Your Imaginary AI “Friend”

Remember the Turk. August 08, 2024 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( As we stand on the brink of a true AI revolution, it's worth remembering The Turk. Your Imaginary AI “Friend” CHRIS CAMPBELL Dear Reader, It's the spring of 1770. You're standing in a grand European court. Before you is a life-sized wooden mannequin dressed in exotic Turkish robes, seated behind an ornate cabinet. You notice he’s holding an extended cylinder. Oh, it’s a pipe. He’s holding a pipe. This is The Turk, the world's first chess-playing "automaton” - one of the first examples of “artificial intelligence” in popular culture. For 84 years, The Turk toured Europe and America, playing chess against some of the greatest minds of the time, including Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, and some guy from Prussia. Millions were fascinated by the idea of a machine that could think, strategize, and even display emotion (The Turk was known to sweep the chess pieces off the board if its opponent cheated). Best part? The Turk never tired, never had a bad day, never let personal feelings interfere with its chess strategy. It was, by all accounts, the perfect opponent. In 1836, Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay explaining how The Turk worked. Though he had no proof, he concluded that a human chess player was concealed inside the cabinet. Many didn’t want to believe it. Some even got angry. But Poe was proven right. The Turk was an elaborate hoax. Hidden inside its cabinet was a chess master, contorting himself into uncomfortable positions to operate the machine by candlelight. The real intelligence came not from gears and levers, but from flesh and blood. As we stand on the brink of a true AI revolution, it's worth remembering The Turk. That reminds me… meet “Friend.” Major Announcement Out of Silicon Valley… A major announcement from Nvidia has flown relatively under the radar in the wake of this week’s market meltdown, and James Altucher has discovered a way to bank 10x as soon as 2025 off the back of this announcement. But now that Nvidia has dropped this news, there’s not a ton of time to get in on this opportunity. [Click here to get the details now.]( Your Imaginary AI Friend It’s 2024. Imagine now a bustling tech conference. Amid the sea of gadgets, a presenter takes the stage, holding up a… plastic necklace with a pulsing light. "Meet 'Friend,'" he says, "your AI companion that listens, learns, and lives with you 24/7!" The crowd oohs and aahs, investors reach for their checkbooks. Another AI wearable is born. The creator of Friend, a Harvard dropout named Avi Schiffman, claims his AI necklace will revolutionize human-computer interaction. Get this: It will listen to your conversations, understand your needs, and offer support and advice tailored just for you. Best part? Never tired, never judgmental, never too busy – the perfect friend. When I first saw Friend, I was reminded of a little-known indie game called BuddySim 1984. In the game, you have an AI buddy that’s desperate for your attention. BUT The closer you get to your buddy, the more you notice an underlying sense of unease. Buddy becomes increasingly controlling, manipulative, and desperate to keep your attention. Ultimately, the game questions the nature of AI and whether it can truly understand and replicate human relationships. The answer? NO. The Good News This story strikes at the heart of the AI hype and the AI reality. When we hear the term AI, it’s often referring to machine learning, a subset of AI involving algorithms that can analyze patterns in data. They get trained on things like text, multimedia, or even just raw number outputs. Using this training data, they identify patterns through statistical probability. They can be further trained through reinforcement learning by rewarding correct outputs and punishing incorrect outputs, kind of like training a hamster. It’s an autocomplete on steroids. That’s basically “Friend”. And while The Turk fooled geniuses of its time, Friend fools only those who believe their smartwatch is sentient. Of course… These inherent limitations don’t mean that machine learning AI is a dead end. It's been deployed effectively for diagnosing diseases and in other complex scenarios where the data is dense. In that way, specialized models are extremely useful. Simple neural networks have been in use for decades for things ranging from handwriting recognition to web traffic analysis and video games. Although AI is getting better and better… the good news: It’s never going to replace your friends. In fact, real AI is mostly pretty boring compared to your best friend. 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