luck & miracles

Oh, come on, angel

Come on, come on, darlin'

I’m not just a me. I’m also a we.

"It's a long story."

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

☆ "I'm not the same person you left. You should probably remember that."

☆ "You don't get to miss me. You had me and you wasted it."

☆ "I've been keeping secrets for you since we were seventeen. I'm tired."

☆ "Don't call it love if you only show up when it's convenient."

☆ "I'm the most dangerous person in this room and nobody knows it yet."

☆ "You broke something in me that I'm still trying to name."

☆ "I'm not asking for much. Just stop lying to my face."

☆ "We could've been something incredible. You chose ordinary instead."

☆ "I saw the way you looked at her. Don't insult me by denying it."

☆ "Some people leave marks. You left scars. There's a difference."

☆ "I forgave you three times before I realized you were counting on it."

"☆ You're the only person I'd start a war for. That terrifies me."

☆ "I don't do second chances. You already know this."

☆ "They asked me if I loved you. I said something worse--I needed you."

☆ "Walk away if you want. But you'll think about this conversation for years."

☆ "I built walls and somehow you still ended up inside them."

☆ "You have a talent for making people feel invisible. Truly a gift."

☆ "I'm not broken. I'm just not what you expected."

☆ "It wasn't hate at first sight. It took at least a week."