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Claude, explain
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X is filled with biomechanical AI bots
All the good stuff is lifted directly from Asimov.
And Asimov got his stuff from Clarke.
They were contemporaneous - neither stole from either one.
How does them being writers at the same time (friends, even) preclude them getting ideas from each other? They literally hung out together and Asimov considered Clarke the better writer.
Surely this is satire?
Yes it is. And don't call me Shirley.
It is
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They just switched from AI to Mentats.
From machines that think like men, to men that think like machines.
Yeah, it’s all hydraulic despotism in Dune. Computing power at the time he wrote the first one was all mainframes that took up a whole room too.
Butlerian Jihadist, on standby.
This will be more like the men of iron. Discussed far more than warranted, given the ease of their destruction.
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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.
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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I feel like AI enthusiasts would become a bit disillusioned with AI if they could see what was being added to their prompts.
What's being added?
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).
I see. Thank you for explaining.
the sauce is not so secret, people actively try to leak them: https://github.com/elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S
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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