I was talking with some family members today about Elon Musk, Mars, Tesla, Space X, Boring Company, Starlink, Paypal, Solar City, etc. I mentioned the recent Media Matters lawsuit and the interview where Elon basically told people that want to blackmail him with advertising money to "Go Fuck Yourselves".
We are in a war. A war unlike any fought before.
In the past a million people might die storming a beach.
In the present tens of millions might die being the guinea pigs in a vaccine test pushed with any opposition being censored.
The later deaths that are ten times that of storming the beach might occur with almost no sound of outrage or concern at all.
I figure while X isn't perfect it is going the right direction. I decided to put my money where my mouth is and sign up for the premium subscription. I briefly considered purchasing the annual subscription which comes at a discount but then like I said "put your money where you mouth is"... I didn't need the discount so I went for monthly.
One of the features that comes with it is access to Grok which is the AI from X. I like that they used that word as it comes from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" and it is an appropriate title. To Grok something had a deeper meaning than simply understanding or knowing. I need to read that book again. I've read it several times but it has been a decade or two since the last time. I also thought it was interesting that Water Beds appeared in that book before they existed in reality. It was also a book that dealt with Mars. That is quite appropriate for a project tied to Elon Musk.
I gave Grok a try. Wow. I actually had an interesting conversation with it and I intentionally took it on some tangents. It gave interesting responses. In fact, it does such a good job that this post could have been written by it. Interestingly enough if I gave it the proper prompts it likely would have written a better post than I did.
I talked to it about the first jobs to be lost to AI.
I then talked about how 2D artists are threatened by it.
I then talked about the potential of hybrid music made with a combination of human and AI composers.
Then I wrapped it up talking about hybrid Progressive Metal composed by humans an AI. It gave me a length and interesting response with the final bit being some suggestion of some recent Progressive Metal to listen to.
I haven't messed with AI much. It is already changing the world rapidly and Pandora's box is opened. There is no putting the genie back into the bottle. Where it will go is hard to say. I think the future me is less about where AI will go, it is more about what role will there be for humans.