Oct 21, 2024 06:21 PM
Anyone can turn you into an AI chatbot. There’s little you can do to stop them
https://www.wired.com/story/characterai-...t-problem/
EXCERPT: Drew Crecente has no idea who created the Character.AI persona of his deceased daughter. While he may never find out who created the persona of his daughter, it appears that people with ties to the gaming community often get turned into bots on the platform. Many of them don't even know the bots exist, and can have a much harder time getting them removed. Legally, it’s actually easier to have a fictional character removed... (MORE - missing details)
On expertise
https://mostly.substack.com/p/on-expertise
INTRO: Expertise slows the progress of knowledge, some say. First, it delays arrival at the cutting edge: if you must master everything that came before, you may not begin original research until your 30s, when your brain is a rigid fossil and retirement is already near. Also, it blinds you to new ideas: after years of seeing with accepted principles, reliance on those principles becomes second nature, a dusty, comfortable cow-path in your mind, and new and better ideas—the advances possible by coming at things sideways—become invisible.
In The Lever of Riches Joel Mokyr documents one after another innovation created by amateurs just messing around, or discovered by accident by people working in other fields, while the so-called experts got nowhere. Serious money was invested by governments and corporations into the research and development of flying machines, only for all of them to be beaten by two bicycle mechanics from Ohio, working on their own.
On the other hand, there’s the story of convoy in World War II... (MORE - details)
https://www.wired.com/story/characterai-...t-problem/
EXCERPT: Drew Crecente has no idea who created the Character.AI persona of his deceased daughter. While he may never find out who created the persona of his daughter, it appears that people with ties to the gaming community often get turned into bots on the platform. Many of them don't even know the bots exist, and can have a much harder time getting them removed. Legally, it’s actually easier to have a fictional character removed... (MORE - missing details)
On expertise
https://mostly.substack.com/p/on-expertise
INTRO: Expertise slows the progress of knowledge, some say. First, it delays arrival at the cutting edge: if you must master everything that came before, you may not begin original research until your 30s, when your brain is a rigid fossil and retirement is already near. Also, it blinds you to new ideas: after years of seeing with accepted principles, reliance on those principles becomes second nature, a dusty, comfortable cow-path in your mind, and new and better ideas—the advances possible by coming at things sideways—become invisible.
In The Lever of Riches Joel Mokyr documents one after another innovation created by amateurs just messing around, or discovered by accident by people working in other fields, while the so-called experts got nowhere. Serious money was invested by governments and corporations into the research and development of flying machines, only for all of them to be beaten by two bicycle mechanics from Ohio, working on their own.
On the other hand, there’s the story of convoy in World War II... (MORE - details)