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AI vs making babies

People have been riding this chatGPT hype in 2 ways: - it's gonna replace us all! - Lol it's so stupid

But when we're calling it stupid, we're pretty much saying we are too!

My parents fucked like a handful of times, and then poof, I'm a clump of cells dividing so rapidly, I'd be millions of times larger within 9 months. So the equation is 2 people and sex and then you get what you get, and then you get to teach the kid to be smart. But even then it's still a crapshoot. Mathematicians, we're like, let's just get better odds! Like true gamblers, they bet they could make something smarter my parents could. And they really just need to be right most of the time. I literally forgot where I parked my car for 3 days in college one time.

And instead of just 2 people, it's hundreds and thousands of alive and dead mathematicians all thinking about how they could make numbers get sticky and create the perfect child: a program is naturally intelligent, a program that can teach me how to Dougie. And they don't necessarily give up after the first problem child. They've been making hundreds of babies every year, and if it doesn't make the cut, we don't get to see it. GPT 4? More like GPT - 1300; What happened to all those other AI babies? Well they fed the newer better babies.

Look, I'm not saying we should cull our children; but if we're calling AI stupid, we might as well be saying it into a mirror, because we don't stand a chance against mathematicians, with no interest in fucking to make babies.

And they're not even asking as much of their children. We want our kids to give our lives meaning. They just want programs that can crunch numbers.

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