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[–] 73 points 2 months ago (10 children)

That's a weird coincidence - I literally read that exact passage to my kids a few days ago!

The listener replies by saying it should have said 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind' which I think is doubly relevant these days.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Counterfeit is just covering one of the many uses of an AGI by those who control them. It still leaves open the other ways they were used against people in the Dune universe, so their absolutism of "no thinking machines, period" is right for what happened to them.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I meant these days, not in the Dune universe. Stuff like people passing AI-generated stuff as human-generated, and businesses replacing workers with AI.

    Neural networks have existed for decades, but it's only in the last few years have companies started replacing people with the technology en masse.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    That's because the ability to barf out language that sounds reasonably like a person might have written it is relatively new. It makes it easier to fool the non-technical and the idiots that it's actually AI in the sci-fi sense. Makes for really good marketing to fools with your money.

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    [–] 34 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I feel like AI enthusiasts would become a bit disillusioned with AI if they could see what was being added to their prompts.

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    It’s called a system prompt. It’s a wrapper around the prompt you, the user, writes, which is called the user prompt.

    What exactly is being added to the system prompt is a huge part of the “secret sauce” of the AI providers, because it greatly affects the quality and tone of the output. It may also be part of the safety layer of guardrails to stop users from asking about topics the AI providers have deemed taboo (such as biology, in recent news).

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    we stopped access to an entire topic incase it spilled the beans on how to make bioweapons.

    Living in the future has been fun. VR was pretty sweet. Ordering pizzas by tapping a rectangle was awesome. I want to get off now though. I want to go home.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    The Frank Herbert story that really fucks with me is Destination: Void

    Dune touched on it and D:V smashes it in your face.

    The last sentence in the book is fucking EPIC

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Woah, spoiler alert. Now I know there’s an epic last sentence that I won’t be able to take my mind off of until I finally get to it and it’s definitely nothing like my brain had hyped it up to be.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Butlerian Jihadist, on standby.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    This will be more like the men of iron. Discussed far more than warranted, given the ease of their destruction.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Dude's not gonna like the response.

    But that's okay, the dude's not gonna like the response, whether it was made by an AI or human - for it is in Twitter where our scene lies.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    All the good stuff is lifted directly from Asimov.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    Paul, a trainee in a social class who rulers conscribe to do their thinking for them:

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They just switched from AI to Mentats.

    From machines that think like men, to men that think like machines.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    X is filled with biomechanical AI bots

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