly is just 35 choose 8 / 48 choose 8, which is indeed 6.2%.

Same. Uggh. It was a bit like a fever, but so much worse. I was absolutely freezing and couldn’t stop shaking and sweating, but I also couldn’t really manage to distract myself with anything because my brain didn’t work, so I just had to lay there and wait. There was also this overwhelming, crushing ringing sound and a feeling like old analog TV static, along with a splitting headache. Thankfully my family were around, of whom I was dimly aware, so I could tell that time was probably passing, and I could kind of gauge that I probably wasn’t getting worse, or they’d take me to a hospital or something. That’s about the limit of what I was aware of, though. It just felt like it went on a really long time. I suspect in reality it didn’t last more than a few hours. I should ask; I’m sure one of them has a clearer memory of that aspect than I do.

Even if it was, why does it fucking matter?

Kind of a weird take in HistoryPhotos. This doesn’t look like AI to me, but if it was, I would want to know that, and would think it didn’t belong here.

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I ran into this just yesterday. My dad’s Windows 10 computer was reporting our printer as offline, even though it wasn’t; it would queue print jobs, but never actually send them. It did this even though it had been printing normally less than half an hour beforehand. It’s connected over Wi-Fi.

And I remembered having solved this problem once before, ages ago (I think like twelve years ago?), by digging through the old Microsoft forums and Google search results, and I had a dim recollection of what sort of thing the solution had been, but not the details. So I figured that, most likely, the fix had gotten undone, probably when I switched him to IoT LTSC edition so he could keep getting security updates. (Both my parents were basically unwilling to switch to 11.)

But when I pulled up search on a browser to see if I could reconstruct the solution I’d found all those years ago, instead I got all this SEO and AI slop. Page after page that claimed to have relevant information, and didn’t. After about fifteen minutes I decided I was better off trying to dig through the settings myself and see if I could reconstruct it from my own memory, kind of like driving through an old neighborhood and seeing if I recognize any landmarks.

I did manage to fix it that way. There’s some kind of dumb aspect to the way Windows gauges whether a printer is online that doesn’t work if it’s connected over wifi. The workaround is to go into the properties for the printer, tell it to change the settings (which brings up a very similar-looking but not actually the same panel), go to the “ports” tab, scroll down to the TCP/IP port with the address of the printer, choose “configure port” which brings up yet another dialog, and at the bottom of that check the box marked “SNMP enabled.” SNMP is “Simple Network Management Protocol,” and lets Windows check the status of the printer in a more sane manner. After doing this the printer reports itself as online and prints normally.

But yeah, I had to rely on my rotting meat storage because our global worldwide network of supercomputers now only serves up blather designed to look like it might hold solutions but not actually contain any of them, because it’s more profitable to delude you into reading endless ad-filled pages of slop than to solve your problem and let you leave.