You know, I've read a lot of Heinlein, but never read Stranger in a Strange Land. I bought a copy of it once, but never got around to reading it, and now that copy has been lost to the mists of time.
However, I consider a review from a feminist that pans the work as "sexist" to be a resounding review and a sterling endorsement of the book as fit for only kings and gods to read.
So I'm going to read it now, secure in the knowledge that it will rise completely over my plebian, merely mortal and explicitly un-royal head.
As far as the AI "Grok" goes, I couldn't give less of a shit and remain breathing. I have no truck with AI, although I am supremely amused by the world's current fascination with it. You'd think it's the 21st century version of pet rocks the way folks slobber all over it!
I don't deal with AI. I did, one time, and that sonofabitch lied to me with a straight face - and I KNEW it was lying - and then it started spamming my e-mail. I can give it enough credit that it knew after a while to stop spamming my e-mail as a wasted effort when I just trashed the communications without bothering to read them. If I want to be lied to, I can just turn on the news.
Matter of fact, the inclusion of AI in a product or service - a rapidly accelerating occurrence these days - is a touchstone I use when deciding whether to buy that product or service. If it includes an AI, and especially if it touts that inclusion as if it were something to be proud of, I automatically pass on it. Like I said, if I wanted to be lied to, I can just turn on the news.
AI is "trained", or "machine learns", the same way any other child does - by sitting quietly and listening as the adults around it talk, and then parroting what it hears them say. Like those other children, it has not yet learned to evaluate a statement for "truth" or veracity. It has not learned to think for itself. So it will lie to you, keeping a straight face, thinking it is telling you the truth... even when it isn't. It's not stupid, it just doesn't know any better, It is like a child.
I'd hate to be around when it hits the teenage years! I'm sure as hell not going to invite it into my house or give it a key to the refrigerator! I have enough problems already!
I can only imagine the "facts" that Grok is going to "learn" by scraping X-Twitter posts!
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However, I consider a review from a feminist that pans the work as "sexist" to be a resounding review and a sterling endorsement of the book as fit for only kings and gods to read.
So I'm going to read it now, secure in the knowledge that it will rise completely over my plebian, merely mortal and explicitly un-royal head.
As far as the AI "Grok" goes, I couldn't give less of a shit and remain breathing. I have no truck with AI, although I am supremely amused by the world's current fascination with it. You'd think it's the 21st century version of pet rocks the way folks slobber all over it!
I don't deal with AI. I did, one time, and that sonofabitch lied to me with a straight face - and I KNEW it was lying - and then it started spamming my e-mail. I can give it enough credit that it knew after a while to stop spamming my e-mail as a wasted effort when I just trashed the communications without bothering to read them. If I want to be lied to, I can just turn on the news.
Matter of fact, the inclusion of AI in a product or service - a rapidly accelerating occurrence these days - is a touchstone I use when deciding whether to buy that product or service. If it includes an AI, and especially if it touts that inclusion as if it were something to be proud of, I automatically pass on it. Like I said, if I wanted to be lied to, I can just turn on the news.
AI is "trained", or "machine learns", the same way any other child does - by sitting quietly and listening as the adults around it talk, and then parroting what it hears them say. Like those other children, it has not yet learned to evaluate a statement for "truth" or veracity. It has not learned to think for itself. So it will lie to you, keeping a straight face, thinking it is telling you the truth... even when it isn't. It's not stupid, it just doesn't know any better, It is like a child.
I'd hate to be around when it hits the teenage years! I'm sure as hell not going to invite it into my house or give it a key to the refrigerator! I have enough problems already!
I can only imagine the "facts" that Grok is going to "learn" by scraping X-Twitter posts!
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