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Weird experience with AI recently. I did a Google search on how to process acorns and AI told me to put them in a cloth bag and let them sit in the river, and if I didn't have a river, to put them in my toilet tank... this is what happens when machines take over.

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Ha, wow, that is weird/funny.

Luckily, we're not at the true takeover stage yet haha. Not yet AGI let alone ASI but, of course, I do worry about what happens on arrival -- things like "The Paperclip Problem".

For now, my understanding is that any civilian use AI tech, what we're calling "AI" -- LLMs, chatbots, etc -- is exclusively user-oriented and so they can't do anything independently as of yet.

These AI products are really useful tools once users learn the "language" to become a sort of "AI whisperer". There are many concerns and downsides that definitely dominate the discussion surrounding them.

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