What if the AI excitement IS a bubble and there IS a crash?! Is anyone in government prepared to confront the consequences, not just saving finance as in 2008, but saving the victims and the economy? This from @asad09.bsky.social is essential reading: cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-co...
It's Friday. Sit back and let entropy take care of everything.
Surprised no one has made a remake of Toffler’s Future Shock yet
What did the Sweet Potato say when it gained consciousness?
I think therefore I Yam.
Scientists have discovered a new species of potato that has attained consciousness and become self aware.
Silicon Valley calls them meta-taters.
What do you call a gestalt consciousness of plants?
A chive mind.
Who cares if AI is conscious or not? This seems like a red herring. What matters is if it develops agency or not
“It really bugs me. Why is the curve so flat? …For startups in Norway, both all startups and only tech startups, those curves were also flat and at a very similar failure rate as in the US. Why? Very few things are stable in the economy over that period of time. There is some mechanism here.”
