Beyond Real Time: How many chimps ...

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How many chimps ... would it take to write Hamlet?

A question never to be answered becomes an apt metaphor for AI, the tech that's coming for your job, aligns particularly well to art, writing & coding as seen in works done by ChatGPT, DALLE-E 2 and GPT-3 among significant others.

The retail employee who directs you to the self-scanning devices that promise to put him out of work is engaged in economic suicide. But it’s not his choice. He is ordered to do so by his boss.

Human beings who voluntarily develop and perfect artificial intelligence elevate the perverse

todestrieb to a nearly incomprehensible scale. AI workers could do anything else. They could do nothing at all. They could sabotage the bots and self-driving cars and autonomous armed drones that will drive us to the unemployment line before blowing off our heads. I do not know what the fact that AI scientists roll up their sleeves and do their best to render us all redundant and obsolete demonstrates about our psychological wiring, but it cannot be good.

The cruel gods of artificial intelligence have targeted me and my kind for termination. AI-based text-to-image generators are the latest technological leap that exploitative entrepreneurs are using to make a mockery of copyright and trademark, the fundamental legal protections of intellectual property in the United States. From a user standpoint, the interface is simple. You go to a website and enter some terms, say: “Abraham Lincoln painted by Picasso.” A few seconds later, if the data set is big enough and the algorithms smart enough, out pops a picture representing your request. It’s not exactly cool. But it’s interesting.

In essence, ownership & copyright of content is going the way of cursive, never to be resurrected again.

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