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Jathan Sadowski of This Machine Kills podcast joins the gang to talk about the “new” generation of AI models announced by Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and others - all of which seem to want to imitate the movie Her. The value proposition of this to a normal person is unclear.

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-Kris-

Speaking of theories of mind: "the goal is to make conversation obsolete because it will perfectly predict what information you want and when you'll want it." Obviously this won't happen, but I find it interesting because, if Karl Friston's Free Energy Minimization model of consciousness is correct, succeeding at this would essentially reduce people to unconscious; awake and moving but completely zoned out and unaware. Sleepwalking in a more literal than metaphorical sense.

-Kris-

Biden's AI best friend telling him the Great Lakes were a gift from Earth Rider would make a lot of sense