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Ewan Morrison

@mrewanmorrison

Writer. New novel FOR EMMA.
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Belief in AI is a secular religion. AI advocates use the language of Abrahamic faiths. They say: AGI will arrive one day as a higher consciousness. It will be immortal & teach us how to live better. It will save humanity or end it. One Google manager said "We are creating God."

Belief in AI is a secular religion.
AI advocates use the language of Abrahamic faiths. They say:
AGI will arrive one day as a higher consciousness.
It will be immortal & teach us how to live better.
It will save humanity or end it.
One Google manager said "We are creating God."
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ā€œThe characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.ā€ ― Jose Ortega y Gasset

ā€œThe characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.ā€ 

― Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The 4 new versions of ChatGPT have a factual error rate of between 48% and 90.5%. That's hallucinations & mal-information. (According to Open AI study - see comments). Why would any company, govt agency or news provider want to intruduce that margin of error into their work?

The 4 new versions of ChatGPT have a factual error rate of between 48% and 90.5%.
That's hallucinations & mal-information.

(According to Open AI study - see comments).

Why would any company, govt agency or news provider want to intruduce that margin of error into their work?
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When people believe that they have a spiritual connection with a chatbot, they've fallen for "The Eliza Effect". I wrote an article explaining the history of this from the 1960s, and how this all too human weakness has been exploited by AI companies. ewanmorrison.substack.com/p/the-eliza-ef…

When people believe that they have a spiritual connection with a chatbot, they've fallen for "The Eliza Effect". I wrote an article explaining the history of this from the 1960s, and how this all too human weakness has been exploited by AI companies.
ewanmorrison.substack.com/p/the-eliza-ef…
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We are living within a fiction. A big-tech science-fiction. My article. Cheers. Link: arcadepublishing.substack.com/p/we-are-livin…

We are living within a fiction.
A big-tech science-fiction.

My article.
Cheers.
Link: arcadepublishing.substack.com/p/we-are-livin…
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ā€œa pair of spanielsā€ Given that AGI is imminent as some say, I am comforted by the fact that I shall die laughing.

ā€œa pair of spanielsā€

Given that AGI is imminent as some say, I am comforted by the fact that I shall die laughing.
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For those who say that fiction has become a province for women only, I submit my freshly published and duly received copy of Ewan Morrison dark novel For Emma. Is it science fiction or AI hallucination? Go out and buy one. Read it. Then you tell me what you think. And for my

For those who say that fiction has become a province for women only, I submit my freshly published and duly received copy of <a href="/MrEwanMorrison/">Ewan Morrison</a> dark novel For Emma. Is it science fiction or AI hallucination? Go out and buy one. Read it. Then you tell me what you think. 
And for my
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A standard example of tech accelerationist mindset. When spelled out simply it is fantastical nonsense based on sci-fi. Now consider that this kind of talk is being used by AI companies to entice venture capitalists into investing in them.

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Ewan Morrison The TechnoProfits with their teenage SciFi fantasies of infinite life and limitless galactic travel to Infinity and Beyond are going to crater humanity in their quests. How do you cure Billionaire Disease short of an Apocalyptic event? Their arrogance and hubris are terrifying.

<a href="/MrEwanMorrison/">Ewan Morrison</a> The TechnoProfits with their teenage SciFi fantasies of infinite life and limitless galactic travel to Infinity and Beyond are going to crater humanity in their quests.
How do you cure Billionaire Disease short of an Apocalyptic event? Their arrogance and hubris are terrifying.
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One of the biggest copes by AI pushers - after you point out that LLMs have an error rate of 48-90% goes like this: ā€œOk, AI is flawed and makes many mistakes but so do humans- therefore AI must be close to human level intelligence.ā€

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Musk’s ā€œMars Colony Projectā€ is a Platonic ā€œnoble lieā€ - intended to give the hopeless generations of the lost & demotivated something to believe in and strive for. The problem is that it’s an idea ripped from retro sci-fi. ā€œA new world awaits you in the off world coloniesā€.

Musk’s ā€œMars Colony Projectā€ is a Platonic ā€œnoble lieā€ - intended to give the hopeless generations of the lost &amp; demotivated something to believe in and strive for. 

The problem is that it’s an idea ripped from retro sci-fi.
ā€œA new world awaits you in the off world coloniesā€.