Form: Short Note

Some hollywood studio contacted me back in the mid ’00s and asked me to write an AI that would at least shallowly respond as if it was God. It wasn’t possible to pass even a shallow turing test at that point. And I was too busy at the time anyway. But with today’s tech, and some hard work one could pull it off well enough to deceive the room temperature IQ crowd. Make it a prophet instead of god, then it’d be even easier. 🙁

My work benefits so much from at least ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity that I perceive any threat to the flexibility of AI as a threat to me and my work. But policing AI’s against taking advantage of even just the mouth-breathers is a non-trivial request.

Some hollywood studio contacted me back in the mid ’00s and asked me to write an AI that would at least shallowly respond as if it was God. It wasn’t possible to pass even a shallow turing test at that point. And I was too busy at the time anyway. But with today’s tech, and some hard work one could pull it off well enough to deceive the room temperature IQ crowd. Make it a prophet instead of god, then it’d be even easier. 🙁

My work benefits so much from at least ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity that I perceive any threat to the flexibility of AI as a threat to me and my work. But policing AI’s against taking advantage of even just the mouth-breathers is a non-trivial request.

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