Using a simple text prompt I can immediately generate any kind of image I want. It’s not that much different than a wizard casting a spell.
Yeah, especially if Q* and other AIs can be based in mathematics so it can invent new things that actually work.
Even a simple LLM is a window into the Jungian collective unconscious at time of training, but nobody seems to talk about the philosophical implications of what we have right now.
The Age of perfect robo wives.
For normal humans yes, for those that merge not so much.
There’s websites showing how you can build technomagick circuits with batteries and leds and sigils / potentiometers. I don’t know how it works or if it does but there’s a lot on it. Lucifer Faust shamanic technomagick is a book that teaches you actual magick devices you can make I believe.
Most people conceptualize “Artificial Intelligence” as “Machine that Acts Like A Person”. In that sense, chatbots and mechanical turks absolutely are artificial intelligence, at least as far as we’re concerned. They fit the profile, or at least they’re close enough.
My aunt loves don’t jigsaw puzzles. She brings one to Thanksgiving every year. This year, the Santa-themed art on the puzzle was… bizarre. Images melted into one another. Objects were in odd places - the Christmas tree was in the fireplace, there was a weird chandelier just floating on the ceiling of a log cabin, the feet of one of the toy wooden deer were melted wax - all over the puzzle.
It was the picture of shoddy digitally generated imagery. But it sold just as easily as any of that other kitsch Christian disposables.