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The Cost of AI-Powered Friendship
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The potential applications of AI-powered companions range from entertainment to business strategy, but the cost of powering such interactions with GPUs may limit its accessibility to only industries which see strategic gains from the data gathered.
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The uses of AI language agents can range anywhere from entertainment to business, with the ability to help with tasks such as brainstorming and strategy, although it can be expensive to utilize.
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The uses of AI language agents can range anywhere from entertainment to business, with the ability to help with tasks such as brainstorming and strategy, although it can be expensive to utilize. Self-play is an important aspect of AI language agents, with potential for real-time interactions with multiple people at once.
ChapterThe Cost of AI-Powered Friendship
Episode#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The speaker believes consciousness is the result of sparse distributed memory bit strings recalling different associative memories and eventually resulting in a conscious thought through the help of an empathetic friend with emotional intelligence and good memory.
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The speaker believes consciousness is the result of sparse distributed memory bit strings recalling different associative memories and eventually resulting in a conscious thought through the help of an empathetic friend with emotional intelligence and good memory. This process involves imagination and creativity, but ultimately leads to the use of a higher level language in understanding consciousness.