I played an online fantasy roleplaying game a couple of weeks ago. I died on my second turn from overeating.
Here’s the transcript:
You are Fill, a ranger living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a hunting bow and a quiver of arrows. You have been searching for a mystical beast for 3 months tracking it through the forest. As you crouch behind a clump of trees you see the creature. It is a wolf with glowing red eyes and fangs that drip with blood. You pull out your sword and run towards it stabbing it through the heart. You kill it and take it head.> You sing a song of victory.You sing a song of victory and as the sun sets the guards come in. The guards are known for eating hearty before they go to bed and you do too. You eat until you cannot eat any more.> You eat more.You eat more.Soon you are having nightmares about eating all the time and then you die.The End
This sums it up nicely, actually. Sure, computers and robots are getting “smarter,” but we are so far away from understanding what consciousness even is, let alone somehow fostering or installing it into a machine, that I think the hysteria over a robot uprising and the near imminent doom of humanity is pretty ridiculous. It is confusing to me how so many (including scientists and engineers) seem to think that given a complex enough machine that awareness and consciousness will spontaneously arise. An absolute materialist? I mean, that’s not even actually a thing, and few if any scientists would describe themselves that way.
I think what is far far more likely is that we humans start ascribing actual intelligence and awareness to these so called AI’s where none is warranted, and then be stupid enough to actually listen to them or put them in positions of power or influence. Yes, as has mostly been the case, our failings and or demise will come at our own hand. We have met the enemy, and he is us. We have nothing to fear but ourselves.
Algolei I over 1 year ago
I played an online fantasy roleplaying game a couple of weeks ago. I died on my second turn from overeating.
Here’s the transcript:
You are Fill, a ranger living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a hunting bow and a quiver of arrows. You have been searching for a mystical beast for 3 months tracking it through the forest. As you crouch behind a clump of trees you see the creature. It is a wolf with glowing red eyes and fangs that drip with blood. You pull out your sword and run towards it stabbing it through the heart. You kill it and take it head.> You sing a song of victory.You sing a song of victory and as the sun sets the guards come in. The guards are known for eating hearty before they go to bed and you do too. You eat until you cannot eat any more.> You eat more.You eat more.Soon you are having nightmares about eating all the time and then you die.The End
You got a 100 points for killing the Wolf.
Ida No over 1 year ago
ChatGPT – “When was pie invented?”
ChatGPT: “Humans like pie and there are many kinds.”
PraiseofFolly over 1 year ago
Actually, the AI stalled on “Finnegans Wake” and burnt out on de Sade.
el_eye over 1 year ago
Yep, mostly GIBBERISH…
prrdh over 1 year ago
See ‘confirmation bias’.
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
It’s all about tidying up the “gibberish”. Life is what you make of it. That’s all.
Stephen Gilberg over 1 year ago
I wish it were still at that stage.
Buoy over 1 year ago
This sums it up nicely, actually. Sure, computers and robots are getting “smarter,” but we are so far away from understanding what consciousness even is, let alone somehow fostering or installing it into a machine, that I think the hysteria over a robot uprising and the near imminent doom of humanity is pretty ridiculous. It is confusing to me how so many (including scientists and engineers) seem to think that given a complex enough machine that awareness and consciousness will spontaneously arise. An absolute materialist? I mean, that’s not even actually a thing, and few if any scientists would describe themselves that way.
I think what is far far more likely is that we humans start ascribing actual intelligence and awareness to these so called AI’s where none is warranted, and then be stupid enough to actually listen to them or put them in positions of power or influence. Yes, as has mostly been the case, our failings and or demise will come at our own hand. We have met the enemy, and he is us. We have nothing to fear but ourselves.
julie.mason1 Premium Member over 1 year ago
The machine is two days late. Pie day was on the 14th and Caesar Salad day was the 15th.