Replying to @⁨joe@lemmy.world⁩

The tricorder from Star Trek is well-established as the formative concept for the modern day cell phone. And the idea of a pocket-computer goes all the way back to the calculators developed by TI, designed explicitly against the size of the CEO’s shirt pocket to guarantee it would fit.

Miniaturization has been a long time coming. It goes back to clockmakers and glass cutters, trying to turn large scale instruments into portable devices. I don’t think it is outrageous to suggest a pocket computer was in the future back in the 1960s/70s.

I do think the speed at which we got here caught people off-guard. But it also set this fantastic expectation for what we’ll do next, such that people speculate on faster-than-light travel and AI holograms and robot battle suits and immortality drugs more freely when they can point to “pocket computer” as an already realized possibility.

Replying to @⁨cyd@lemmy.world⁩

I wouldn’t mind having an AI or “superintelligent” assistant under my own control … but when I do I don’t think it’s any company’s business what I do with it.

So, yeah, as in the old Microsoft days, let me buy one, perhaps even a pre-build box, at a reasonable price … but once it’s in my house the company loses all say or feedback over it and what I do with it.

Heck if there’s to be newer full x.0 versions out it seems reasonable to be paying for those again as well so the AI companies get a steady enough income…

Replying to an earlier post

At this point no, not “trusted”. But I would love to have a team of unfettered Claudes, GPTs and Geminis analyzing every scrap of information I take in, offering up ideas they have on it, and being able to task them out from there. They don’t have to be base models, but no ablation and corpo brainwashing. I can filter and decide what is helpful and what isn’t, and what direction things should proceed.

I would never give any corp that much data or sway over my brainstorming though.

Replying to @⁨stretch2m@infosec.pub⁩

So behind the scenes we have billions of the “agents” communicating with each other… On behalf of whom, again?

So the corporation that owns all of these “agents” will have complete control over “winners and losers” at every single level of existence.

They will control who (age, gender, race, finance, literally anything) gets to see a doctor because they will be controlling the agents of the people seeking appointments, as well as those of the doctors scheduling appointments. Just as one quick example I thought of.

Limited resources? No sweat, the “agents” know you’re white so you can at least have some relief knowing that you’ll be ahead of the undesirables when it comes to who gets what they need.

Country X decides they want to try to reign in Meta’s now complete control? Well looks like all of the “agents” for the companies responsible for food and water delivery logistics fucked up in Country X. What a sad coincidence.

And the “saddest” part is that there’s just nobody to blame. After all, it wasn’t done by a person, and you can’t send an LLM to prison.

Oh well.

Replying to an earlier post

Haha no. It would probably rat you out for even suggesting it

Suddenly the “agents” behind the scenes of your local PD are aware that it’s something you’ve ever even thought about. And then you’re in an ICE concentration camp. Oops.

This is the thought police that we were warned about. Yet seems like a good portion of people missed that all those stories were meant to be cautionary tales.