I do not want to quote anything in particular from this article, but I *do* want to point out that unchecked, uncontrolled growth which steals resources from surrounding tissue is commonly called a tumor.
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I do not want to quote anything in particular from this article, but I *do* want to point out that unchecked, uncontrolled growth which steals resources from surrounding tissue is commonly called a tumor.
https://fortune.com/2025/09/24/sam-altman-ai-empire-new-york-city-san-diego-scary/ -
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I do not want to quote anything in particular from this article, but I *do* want to point out that unchecked, uncontrolled growth which steals resources from surrounding tissue is commonly called a tumor.
https://fortune.com/2025/09/24/sam-altman-ai-empire-new-york-city-san-diego-scary/@lilithsaintcrow Unfortunately, AI is coming online fast. I understand everyone has opinions about it, but from the first computers to AI has been a long slog. AI is inevitable. It's a race as real as the race to the moon in the late 60s; or, even the race to the atom bomb before that. I'm not trying to oversell or undersell it either. It's just another tool in our own mammalian attempt to exist in nature, for better or worse. Also, like the first computers, they are large energy hogs.
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@lilithsaintcrow Unfortunately, AI is coming online fast. I understand everyone has opinions about it, but from the first computers to AI has been a long slog. AI is inevitable. It's a race as real as the race to the moon in the late 60s; or, even the race to the atom bomb before that. I'm not trying to oversell or undersell it either. It's just another tool in our own mammalian attempt to exist in nature, for better or worse. Also, like the first computers, they are large energy hogs.
@lednaBM @lilithsaintcrow #AI is only inevitable in the sense that "unless we stop them, somebody will market & try to sell a fraudulent product that doesn't do what they promise".
In any literal sence, i.e. actual Artificial Intelligence? We don't even know if weak AI is possible, let alone AGI - so no, not inevitable at all.
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@lednaBM @lilithsaintcrow #AI is only inevitable in the sense that "unless we stop them, somebody will market & try to sell a fraudulent product that doesn't do what they promise".
In any literal sence, i.e. actual Artificial Intelligence? We don't even know if weak AI is possible, let alone AGI - so no, not inevitable at all.
@jwcph @lilithsaintcrow Agree to disagree here somewhat. It seems a shallow understanding of what AI can & will do. But let's just stick to the first and foremost BCNRW. Do you know what this stands for? To save you a search, it stands for Biologic, Chemical, Nuclear, & Radiological Weapons. The implications here alone should be obvious, rather than the mundane notion of it's going to create fraudulent products. Again, AI is simply a tool to be employed for whatever positives or negatives it can
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@jwcph @lilithsaintcrow Agree to disagree here somewhat. It seems a shallow understanding of what AI can & will do. But let's just stick to the first and foremost BCNRW. Do you know what this stands for? To save you a search, it stands for Biologic, Chemical, Nuclear, & Radiological Weapons. The implications here alone should be obvious, rather than the mundane notion of it's going to create fraudulent products. Again, AI is simply a tool to be employed for whatever positives or negatives it can
@lednaBM Ah, moving goalposts, another sign of an “AI” evangelist. Take ypur basilisk religion and bad-faith rhetorical devices elsewhere, please.
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@lednaBM Ah, moving goalposts, another sign of an “AI” evangelist. Take ypur basilisk religion and bad-faith rhetorical devices elsewhere, please.
@lilithsaintcrow @lednaBM Also, "what AI can do" is a nonsense statement, because, well, what AI? It's a marketing term that currently can mean literally anything.
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@lilithsaintcrow @lednaBM Also, "what AI can do" is a nonsense statement, because, well, what AI? It's a marketing term that currently can mean literally anything.
@jwcph @lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com Well here again, I think there's a bit of a context problem. When I say, "...what it can & will do," I'm referring to it as a tool. I think, as you rightly might assert, we need to take the marketing out of the equation. In the hands of a human, a hammer "can and will do" many things that can't be done without a hammer. So, I'll repeat AI is a tool. So, let's, indeed, not pretend it's what the corporatist media-infotainment complex needs us to believe for clicks.
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@jwcph @lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com Well here again, I think there's a bit of a context problem. When I say, "...what it can & will do," I'm referring to it as a tool. I think, as you rightly might assert, we need to take the marketing out of the equation. In the hands of a human, a hammer "can and will do" many things that can't be done without a hammer. So, I'll repeat AI is a tool. So, let's, indeed, not pretend it's what the corporatist media-infotainment complex needs us to believe for clicks.
@lednaBM You're full of shit, you know that? Are you, in fact, ChatGPT?
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@lednaBM You're full of shit, you know that? Are you, in fact, ChatGPT?
@jwcph And, you are hereby muted for being an ill-mannered numbskull incapable of honest dialog.
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@jwcph And, you are hereby muted for being an ill-mannered numbskull incapable of honest dialog.
#wackatroll@lednaBM Aww. I has a sad.
