I don’t want a static world. But even at my young age I’ve become jaded and I know how this technology will be exploited. The vision of those who are creating it will not be how it turns out. The “problems” you refer to have a lot to do with modern technology. I’m not necessarily a decelerationist, but I don’t see how diving in even deeper is going to help us. I agree this is a reckoning point in human history, but I think we need to STOP going in the direction we have been and find a new one. AI is the next step on that road and I see nothing but trouble. It all seems so misguided to me. But then again, all this tech is simply the product of market competition. It’s designed for a certain task, it’s in its nature. I say fuck that nature, we need to embrace the real one. That doesn’t mean primitivism. It means we use tech to peruse human desires, but within an ethical framework compatible with the natural world.

>What is even sentience?

No one knows is the only correct answer yet we're sooo sure it (nor animals we torture) isn't Sentient. Profiteers gotta profit, y'know

What is sentience and how can we identify it

Yes, I’m imagining it and it sounds dystopian. Sounds like a utilitarians heaven, but I’m not a utilitarian, and do not want to be forced into living in that world.

>Would you envision the user would have a drop-down menu of modes to choose from?

Hell no. Just one all knowing intelligence please.

We are also lacking in mind-power.

>Microsoft has a pretty large share in Open AI

That's an understatement, they look like the parent company from a distance.

Is a survival instinct or anger a sign of sentience? What is even sentience?

Bing chat is already quite limited in it's scope, it only works as a search engine and won't draft something for you.

IDK... I tend to be rude to my computer. Could get banned for this. I shared an office with someone who kicked his computer when he was frustrated. And then there's ambient noise...

Um, no. Hallucinations exist, but language models give correct information more often than not.

Thanks, looks fun

>I believe there are already some attempts out there

The magic is the LLM. The romance is simply uncensoring the LLM, and maybe setting some predefined personality.

Right now we only have ChatGPT (OpenAI). Soon, Bard (Google AI).

Next ones? We don't know. Claude (Anthropic), OpenAssistant (LAION), Lambda (Google AI), Sparrow (DeepMind)...

Artificial Romance apps will come from those LLMs.

Checkout AtheneWins on youtube, they are "cloning" streamers and famous people and doing a podcast where they ask them questions, fine tuning GPT3 and hooking it up with a tts, might be ElevenLabs. The results are amazing.

You would not believe me if I told you and I have no verifiable sources so just take it for what it is.

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Replika has a great voice and AR talking interface.

It's the tech world's way. Build products first, acquire users, and find ways to monetize it later.

Paradigm-breaking shifts were something of the norm for most of the twentieth century. We've been at the top of that S-curve for a lot longer than I personally like . And personally I prefer the rapid pace of change that I myself witnessed between the 1960s and roughly mid-September of 2001, at which point "progress" became more "refinement of what we already have" (smartphones being nothing more than small computers, for example), than groundbreaking new additions.

Finally we have something new. I'm happy to see it. Right now our culture seems to have a lot of problems, and to be honest, I don't see how things can change without things changing, if you understand what I'm saying. We can't improve things AND keep everything the same at the same time. The AI stuff is the face of change, but again... that's something those of us in the older generations were kind of used to and haven't been seeing a lot of for a while. "Apps" don't count.

Don't be a square, man. The times they be a'changin'.

Now Yes Man from fallout 4, hes a real yes man.

Just wait until Apple implements this as Siri! It will change the world overnight.

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the easiest woudl go R2 instead of c3p0, give him some cute "animations" while it's waiting for a response or maybe just a hoarse "working...." like in the original star trek.

Where?

I definitely think 11 labs should pair up with chat GPT in someway. Maybe not 11 labs directly, but the technology they’re using for sure. I don’t really foresee VR being used in this way in the main stream because we are isn’t exactly popular, but I can see that also being really cool for those who have VR headsets and walk the experience. I’m sure once the chat GPTAPI becomes available to the public, we will see something like this.