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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",garamond,Times,serif">And it’s not just happening in chess. Humans are starting to take their cues from machines in many other creative endeavors: Grammarly assists writers, DALL-E 2 makes art, AI writes </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/technology/codex-artificial-intelligence-coding.html" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",garamond,Times,serif">code</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",garamond,Times,serif">, programs design </span><a href="https://wired.me/culture/design/your-ai-generated-clothes-are-trending/" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",garamond,Times,serif">clothing</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",garamond,Times,serif">. Perhaps one day we won’t compare natural-language programs with </span><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/language-ai-don%E2%80%99t-know-no-grammar" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",garamond,Times,serif">Didion</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",garamond,Times,serif"> or music-composing software with </span><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/12/14/155416/deep-learning-machine-listens-to-bach-then-writes-its-own-music-in-the-same-style/" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",garamond,Times,serif">Bach</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AGaramondPro,"Adobe Garamond Pro",garamond,Times,serif">, but the other way around."<br><br>Exactly. I started to play with DALLE-2 and Midjourney and I can see how the lazy way to use this tech can produce interesting to look at, silly or whimsical results but if you want to create something really amazing and make new forms of art it requires a lot of work and time (even if the process of creating is streamlined for sure). It can be done with AI art and this opens incredible possibilities. This should be a group where we envision these things and embrace them. I don't care if a person won a chess competition using AI assistance (in particular if they did it in a way that implied some kind of "merger" with the AI). Good for him. As I said the challenge is how can I use AI to do the best work possible in this field. Why not art competitions where you use AI as much as you want? Let's see how the results compare. Same with chess or anything else. <br>I don't see the problems at all if not in the imagination of people that think this is a problem. <br>Giovanni </span></font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 4:58 PM Giovanni Santostasi <<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The solution is not obvious? <br>It is time to allow in competition human-AI collaboration. The challenge would be then how this can be optimized where one player is better than another in using AI together with his own skills and understanding of how the AI works. I'm pretty sure that a human-AI combination can be better than only humans or AI. This is the future anyway, in particular when neuro links would be common and widespread in a few years. <br>It is the same thing I feel any time use of drugs in sports is called cheating. I agree that very dangerous drugs should be forbidden but not because they help performance but because they are dangerous (I'm sure there is a dividing line somewhere there). <br>This is a transition time where we still hope to separate what is just human and what is "artificial" but that separation is artificial anyway. Soon that transition will be over and we will be the AI anyway. Then what? No competitions or sports? I don't think so. <br>We are already using AI to train chess players so why not let them use it during a competition? <br>Or any human can go to these competitions use the AI in a very noncreative way and have zero input in the process (so it would make competing meaningless) or some humans will figure out how to work together with an AI and be better than anybody else and that would prove a point and be very interesting. <br>I don't understand this idea of making the competition more fun and fair by limiting the available possibilities a modern human has at his disposal. Would a match of soccer be more fun if the players had only one leg? There are Paralympics and they have a place but weirdly enough in these Olympics prosthetics can make you run faster than humans with normal limbs for example. <br>So let people do whatever they want within the only limits that make sense that is they should not damage themselves or others. <br>Giovanni <br><br><br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 4:27 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 20 October, 2022 4:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Computers are changing humans<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 3:22 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Interface hipsters, any suggestions? NO dammit I don’t intend to try it,<br>but I want to suggest it on an internet chess forum.<u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I am surprised you make no mention of female anatomy, how a player with that would have ready access to something motorized that fits down there, and how some such players - if found with it - could try to pass off wearing it during a match as a mere focusing aid, pretending it had no ability to communicate (which capability is already available in certain models) or to host a computer.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Or just use a hearing aid.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Adrian I thought of that, as did pretty much every chess player, but declined to comment for lack of knowledge on how such a device located way you implied could have a workable I/O system. One can fairly easily imagine the O, but not the I part of that notion. Ladies here might not wish to comment online perhaps. With regard to a hearing aid, same situation: I see how it could communicate in the device-to-human direction, but I don’t see how the human to device channel would work.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The chess online community of course is in mourning for what appears to be the long-anticipated end of the road for tournament chess forever. I am among those who conjectured on this 20 yrs ago. Chess forum participants are gleefully enjoying use of the terms “chess tournament” and “vibrating anal beads” in the same sentence of course, something none of us expected we would ever see.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Adrian, if a technologically sophisticated swindler wanted to create a perfectly covert small computing device in which the I/O requirement is very small, how would it be done? Anyone?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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