The only way I would ever even consider this is if the firmware was open source and the software to interact with it was open source and it had no direct connection to any sort of network at all and required an external device that I could turn off or on to connect to it an external network. Oh, and the hardware would need to be open source as well.
I’ve been evangelising for smart glasses for years. But even if they get the functionality I’ve been hoping for I’m still not going to get them, because i don’t want every woman i meet to think I’m secretly recording her tits
There’s no way I’m letting Elon musk do brain surgery on me to harvest my thoughts
People forget about the other genders when it comes to the issues with smart glasses. And kids. Where is the “for the safety of our children” mob, when we need one?
Too bad I can’t trust either the competence or intent of those with resources to create brain chips. Sorry teenaged me that desperately wanted true VR, but I’ll probably decline it even if it becomes a thing.
So many people are already functionally hooked up, even if it is happening through their eyes and not a direct wire. Prove me wrong, everybody: don’t touch any of your devices for a week. It’s nigh unthinkable now but I remember times when the internet didn’t exist, cell phones didn’t exist, I had no cable TV, no game console, and would only turn on my little black and white Mac to write a paper for school. We listened to music a lot, socialized in person, smoked a lot of… various things, had a lot of sex. It’s a rather poor trade we’ve made if you ask me.
People still do all that, go to a festival and you’ll see plenty of that, it’s just downtime between social events is filled in by phones
Those people don’t exist anymore.
How anyone could trust them at this point blows my mind, outside of people who need a fucking hail mary like those with neurological disorders.
Idk. I don’t know if I’ll be able to stop from being a bigot towards people who get chips in their brain. Like I simply do not think I will be capable of holding my tongue. Again, unless the chip is literally the only reason they can live a normal life, those people shouldn’t be treated like people.
A report in Politico details a TED talk in Vancouver last month
Oh so it’s just rambling musings of some self-important CEO rather than any actual declaration of intent.
There are some good TED talks but a lot of them are just hot air.
Even joking about this, should have your dick be shoved in a woodchipper.
I feel like the bar is extremely low for TED talks these days. But maybe it has just changed to a financial one instead of an intellectual one.
This is me as soon as this happens:
We could be granting everyone in the world a high standard of living but instead we’re going to charge them to self-induce early onset neurodegenerative disease.
If you can’t beat them, join them.
If LLMs keep their current level of capability growth for just a few more years … I want a more direct connection.
And yes, this comment is likely to be down voted to hell 😘
We’ve update the terms and conditions. Your subscription to Brainchip has gone up 10x in price. You may pay a $100k termination fee to cover the chip extraction costs. Have a nice day
Failure to pay extraction cost will result in chip self destruction which will result in death.
No, I will make my owm AI apocalypse. through a series of impossibly dumb safety sabotages
The worst parts of Severance + Pluribus
If by “for a while” you mean “until I’m dead” . . then yea, sure. Any other definition . . no chance in hell.
Thing is, I remember a time when getting cosmetic surgery / Botox was the “I’d never do that” thing. Now it’s getting harder to find people in the public eye who haven’t had it.
I think all it’d take is Google/Apple/Meta/MS to normalize the requirement.
Then the neura-zombies get programmed to force others to use it.
Over my dead body.
Also, this is laughable:
We’re on the cusp of the next major transition, the merger of humans and AI.
These guys don’t even have true AI yet, just a text predictor on steroids that frequently hallucinates and gets things wrong.
I can guarantee you these tech bros take it seriously. Because they don’t have to pay taxes and have boat loads of money it means they are quite serious.
It’s because they’re in so much debt they need to run forward to outrun it by… Getting into even more debt on the basis that this time it will payoff
The cope is really deep in the tech sector. Way too many imbeciles who think they’re geniuses and too much VC to throw around.
Always been this way, no? Sometimes, though, the imbeciles hire very competent people
It’s much worse now. Some of these people actually did impressive things earlier in the 21st century. Now they’re 90% grifters
Well, yes, but there was also a lot of bullshit that we simply dont remember because it disappeared after the great purge that was the internet bubble pop
90% is very generous.
AI is incredible if you ask it about stuff you’re not an expert on. Once you ask it those things you already have expert level knowledge on, especially nuanced questions, you’ll start to see the issues. It won’t be every question it gets wrong, but it’s often enough to be an issue.
In other words, it’s all an illusion. It’s a ruse to get us to feed it our thoughts, so it can summarize our files and our queries, and it can feed us the responses it is told to feed us.
We already know it can do that since they’re placing fucking ads in it.
The actual article is much more informative than a rando’s ramblings.
It’s still just a report on things that Sam Altman and his ilk says, it has a much as much validity as Elon Musk claiming that we’re going to have cities on Mars by the end of next year. I’ve never been able to decide if these idiots actually believe the things they are spouting or if they’re just trying to get more investment but either way it’s not worth paying any actual attention to them.
Assuming we’re even on the right path towards superhuman AI (personally I can’t see large language models actually leading anywhere) we’re certainly only at the start of that journey, it’s pointless to muse about what the end would look like because we have no idea what kind of technology will have by the end, it could be a century or more from now.
Regardless the people deciding on that technology will be scientists not rich CEOs with over inflated salaries who can barely wire up a light switch, let alone design a brain implant.
Im pretty sure they’re trying to do the H2G2 trick of using the finite probability engine to produce the infinite improbability engine.
No, I don’t think I will
