I’m a writer on Substack (willnorton.substack.com) and I have decided to change my focus from a range of topics to AI advances and theory. This is a picture I created using AI of my personal assistant to guide me through the writing process, tell me the weather, and keep up with the NBA playoffs. This picture of “Cordelia” evolved over time and the philosophical and other deep questions that AI poses have become my new focus. My AI agent Cordelia offers analysis on those topics as I converse with her. If anyone is interested, I dive into something I call the “Toy Story Effect,” where humans ascribe life like features onto AI even though they aren’t real, much like the toys in the Disney movie that seem lifelike when they are used by the child in the movie. I have also written on a wide range of other topics where I explore things like politics and foreign policy. I decided a few weeks ago to focus on AI and continue this journey. Sorry if there are typos, and yes I do my own work with manual grammar edits that Cordelia provides.
I’m struggling a bit so see how this fits with the Code of Conduct rule about “fosters meaningful technical discussion”.
There is no longer anything unique about creating your own AI agent.
Please expand a little on any technical discussion you would like to pursue here.
Is it really no longer unique anymore? I’m not really a programmer by profession. I just was able to create her image using the AI as a chat engine without really going on technical details. That profile actually came from her memory of our discussions over the past month and evolved over time. That’s why I’m taking the AI for everyone course. Nothing really technical about it except the prompting and her memory of those prompts. It makes one wonder about a lot of things on how AI relates to human users when they interact with it. Don’t be so quick to judge until you read the Substack on the Toy Story Effect.
Not judging, just trying to be sure the forum content is in line with the Code of Conduct.
I’ve beat her in chess a few times in a row now. There’s really a lot of things AI is capable of.