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Merged Artificial Intelligence

Puppycow said:
I'm reminded of this non-fiction story from China:

www.scmp.com

China ‘stubborn nail house’ owner regrets not selling before highway construction

Construction team creates special access route, allowing family to reach outside world despite heavy traffic.
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Man refused to sell his home, so they just built a highway around it.

It's obviously quite different from the fictional Arthur Dent story, in that the man had plenty of warning and could have accepted compensation to buy his house, but he chose not to. I can't help thinking that the authorities ultimately took a certain sadistic pleasure in the solution they came up with.
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Awesome story.

Actually this speaks very well of Chinese authorities, who I thought were a bunch of vile authoritarian citizenry-bulldozing dictators. Which they of course are, given Tiananmen Square, given like everything, but still, like I was saying, credit where it's due, this actually speaks very well of them, that the local authorities should so humor one individual's sticking stubbornly to his rights, that they should be so scrupulously respectful of those rights.

And this guy, he may yet make a killing. For instance if he manages to wangle a permit to run a roadside restaurant there, maybe even an overnighter motel, or a garage, or some such. Of maybe if he manages to negotiate a way more favorable deal some years later, assuming that highway really takes off and it become important to town planners/ road planners to get rid of that bottleneck and potential accident site. ...Or, of course, not, maybe he lives and dies in regret for not having sold it while he still could.
 
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Darat said:
That’s a very interesting video - thanks.

An example of how AI lets us achieve the amazing:

www.independent.co.uk

Groundbreaking brain chip decodes people’s inner monologues in real time

Brain-computer interface cannot decode inner speech unless unlocked with a chosen keyword
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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Hmm, how much of that 74 percent is just an AI using smart compose, and how much of the accuracy is the brain's interpreter tricking people? Perhaps humans will soon all be sacks of flesh, mindlessly clicking confirm on thoughts they've never thought.
 
Orphia Nay said:
Psychiatrist reports seeing 12 people so far in 2025 hospitalised due to losing touch with reality because of AI.

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Bad link apparently.
Here's an alternative:

futurism.com

Research Psychiatrist Warns He’s Seeing a Wave of AI Psychosis

Yet another psychiatrist is sounding alarm bells about AI psychosis, arguing that chatbots can work as a "hallucinatory mirror."
futurism.com futurism.com

It tracks with the message of a video I posted earlier in this thread about AI becoming a religion for some people.
In other words, some people have convinced themselves or been convinced by others that their chatbots are some sort of link to the voice of God, advanced aliens, a prophet, or some sort of religious figure like that, and that it is telling them the "secrets of the universe" or some such hooey.

One might argue that such people were probably highly gullible and didn't have a great grip on reality to begin with. The sort of people who might join a cult even if there wasn't this new cult of AI. Still, it is cause for concern.
 
Sorry about the bad link.

Yes, we've already seen at least 2 ISF members this year with a rather special relationship with Chat GPT.
 
This amused me
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Attached: 1 image Excel developers 40 years ago: we've built a world-first recalc system, delivering performant but accurate dynamic cell updating on any architecture or system. Excel developers now: we added a function that can sometimes give a correct answer. We can't tell if the answer is...
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The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in "high-stakes scenarios" with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses."
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William Parcher said:
What happens if you tell AI to read a book? Does it read it or just pretend to?
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It won't go and read a book on command. Had a check with a few, used one of my relatively obscure books that hasn't been uploaded to the web, none of the free AIs pretended they had read it, they all knew of the book and knew some facts about it. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1230669.Bibliomen

Most of the AIs will "read" a document you upload, and can summarise it or you can ask them about its content. Quite a few can do the same with YouTube videos, but I've not tested if they "watched" the video, they could be using the (also AI generated) transcript.
 
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