Consider the plight of hypothetical artificially intelligent beings. This study worries about exactly that: “Taking AI Welfare Seriously,” Robert Long, Jeff Sebo, Patrick Butlin, Kathleen Finlinson, Kyle Fish, Jacqueline Harding, Jacob Pfau, Toni Sims, Jonathan Birch, and David Chalmers, arXiv 2411.00986, 2024. The authors explain: “We argue that there is a realistic possibility that some […]
The Huffington Post reports another misstep on the road to Artificial Intelligence: “Man Who Tried To Have Sex With Mailbox Found Dead“. (TECHNICAL NOTE: This male-on-mail sex where one participant is alive and the other is not, does not qualify as homosexual necrophilia.) Here’s a medical journal report about a similar, perhaps simpler attempt, 28 years earlier, by […]
Is this a pair of computer programs reacting to, and seemingly conversing with, each other? Or is it merely something concocted to appear to be that? And does it matter which is the case? [HT Jan Chiles] BONUS: More of same: BONUS: Alexis Madrigal’s “The Only Thing Weirder Than a Telemarketing Robot“
William Topaz McGonagall who died in 1902, is widely regarded as the writer of the worst poetry in the English language. As an example, see this video featuring Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame) interpreting the poem ‘Stirling Castle’. McGonagall has now become one of the very few famous poets to have a computer programme […]