I've been Youtube'd
Feb. 16th, 2024 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purplecatMy attention has just been drawn to this video which dicusses this paper (which is also summarised in this article in the Conversation) on which I am an author but which I haven't mentioned here previously because well a) I was waiting for some kind of instruction to blog though, in retrospect, I'm not sure what I was expecting any such instruction to look like and b) I'm not 100% convinced by futurism as a practice even having indulged in it and, I suppose, c) I do not want this to be my contribution to the sum total of human knowledge.
Anyway the funder is pleased. In fact it was the funder who pointed out the video to me.
One of my PhD students has also informed me that she is now the envy of all the other PhD students because her supervisor wrote such a cool paper.
I am sad that the big public awareness paper himself wrote was about how Tyrannosaurus rex would, if given half a chance, chase down and eat David Beckham. What I get is a paper that has the words AI, Megadeath, Blockchain and Quantum computing all in it at once. At least, I suppose, I managed to keep the phrase "Rogue AI" out of the Conversation piece.
Anyway the funder is pleased. In fact it was the funder who pointed out the video to me.
One of my PhD students has also informed me that she is now the envy of all the other PhD students because her supervisor wrote such a cool paper.
I am sad that the big public awareness paper himself wrote was about how Tyrannosaurus rex would, if given half a chance, chase down and eat David Beckham. What I get is a paper that has the words AI, Megadeath, Blockchain and Quantum computing all in it at once. At least, I suppose, I managed to keep the phrase "Rogue AI" out of the Conversation piece.
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Date: 2024-02-16 06:44 pm (UTC)* I'd add an appropriate dystopian skiffy reference here but I don't consume tech dystopia media, lol. Anyway, imagine yourself in a White Labcoat of Science in one of those shiny conference rooms with a vast table, The Funder, and his (inevitably) many attendant flunkeys. Although I'm afraid your character usually dies of hubris before the end of the movie, unless you become the Science Hero who destroys your own creation before it destroys us etc blah cliche etc. /winking smiley
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