I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You Mention AI Again

Paul Graham: There are already a huge number of books written by (or for) people who are ambitious for fame but have nothing original to say. AI is going to multiply this number shockingly. ChatGPT is these people's dream.

Related: AI will cause an increase in the number of PhDs in fields like education, where merely writing a dissertation of the re

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In its desperate hunger for clicks, much of the media has decided to endorse a maximalist interpretation of what AI might do. I’ve cataloged them before: disrupt every industry, eliminate poverty and need, send us off of into the stars, end death. Or, alternatively, threaten everything we’ve built, provoke dystopia, exterminate humanity. Take your ... See more

While I personally wouldn’t go so far as to describe current LLMs as “a solution in search of a problem” like cryptocurrency has famously been described as, I do think the description rings true in an overall economic/business sense so far. Was there really a great crying need for new ways to cheat on academic essays? Probably not. Will chatting wi... See more

AI is still in the robot voice phase. Even when you ask it to do impressions, it comes up with these weird, dramatic caricatures. Unfortunately I think this is temporarily and AI could become the ultimate imitation machine.

In terms of "AI making you more you," my hope has always been to have something like this. Basically, if I have a million words

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