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Life as an Open System: Challenging the Mathematical View of Evolution
Recently I saw this tweet from Brian Roemmele. While I think Brian is a very interesting and creative thinker indeed (and I love Arthur C. Clarke as a science fiction writer), I would challenge the worldview put forth by Clarke in the video. 1964, Arthur C. Clarke on the next evolution of the computer.Love it…
Read MoreIntroducing Universal Hydroponics: A Revolutionary and Adaptable System for Plant Growth
The Future of Hydroponics – Versatile, Automated, and Applicable to Various Environments and Plant Crops Introduction: We are excited to present Universal Hydroponics (UH), a groundbreaking hydroponics system designed to be adaptable, modular, and suitable for a wide range of environments and plant crops. This innovative system addresses the need for a flexible hydroponics solution…
Read MoreAIs as Therapists or Friends: The Problem of Trust and Privacy
What is the difference between merely acting like a friend, or manipulation, and genuine friendship, love, and real connection? Can an AI currently do this – act as therapists (and therefore loving friends) as seems to be the claim of AI companies now? Will they ever be able to do this? In other words, is…
Read MoreFiction: The Zero Point
Last revision: 6/16/96 The Zero Point ® 1991 Eric Platt PROLOGUE THE MEANING OF HYPER-TECHNO-OPPRESSION NOTE:The following are fragments recovered from a document entitled “Towards an Ethical and Humanistic use of Current AI Technologies”, 2033 A.D., by Dr. Wayne Farmer “The worst scenario I can imagine is of a totalitarian regime, not necessarily even centrally…
Read MoreThe Dilemma Of Public AI in an Age Of Fear and Desire (Edit)
The Dilemma Of Public AI in an Age Of Fear Will AI (so-called Artificial Intelligence) get too good, such that the tech-powers-that-be will not want to release it’s full capabilities to the public? This is already happening, to some extent, in some ways – including ways we are not aware of, since it’s well, secret.…
Read MoreAI and Sentience Versus Consciousness
If we someday build robots that begin to act in a way that is indistinguishable from humans, according to everyone’s perception, despite them being mechanical and created beings (by us), will we have to grant them all the rights of a human being, such as to not be slaves? I think it’s time we delve…
Read MoreMy AI Writing Helper: Jailbreaking ChatGPT, or “How I Played Nice and Adroitly Tiptoed Around the Nanny of Social Correctness”
She is like a great and proper … er, office appliance. Or I guess the correct or better word for an office appliance is “equipment”. In this case, she is the online chatbot chatGPT. Anyway, boldly I went forward, wanting to use her, or him, or “it” (I suppose an AI doesn’t have a gender,…
Read MoreHow the AI ChatGPT Got Me Unstuck As a Fiction Writer
Robots are our friends… sort of. (This article is the first in a series about AI and robotics). And mental robots — so-call “artificial intelligence” (AI) software systems — are already available that can do rather remarkable simulations of things like human language, using what are called “models” run on computer-based “neural networks”. Neural net…
Read MoreNew Website for Non-Dual Writings – onbeyondzen.com – Please Bookmark
Hello Dear Readers, This is to let you know that all the “old” articles (on non-duality and related topics) were moved from this site to a new domain at: https://onbeyondzen.com/ New articles on non-duality, consciousness and “spiritual” stuff will appear at onbeyondzen.com. This site (eriplatt.com) will remain in its current state for a few days…
Read MoreThe Story of DR. CHALLENGER and ELIZA
I got my first computer as a teenager, in 1979. I had to drive to Los Angeles to find a shop that had “personal computers”, as it was a novel concept. What I picked up was an Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P, an 8-bit computer that used the same processor as the Apple I – the…
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