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Author (The Postman, Earth, Existence, ailien Minds, The Transparent Society). Interested in technology, AI & our changing world. davidbrin.blogspot.com

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The one word cyber geniuses refuse to use... except for Vint Cerf

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By David Brin
| Substack
Vinton Cerf wrote about The Weirdness of Agents*, expressing his concern about out-of-control AI agents causing harm, much like the documented damage caused by runaway stock market trading robots.
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Why the salty-Earth folks hate us - and especially hate science. There's even a (slightly) valid reason!

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By David Brin
| blogspot.com
Apologies for not posting in a while. Many aspects of life got in the way. That and resonance effects from my big new book about Artificial Intelligence AIlien Minds... ...and preparing for performance of my play The Escape on August 28, at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim. But so much is happening in the news... and so little of it sheds much light. And so... ...I'll opine at the end of this posting about the insanely hypocritical Fauci Fables. But first...
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Claude's creepy-good appraisal of AIlien Minds.

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By David Brin
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I know, I know. I posted about this before. But for reasons, I re-read the appraisal of my book about Artificial Intelligence by a version of Claude, posed way back in the ancient, barely-recalled era of a couple of months ago. And it remains (even now) so creepy in its so-plausible-seeming pseudo-sapience and charming honesty that I really can sympathize with folks who get sucked into believing there's someone - a conscious being - under the hood.
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