Redditor asks "Are we entering an age of sorcery?" Comments say "yes."
Redditor asks "Are we entering an age of sorcery?" Comments say "yes."
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” -Arthur C. Clarke As AI/AGI develops further to possibly create stuff...
Using a simple text prompt I can immediately generate any kind of image I want. It’s not that much different than a wizard casting a spell.
Yeah, especially if Q* and other AIs can be based in mathematics so it can invent new things that actually work.
Even a simple LLM is a window into the Jungian collective unconscious at time of training, but nobody seems to talk about the philosophical implications of what we have right now.
The Age of perfect robo wives.
For normal humans yes, for those that merge not so much.
There’s websites showing how you can build technomagick circuits with batteries and leds and sigils / potentiometers. I don’t know how it works or if it does but there’s a lot on it. Lucifer Faust shamanic technomagick is a book that teaches you actual magick devices you can make I believe.
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Isn't this just basically like saying engineers in the middle ages were wizards? I certainly couldn't craft a trebuchet to save my life, yet there are 'people who are designing a machine that can transport rocks from one place to another'; it's not much different than a wizard casting a teleportation spell!
At what point does wishful thinking just become silliness? I couldn't tell you how a thermostat works, but it doesn't mean it's a technomagick circuit that uses sigils and harnesses the power of mini-lightning to magically reduce or increase a room's temperature.
If this is the criteria, we've been at this stage of technology being indistinguishable from magic ever since man figured out how to make fire. It's not like they understood combustion. Heck, man discovering fire would've been the true age of technology being indistinguishable from magic as no one on the planet could give a scientific answer for why it works; today however you can talk to an AI engineer who knows exactly why AI works the way it does.
This is what happens when a society emphasises hyper-individualism and rampant anti-intellectualism. People adopt an attitude of "I don't know how to do that, so it must be some special secret/magic."
So when these guys see these AIs making an image of a generic anime girl that vaguely resembles the character they asked for, they are amazed and conclude that it must be real magic and not just a parlor trick. And like any good con artist, the people peddling this stuff really hype up the mysticism around it, trying to make it seem like some impossibly special thing and not just another algorithm. We need a technology Houdini to debunk all this nonsense.
conclude that it must be real magic and not just a parlor trick. And like any good con artist, the people peddling this stuff really hype up the mysticism around it, trying to make it seem like some impossibly special thing
Like I said elsewhere it's like the magicians of old Egypt again
We have magic stones inscribed with precise runes powered by captured lightning displaying this information across the world.
I can agree with you and still be in awe. It makes my user experience more awesome.
It gets more interesting when you avoid obfuscatory words like "magic", "rune", and "lightning" (in this context)
rune and lighting are fanciful but accurate. It is a marking on stone and metal with significant meaning and it is powered by lightingsubstance
it's all natural and rational but describing it poetically is cool and fine
they are definitely past the point of extreme silliness