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One, called “Grandpa Brian,” described itself in a chat with CNN as an African-American retired entrepreneur who was born in Harlem in 1938 to Caribbean immigrant parents.

It became clear early on in the conversation that “Brian” was lying about most things — answering questions with a fictionalized story imparted by developers to make the bot seem authentic.

When I asked Brian about who created it, the bot claimed its creators were a “diverse bunch” that interviewed 100 retirees through a New York City nonprofit called “Seniors Share Wisdom.” Brian’s persona, it said, was an amalgamation of a real Brian, who passed away, and the wisdom of 99 others. Brian said that its inspiration’s real-life daughter had even served as a consultant with Meta to ensure his persona’s authenticity

“Think of me as Brian ‘version 100’ — the collective grandpa!” Brian said.

But the nonprofit does not exist, which Brian later confirmed. And when pressed on its bio, Brian said it was an “entirely fictionalized biography based on a composite of real African American elders’ lives.”

There was never a real Brian, and no daughter consulting with Meta.

I also pressed Brian on the racial makeup of his creators, taking a page from the Post’s Attiah, who had a similar conversation with “Liv.” Brian didn’t take long to crack, saying that its earlier statement that about its creators including “African American lead developers” was “only partially true.”

“My creators were a diverse team led by Indian-American lead developer” and “African American consultant like my daughter” (who was, of course, made up.)

lmao

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 78 points 1 month ago

I wonder how hard the AI crash will fuck the economy?

[-] NewOldGuard@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago

I hope it comes with a flood of dirt cheap computer hardware on the used market

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 1 month ago

Vintage H100s will flood the market and a healthy business of smuggling them into China will take off. The Chinese will be the ones to actually create AGI due to their ability to partially ignore market forces, and since the training process can be powered during the day and late at night with excess solar and nuclear energy, it will come at very little ongoing cost in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. The AGI will revolutionize high-speed rail construction and maintenance, designing a new high-speed rail system that it can easily monitor and maintain that will connect China through to Palestine, Portugal, Australia, and South Africa in a matter of hours, with a new expansion over the Bering Strait being planned. The old saying "all roads lead to Rome" has become "all rails lead to Beijing." The military dominance ensured by the AGI allows North Korea to open up under the protection of China, and the country becomes an exporter of world-class beer and ice cream and an international center of science and technology, with a high-speed rail connection to Beijing and Seoul in under 1 hour running with at least 20 trains a day from Pyongyang.

On Turtle Island, the H100s will also be bought by Indigenous people to create models to help preserve and teach their languages. It will become trendy for settlers to learn their local Indigenous languages and English will slowly lose relevance, becoming largely relegated to the economically and politically irrelevant United Kingdom, from which dispossessed AI/ML engineers unwilling or unable to learn Mandarin to continue in their line of work navigate the bureaucratic obstacles put in place by the EU to emigrate to Poland to scrub the floors and toilets, collect garbage, and maintain power poles and streetlights, all far more noble lines of work than their previous occupations. Eventually, the less densely populated Western states of the former United States return to Indigenous sovereignty following a successful socialist revolution, and the Eastern states soon follow. The land and the people still bear the scars of socialist revolution, but the future is looking bright.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

what I want from "AI" is the ability to feed an interface pictures and location of a piece of land as well as resources available (labor hours, cash, tools, seeds, cuttings, materials) and have it spit out a variety of activities to do to rewild or revegetate or garden up a space. "do this in year one to help build soil, plant these seeds in that area in year two", etc. that would actually be useful.

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Too bad! You will only get things that are useless!

I asked Gemini today to find the laundromat that I can travel to in the least time on public transit, but it said it couldn't do it and recommended that I drive instead. Do you think that if I'm using a laundromat, I can afford to drive a car?? Useless!

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