Amazon announced that it will invest up to $4 billion into Anthropic — the AI startup best known for its Claude chatbot and founded by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei who used to work for OpenAI.
This deal is on the cheap in comparison to the reported $13 billion that Microsoft has so far invested into OpenAI, the biggest name in generative AI technology right now, but that partnership has been going strong since since 2019. Regardless, the deal shows that Amazon is trying to participate in the AI games. When publishing an eBook in KDP you now have to tell Amazon if you used AI to generate graphics or text and you have to tell them what AI tools that you used.
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One definition of AI is:
The ability of a computer or a robot controlled by a computer to do tasks that are usually done by humans because they require human intelligence and discernment. I would sort of add that it is basically a bot program with the ability to program itself or learn.
What is human intelligence? Mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment.
To what degree can a computer program mimic human intelligence? That is an open question.
But back to the news item…
Anthropic’s Claude and Claude 2 large language model–based chatbots are similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard in that they can translate text, write code, and answer various questions, but Anthropic says its model is safer and more reliable because it’s guided by a set of principles. Well, you know, reading that pisses me off. I was doing images on Bing’s chatbot/AI and for some reason it threatened to ban me. When I want to do sexy pictures I go to an AI that allows that. I don’t do that on Bing and I was not breaking any rules. But hell, I think if the AI had been on a helicopter with me, and I had farted, it would have thrown me out of the helicopter. Asshole.
“Set of principles.” What does that mean? Censorship? Turning logic upside down like Social Media has been doing by calling hate love, and calling debate hate. Hate is not calling someone a poopyhead when they are pissing you off. Hate is that someone throwing you out of a helicopter when you are pissing them off. Hate is actually hurting someone by doing harm to them such as kicking them off of social media, giving them a low social credit score, telling them they can no longer make money on youtube, getting them fired from their job and doing actual harm to someone. Make no mistake, the haters are not the people who use the n word. The haters are the people who want to kill you and your family because you use the n word. Now understand, these upside down crazy people who don’t even understand the concept of true hate are the ones programming AI. Hate is Burger King trying to force a dick in your mouth, to muzzle you, because it took some woman ten years to wipe the smile off her face to accuse you of some drunken sex shit that neither of you probably even remember clearly–except the smile of course.
There is a reason that Harlan Ellison, James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, or whoever you want to give most of the credit for the Terminator Movie with, came up with the idea of Skynet. A lot of times when you are writing,, you go into what I call a channeling state where you start picking up on ideas from the metaphysical world whether it is from an angel, a demon, a ghost, or maybe just the computer program that our souls are trapped in. Regardless, the words you are writing have a great deal more meaning than the words that might come out of your conscious brain. And the idea that AI might be dangerous predates when people could so clearly see how insane the people running parts of the computer industry, the social media and not so social media, are.
In the movie, what was Skynet? Skynet was a fictional artificial neural network-based conscious group mind and artificial general superintelligence system that served as the antagonistic force of the Terminator franchise.
In the real world what is skynet? SKYNET is a program by the U.S. National Security Agency that performs machine learning analysis on communications data to extract information about possible terror suspects. Skynet has murdered (in more loosely defined terms) using operated drones in violation of the space treaty, 12,000 people (including 400 children) that we know about it. There is no estimate to the amount of economic damage it has done to people who have used the N word or broken some other unsocial social media rule. We know that some people, who have been banned from making money online or otherwise have been given a gun to put in their mouth, is because of SKYNET directly or indirectly coaxing UnSocial Social Media to do its evil.
To what degree is Microsoft, Google, and now Amazon helping the government with its SKYNET operations to destroy lives and perhaps even murder people?