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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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.
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.
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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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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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
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.
its one of the few rare moments in a book where the last page absolutly is the reveal
hahaha good luck! maybe put it on your list and forget about it for a few months
maybe put it on your list and forget about it for a few months
That’s my specialty!
That goes straight to my pile. While the Dune series isn't exactly my cup of tea (and gets progressively worse imo), I absolutely love The Santaroga Barrier.
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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).
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.
the sauce is not so secret, people actively try to leak them: https://github.com/elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S
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Surely this is satire?
Yes it is. And don't call me Shirley.
It is
Surely you can't be serious?
I am not serious, and please call me Shirley
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.
Paul, a trainee in a social class who rulers conscribe to do their thinking for them:
They just switched from AI to Mentats.
From machines that think like men, to men that think like machines.
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X is filled with biomechanical AI bots
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