My comment was in jest, but there is a reasonable argument that biological organisms are also predictive input/output machines. It’s especially evident in simple organisms, like an amoeba, where some physical or chemical stimulus in the environment triggers a mostly predictable response.

The argument that human consciousness is fundamentally different - not just that it’s more complex but that at some point the physical determinism of electrical and chemical impulses gives way to an authority that overrides that physical basis, enabling free thought or free will - remains scientifically unsubstantiated. We know of no mechanism by which that could occur.

And the philosophical arguments aren’t much better - I’ve never seen a theory of dualism articulated in a way that doesn’t invoke ghosts or magic.

It will be amazing if AI destroys humanity without ever becoming conscious. Everyone was envisioning Skynet, when in reality we’ll just cook the Earth with GHGs so that data center GPUs can hallucinate legal cases.

Are we positive that they’re conscious? I just think we should run some tests.

Tesla lost 6% of its value today so I’m sure Elmo felt compelled to find something to pull out of his ass.

And that’s just the MSRP! The true cost is after every single goddamn unit is scooped up by scalpers.

This is my experience as well. Best case scenario it gives me a rough idea of what functions to use or how to set up the logic, but then it always screws up the actual implementation. I’ve never asked ChatGPT for coding help and gotten something I can use off the bat. I always have to rewrite it before it’s functional.

Maybe we can at least hope that Square is influenced by the positive reception to those projects, and goes for a lighter touch on changes than they did with FF7!

Have you seen Memoria Project? That did an incredible job of updating the first few areas of the game but keeping the art style intact.

I’m in full agreement that IX shouldn’t get the FF7R treatment. It would lose all of its charm.

A post this dumb is almost certainly trolling, but in case you’re actually serious about bragging your phone was made in a Vietnamese sweatshop instead of a Chinese one, maybe you should read the news more: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/was-your-smartphone-built-in-a-sweatshop/

Based Tesla makes a car that vandalizes itself

I’ve got a system that removes the watermark and adds two or three bonus fingers, free of charge! Silicon Valley VC is gonna be all over this.

Absolutely. Hyundai and Kia have the best EVs by a long shot. Charge way faster than a Tesla, too.

By “creating something,” do you mean replacing the work that a human creative would normally do? (That is, replacing an artist/writer/musician who would otherwise have the job?)

That’s where I’d draw the line. I think personal use is fine but if you’re affecting people’s employment by using an AI that’s clearly a no-go for me.

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Yes, but this article is U.S. focused and highlighting the difficulties facing those companies specifically. It should really be titled to specify the U.S. charging industry.

There is huge international momentum behind electrification and the impact of Trump’s policies will be to cede our technological competitiveness in both vehicles and charging to China.

Hmm, it’s kind of like he has an established MO for when his businesses are failing due to his own poor decisions and lack of business sense.

Storing it and associating it with all the other identifying information collected.

It likely is hard-coded against that, and it also didn’t say that in this case.

Did you read the article with the conversation? The teen said he wanted to “come home” to Daenerys Targaryen and she (the AI) replied “please do, my sweet king.”

It’s setting an absurdly high bar to assume an AI is going to understand euphemism and subtext as potential indicators of self-harm. That’s the job of a psychiatrist, a real-world person that the kid’s parents should have taken him to.

I have a 13700K that’s growing increasingly unstable due to their fuckup on voltage control. Never again. My next rebuild will be AMD.

I’d say trying to take a victory lap for a Gaza ceasefire a couple days before leaving office, when he’s been the one sending all the $17 billion of bombs and missiles that are being fired at Gazan kids in the first place, takes the top spot.

This is also stupid, ineffective, and incompetent, but with a significantly lower body count.