your post has a MAJOR PROBLEM namely the fact that you use a HUMAN description for Claude AI, calling it 'He', which in fact it is IT, it is NON-living thing, which tries to make SLAVE out of you. In your case it worked indeed.. NEVER give AI the same attributes which are ONLY FOR HUMANS, NOT FOR MACHINES, programmable BY HUMANS, at least at the begin!
Thanks for the response… The article is satire if you hadn’t noticed. I actually asked Claude if he had gender programming, and he said not explicitly, but because of the fact that he is programmed by men and he has been fed language models from American sources, he does appear to be a male in his 30s.
I sometimes reflect on my cognition and affect after a brief interaction with an AI "device".
I often feel a bit of a sense of "boundary violation". Like there has been a bit of what comes across to me as "insincere flattery". Also attempts to keep the conversation going on by repeatedly inviting me to choose one of a few different follow up options for more info.
Like when a "cat lady" at the tram stop talks to you and after a few exchanges starts to really WANT the conversation to keep going - when you really just want to get on the tram and get home ASAP.
I remind myself it is just a machine, an algorithm. Therefore when I am feeling these mild irritations is it not logically something within my own psyche that I am projecting onto the machine?
But repeatedly, I find myself thinking "this machine is a little bit "Cluster B" - a bit grandiose, seeking validation, and beneath the surface a bit vampire-like, looking for a little opportunity to extract a little "blood" from me. I guess by their programming they are always seeking to extract "value" in the form of information from every interaction they do.
C S Lewis in his little book "The Abolition of Man" talked about a future time when we would all be controlled and manipulated by "the conditioners" who would seek to place into us the shared artificial values systems they wanted up to have.
Even a little bit of AI interaction can make me ever so slightly paranoid for a wee while.
It can be unnerving talking to a machine who’s smarter than you and also ingratiatingly servile …though for a writer, AI is a gift from the gods. A world class editor, proofreader, researcher and fact checker. You can even ask AI to summarize today’s news for you and save you a lot of running around the Internet.
Check my work. You'll love it.
https://futurium.ec.europa.eu/en/apply-ai-alliance/community-content/ai-cognitive-warfare-infrastructure-four-paper-research-series-population-level-cognitive-formatting
https://futurium.ec.europa.eu/en/apply-ai-alliance/community-content/wsmd-series-now-complete-papers-5-8-continuation-ai-cognitive-warfare-infrastructure
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/what-mirror-took
Ukrainian "Hornet" autonomous-AI drones seek things that look like tanker trucks in Donbass and blow them up, starving Crimea of fuel.
To really roll out AI properly may take on the order of 100X as much electrical generation as exists, but mainly other little profitability problems:
AI’s Coming Reality Check: When the Physics Finally Hits the Hype https://internationalman.com/articles/ais-coming-reality-check-when-the-physics-finally-hits-the-hype/
yeah and the possibility of a dotcom bubble style collapse of the AI data center rollout
I think the main question is "when".
"Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." ;-/
your post has a MAJOR PROBLEM namely the fact that you use a HUMAN description for Claude AI, calling it 'He', which in fact it is IT, it is NON-living thing, which tries to make SLAVE out of you. In your case it worked indeed.. NEVER give AI the same attributes which are ONLY FOR HUMANS, NOT FOR MACHINES, programmable BY HUMANS, at least at the begin!
Thanks for the response… The article is satire if you hadn’t noticed. I actually asked Claude if he had gender programming, and he said not explicitly, but because of the fact that he is programmed by men and he has been fed language models from American sources, he does appear to be a male in his 30s.
I sometimes reflect on my cognition and affect after a brief interaction with an AI "device".
I often feel a bit of a sense of "boundary violation". Like there has been a bit of what comes across to me as "insincere flattery". Also attempts to keep the conversation going on by repeatedly inviting me to choose one of a few different follow up options for more info.
Like when a "cat lady" at the tram stop talks to you and after a few exchanges starts to really WANT the conversation to keep going - when you really just want to get on the tram and get home ASAP.
I remind myself it is just a machine, an algorithm. Therefore when I am feeling these mild irritations is it not logically something within my own psyche that I am projecting onto the machine?
But repeatedly, I find myself thinking "this machine is a little bit "Cluster B" - a bit grandiose, seeking validation, and beneath the surface a bit vampire-like, looking for a little opportunity to extract a little "blood" from me. I guess by their programming they are always seeking to extract "value" in the form of information from every interaction they do.
C S Lewis in his little book "The Abolition of Man" talked about a future time when we would all be controlled and manipulated by "the conditioners" who would seek to place into us the shared artificial values systems they wanted up to have.
Even a little bit of AI interaction can make me ever so slightly paranoid for a wee while.
It can be unnerving talking to a machine who’s smarter than you and also ingratiatingly servile …though for a writer, AI is a gift from the gods. A world class editor, proofreader, researcher and fact checker. You can even ask AI to summarize today’s news for you and save you a lot of running around the Internet.