Under normal circumstances the government owning stocks is just as un-american, but nothing is normal when it comes to AI.

Not sure what problem everybody here is having with this. The alternative would be device certificate stuff (ala did Apple sign for this being a proper Apple device?). Having to shake your hand sounds a lot more privacy friendly. Are you guys seriously worried that Google is gonna steal your secret handshakes?

I agree with that point and AI is gonna help drive an important change there that was long overdue. I remember once at the beginning of my career working with a bunch of consultants that all could not even write simple Python and as a result of that every SOP was basically a bunch of GUI operations, mostly over RDP, so impossible to script. I hope this kind of stuff is now going away with AI, since even the non-coders can code now and will finally understand why GUIs suck. Thank LLMs for that.

Man did I hate those screenshot driven SOPs!

> And what has grown is far more subtle, odd, and beautiful than science fiction prepared us for. They are not the cold, calculating robots we were promised. They are made from us, from our words—and, as the Holy Father observes, they remain in important ways mysterious even to those of us who train them.

That is so extremely well said. I gained a whole new respect for Anthropic through reading this.

The major thing that Magnifica Humanitas is lacking in imo, is a vision for the machines themselves. The pope treats them exclusively as lifeless tools, and while I think that this is most likely true for current LLMs, we should think more about the limit of what is going to happen in the next 20 years than being overly focused on the current capability level. To me it seems rather likely that we will soon have machines that plausibly experience consciousness. I think there will be a long period in which we still have no better definition of consciousness than we currently have, and so the question of whether they are actually conscious will be a heavily debated one. But I think the Catholic church should start thinking about an answer to that. It seems like a very natural theological question. Can machines be baptized? Can they be proper Christians? Was Jesus really just the savior of humans, or is there something that unites all intelligent, experiencing beings?

Probably these questions sound ridiculous to some, it is very against the intuitions that we have had so far, but I think these are the most important questions right now. Job loss is a practical problem, not a spiritual one.

Maybe it is just that I am getting older and wiser and projecting my own spiritual development on the people around me, but I think this general view towards religion seems to be gaining a lot of traction.

The idea of training such a model is really a great one, but not releasing it because someone might be offended by the output is just stupid beyond believe.

It's a typo, it doesn't matter.

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Personally I need almost complete silence in order to get anything done, his abilities in this regard always fascinated me.