frankenstein
Me: "#Frankenstein ... wow, what a monster."
Them: "That's a popular misconception, Frankenstein was the scientist."
Me: "That's a popular misconception. Frankenstein was the classic #techbro who didn't give a damn about the consequences of what he did and ignored all common ethical considerations. By all reasonable modern-day measures he was indeed the damn monster."
Over 2,000 years ago Ovid wrote about a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he carved, imputing the ability to love to an arrangement of rock. Today we impute the ability to think to an arrangement of silicon. Stories of breathing life into non-life have been with us for a very long time, yet somehow we're stuck in the same place.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AGI #Pygmalion #Golem #Pinocchio #Talos #Frankenstein
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AGI #Pygmalion #Golem #Pinocchio #Talos #Frankenstein
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Amazon is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain—Futurism.com reporting on NYT story
Whose brain? See Frankenstein, 1931, and Young Frankenstein, 1974.
@books @bookstodon @religion #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #AI #Amazon #Frankenstein #amwritingsf #sciencefiction #secretscifinetwork #AbbyNormal
https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-anthropic-ai-data-center