Questions were answered, feelings were had ⬆️
Mar 1, 2024
Related Recs
🤖
Apologies if this is strongly worded, but I'm pretty passionate about this. In addition to the functions public-facing AI tools have, we have to consider what the goal of AI is for corporations. This is an old cliché, but it's a useful one: follow the money. When we see some of the biggest tech companies in the world going all-in on this stuff, alarm bells should be going off. We're seeing a complete buy in by Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and even Meta suddenly pivoted to AI and seems to be quietly abandoning their beloved Metaverse. For decades, the goal of all these companies has always been infinite growth, taking a bigger share of the market, and making a bigger profit. When these are the main motivators, the workforce that carries out the labor supporting an industry is what inevitably suffers. People are told to do more with less, and cuts are made where C-suite executives see fit at the detriment of everyone down the hierarchy. Where AI is unique to other tangible products is that it is an efficiency beast in so many different ways. I have personally seen it affect my job as part of a larger cost-cutting measure. Microsoft's latest IT solutions are designed to automate as much as possible in favor of having actual people carry out typically client-facing tasks. Copy writers/editors inevitably won't be hired if people could instead type a prompt into ChatGPT to spit out a product description. Already, there are so many publications and Substacks that use AI image generators to create attention-grabbing header and link images - before this, an artist could have been paid to create something that might afford them food for the week. All this is to say that we will see a widening discrepancy between the ultra-wealthy and the working class, and the socio-economic structure we're in actively encourages consolidation of power. There are other moral implications with it that I could go on about, but they're kind of subjective. In relation to art, dedicating oneself to a craft often lends itself to fostering a community for support in one's journey, and if we collectively lean on AI more instead of other people, we risk isolating ourselves further in an environment that is already designed to do that. In my opinion, we shouldn't try to co-exist with something that is made to make our physical and emotional work obsolete.
Mar 24, 2024
A.I. as it exists currently will never be capable of truly mimicking the human mind, including the many emotions we feel on a day to day basis. Right now, A.I. is mostly just advanced algorithms that rip things from whatever its source material is or takes what it can from the wealth of all human knowledge that is the internet. Because of that, A.I. cannot grasp the human experience. It can pretend to, by pulling a post from any social media website and saying “well, when this situation happens, most people tend to feel X“ but that’s not real emotion, is it?
However, technology is constantly evolving. If at some point in the future, some tech bro can figure out how to perfectly and consistently create digital neural networks that mimic the human brain, then yes, that A.I. might be able to feel emotion, though it will never be “human emotion” as A.I.s will never be truly and completely human in the sense you and I are.
So I guess it depends on what your definition of “emotion” is. If you mean emotion as in “the full sensory and mental experience that emotions spawn in humans,” then the answer is no, an A.I. will never fully experience the complexities of human emotion. If you mean emotion as in “When X stimuli occurs, I react X way,” then yes, an A.I would be capable of that.
Overall, A.I. bad, humans good.
For some media to peruse, I’d recommend Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick (if you haven’t read it already) as well as anything related to Bladerunner (which is based on the aforementioned book).
This is a great question, thanks for asking it!
Apr 19, 2025
🤖
If bots ever get on this app theyll be forced to be agents of good. ai that just must say nice things and highlight the small joys of the world… are we remodeling the AI revolution one recommendation and friendly comment at a time??!
Jan 31, 2024
Top Recs from @theclack
The perfect lil snack for when you don’t want a big snack
Apr 3, 2024
Here it is, folks! Volume I of what could very well be a continuous project. Thank you so much to everyone that submitted - I smiled the entire time I was putting this together. It's best listened to with headphones ☺️
Liner Notes:
This collection of field recordings is a collaborative effort with users of PI.FYI, each of which recorded their own pieces. It features audio from all over the world and exhibits eclectic moments from London Underground commutes to cuckoo bird calls in Dhaka to the sounds of a century-old American diner.
Online communities like PI.FYI often represent a diverse set of people, places, and experiences, but together, the submissions form a living collage that highlights the commonalities of modern life - a unifying message for such a tumultuous time. The first track features all of the sounds played at once in an attempt to create an audio snapshot of an online community but in their offline lives.
The individual recordings are unedited except for minor gain and compression adjustments for consistency across the collection.
Mar 29, 2025
