A couple of days ago I posted a blog article on "The Zombification of America", on how so many hitherto respected US academic institutions
had mindlessly acceded to the demands of Musk and Trump to change
their curricula and fire members of staff whose teaching was not
deemed sufficiently politically correct (by the standards of Musk and
Trump).
You can see the blog post here:
<https://methodius.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-zombification-of-america.html>
A friend then fed the content of the blog post to Grok, the AI
component of Elon Musk's exTwitter, and asked for an opinion on it.
You can read this opinion in the comments to the blog post.
Grok's opinion, as far as I can tell, is certainly not politically
correct by the standards of Musk and Trump, and so it seems that Grok
is engaging in the crime of "thinking for itself".
How ironic it is that in response to an article criticising the
leaders of top academic institutions for behaving like bots or zombies
in unquestioningly and mindlessly following the dictates of Trump and
Musk, an actual bot should display more ability to "think for itself"
than the human actors.
And most ironic of all, that bot belongs to Musk himself.
A couple of days ago I posted a blog article on "The Zombification of America", on how so many hitherto respected US academic institutions
had mindlessly acceded to the demands of Musk and Trump to change
their curricula and fire members of staff whose teaching was not
deemed sufficiently politically correct (by the standards of Musk and
Trump).
You can see the blog post here:
<https://methodius.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-zombification-of-america.html>
A friend then fed the content of the blog post to Grok, the AI
component of Elon Musk's exTwitter, and asked for an opinion on it.
You can read this opinion in the comments to the blog post.
Grok's opinion, as far as I can tell, is certainly not politically
correct by the standards of Musk and Trump, and so it seems that Grok
is engaging in the crime of "thinking for itself".
How ironic it is that in response to an article criticising the
leaders of top academic institutions for behaving like bots or zombies
in unquestioningly and mindlessly following the dictates of Trump and
Musk, an actual bot should display more ability to "think for itself"
than the human actors.
And most ironic of all, that bot belongs to Musk himself.
Op 1/04/2025 om 6:46 schreef Steve Hayes:
A couple of days ago I posted a blog article on "The Zombification of
America", on how so many hitherto respected US academic institutions
had mindlessly acceded to the demands of Musk and Trump to change
their curricula and fire members of staff whose teaching was not
deemed sufficiently politically correct (by the standards of Musk and
Trump).
You can see the blog post here:
<https://methodius.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-zombification-of-america.html> >>
A friend then fed the content of the blog post to Grok, the AI
component of Elon Musk's exTwitter, and asked for an opinion on it.
You can read this opinion in the comments to the blog post.
Grok's opinion, as far as I can tell, is certainly not politically
correct by the standards of Musk and Trump, and so it seems that Grok
is engaging in the crime of "thinking for itself".
How ironic it is that in response to an article criticising the
leaders of top academic institutions for behaving like bots or zombies
in unquestioningly and mindlessly following the dictates of Trump and
Musk, an actual bot should display more ability to "think for itself"
than the human actors.
And most ironic of all, that bot belongs to Musk himself.
Mostly AI "sounds" to me in the same terms as "artificial respiration". Examples:
A person in critical condition was saved with artificial respiration.
In the same vein:
Trump and his ilk could highly benefit from some artificial intelligence.
Isn't AI just a modern version of 'Clippy the Paperclip' with
more 'bells and whistles'?
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 14:40:42 -0700, x <[email protected]> wrote:
Isn't AI just a modern version of 'Clippy the Paperclip' with
more 'bells and whistles'?
I prefer to think of it as a super search engine, able to combine the
results of several searches into a single report/document.
I don't believe that any of the LLMs now available are intelligent/sentient/conscious, and they therefore the impression they
give of "thinking for themselves" is an illusion, but some of the
people over in alt.philosophy will tell you that it's an illusion for
himan beings as well
The way LLMs (the so-called AI) do this is determined by the
programmers, but even so, Elon Musk's Grok seems able to disagree with
its owner.
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