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Literally just mainlining marketing material straight into whatever’s left of their rotting brains.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As Marxists, we must carefully investigate all technological advance, especially those in computation, and of cybernetics we must be most curious of all.

Computation is at most the symbolic record of the movement of a thought through time. The best an AI can ever do is recording and playing back the process-of-thinking to us, and in the case of large-language-models, this computation produces works that will always pale in comparison to the minds it was trained upon. In spite of any psychic qualities that may be assigned to the electron, our silicon genius can never actually be a Sibelius or a Riemann.

Those fundamental limitations of computers, however, will matter little: the consistent history of the misuse of new computer technologies, by the capitalist powers, for controlling individuals and populations, confirms for us that the repression and social deterioration that we collectively experience will reach unbearable heights in the days to come.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It is almost certainly possible to make an artificial intelligence someday, especially as understanding of living brains improves over time.

The point I'd like to emphasize is that LLMs are not "AI" no matter what the marketing bullshit says, and no amount of performative computer-toucher contempt for humanity or living beings changes that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Elon Musk could announce he's already been to Mars actually, twice actually, and half his fans would believe it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's still going. The thread is still fucking going.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

People really do think a version of SmarterChild with more bells and whistles is really Skynet

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