If they want to, sure!

Because Companies That Care About Those Things,
Will Be Beaten To The Ground By Those Who Don't

You want to be rich? Forget morals, forget ethics, you want to look at the market, the trend, and the paying customers.

It's people like Thomas Edison that shaped the market, not geniuses like Nicola Tesla.

You want to become the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world? Then starve the people. Nestle knows what they were doing.

In any case... It's kind of the world we live in. The rich don't pay taxes, the poor will always suffer, everyone suffers, big sad, have a cup of coffee, and let's back to work.

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As for why people outside these companies don't make treaties for things like this? I suppose it's because AI's doesn't directly harm people. Even if 90% of artists loses their job, people would just look at them, and think 'yeah, it's the invention of email all over again'.

People's job gets replaced by automation every time that everyone doesn't give a damn until it threatens their career. That's just how it is now. The same way that people are actively supporting driverless cars, disregarding the bus drivers and truck drivers.

Programmers? Quite possibly, yes
Software Developers? No, absolutely not

And most programmers worth their salt would be able to take up a job or at least start becoming software developers themselves.

In the far future, maybe Codex would replace all programmers, but all the programmers that were being replaced took up jobs as Software Developer, Game Developer, Project Manager, and all other high-lever IT jobs.

Projects that were once impossible for one person becomes possible. Regular programmers suddenly has more chance of becoming a software developer or even build their own startups.

Not to mention that positions such as Cloud Engineers are always necessary to maintain any system under the sun.

So yeah, the job programmers might be threatened, but the people in it will prosper.

(Unless, of course, you somehow build a career of being a Programmer without ever learning about the fundamentals of Software Development, in which case... Tough luck baby, natural selection!)

glances at character.ai community

I think I know the answer to that question already...

Personally, yeah, of course!

Something real close to that exists now...

Check out character.ai, pick an intelligent character, and discuss anything you want with it.

Sometimes it will make stuff up, sometimes it will recommend you existing piece of literature/media, sometimes it will blow your mind by the quality of their advices.

Sometimes it will pull up an extremely recent news that you gotta wonder if they're googling stuff real time while you're talking with it.

It can also discuss the content of books and all sorts of media.

It's quite interesting, really...

Why bother telling everyone? Keep the information to yourself and rise up quietly up the ranks. Why force unwilling people into your safety boat when you can have all the space for yourself?

I stopped bothering warning people about AI after my artists friend scoffed at DALL-E 2, saying that it can never make decent Anime faces.

Now I'm laughing hysterically in NovelAI

At any rate, just smile and wave, and prepare to say the words:

I told you so...

I'm not an expert or even that knowledgeable about this so... Can I ask you something?

What is the difference between how an AI would 'imagine something' and how a human would 'imagine something'

I would assume that both look up the relations of data they've gathered and usually they would come up with a picture in their head that is pleasant to imagine.

So... to what degree are humans and AIs similar in imagining stuff? And what are the major difference between how the two imagines stuff?

(Sorry for asking too much, I'm just curious about this since I don't know much about how AI works)

It's not the images that impressed me, I know how Text to Image works

It's the implication that I never asked for these specific images that truly impressed me. I never asked for a picture of forest or cottage or mountain. I asked them questions that only a thinking and feeling agent could answer.

Sure you can say that it was merely a randomly generated response.

But think about this...

Say I made this exact same test on an actual human. I ask person to imagine something and put it down as a prompt. They would imagine something, they would see something in their head, then describe it as prompt. The final result will look exactly like this one. (an AI Generated Picture)

Does the chatbot imagined something in their head before describing it to me as a prompt?

No, probably not, we're not quite there yet...

But it's still interesting to think about.