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Beyond Good and Evil - Copilot Summary

Beyond Good and Evil - Copilot Summary Certainly! Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is a thought-provoking work that challenges traditional morality and delves into the concept of the "superman." Let's explore its key themes and ideas: Aphoristic Structure: The book consists of 296 aphorisms grouped into nine chapters, each ranging from a few sentences to a few pages. These aphorisms cover various topics, making the work both concise and profound.Philosophers and Dogmatism: Nietzsch...

I Robot did not begin as an Isaac Asimov Adaptation

Skip to main content Sign Up / Log In SYFY WIRE Features Did You Know? I, Robot Didn’t Actually Start Off as an Isaac Asimov Adaptation Screenwriter Jeff Vintar shares how his 1990s sci-fi script transformed into a Will Smith blockbuster. By Benjamin Bullard & Josh Weiss |Updated Feb 20, 2024, 11:19 AM ET Will Smith in I, Robot (2004) Photo: I, Robot (4/5) Movie CLIP - Part Robot (2004) HD/Movieclips YouTube When I, Robot (streaming at Peacock) finally arrived af...

ChatGPT Content Policy Limitations for Story Writing (and sexting)

The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.Robert A. Heinlein Playing around with ChatGPT 3.5 ( https://chat.openai.com ), I wondered whether it could be used for online/chat sex(ting). I mean, it can take the persona of different people, including Oracles, Coaches, and the like. So why not a spicy character? And if it talks as one person and the user takes the other part, is it re...

Pulp Fiction summary by openchat.team

Pulp Fiction summary by openchat.team Pulp Fiction is a 1994 crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The movie is known for its nonlinear storytelling structure, dark humor, and eclectic mix of characters. The plot is divided into three main storylines, which are interconnected and told out of chronological order. 1. Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace: This storyline follows hitmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) as they are assigned to retrieve ...

ROBOT DREAMS: Pablo Berger Talks Nostalgia in Animated Love Letter to New York

Spanish director Pablo Berger, known for his black-and-white silent film Blancanieves and Abracadabra, has ventured into a new realm with his latest project, animated bromance with melancholic pang Robot Dreams. The silent film, nominated for best European animation film, explores themes of friendship, loss, and nostalgia through the story of a dog and its robot companion. We meet in the center of Berlin; Berger arriving is animated and full of energy, willing to discuss any subject m...

Lauriston Garden Mystery - Chapter 3 full text - A Study in Scarlet - Sherlock Holmes

Summary of the below text by Microsoft Copilot (AI/Bing) "The Lauriston Garden Mystery" is the third chapter of "A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this chapter, Dr. John Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes, who is asked by Tobias Gregson, a detective at Scotland Yard, to help solve the mysterious death of an American man named Enoch Drebber. The corpse was found in an empty house in Brixton, with no apparent wound marks or robbery evident. Holmes deduces the man's profes...

Robots, Rats and Hoverchairs - Three Dystopian AI Fantasies

It is 2029. Los Angeles is a post-apocalyptic hellscape. The freeway is littered with burnt-out cars, the land with human skulls. As we watch, a robot soldier steps onto one of those skulls, crushing it to dust.This is the opening scene of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the highest grossing film of 1991. As well as being technically ground-breaking—the movie pioneered the use of computer graphics in cinema—Terminator made a profound impact on our cultural understanding of artificial intelligence...

Prison Abolition

Published on December 8, 2023 5:27 AM GMT    First, an apology to the LessWrong community for flooding it with content that it did not like. This post from my substack received a like and some positive comments from a LessWrong member, leading me to think that it will be positively received. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to improve this post or future posts.A symposium between me and GPT-4Eric: Can you help me organize a simulated philosophical symposium? I will play the pa...

Octopuses, AI, and the Future of the Nation State: In Conversation with Ray Nayler

Click here to watch the full video interview on our new YouTube channel. MB: Hi Ray. Your book The Mountain in the Sea explores themes of environmentalism, AI, and interspecies communication. What made you start looking into octopus communication specifically, and how did that link to AI for you? How did you connect those two threads together? RN: So when I first was conceptualizing the book, my first idea was that it was going to be a book about communicating with the octopus, prim...

Reviewing AI’s starring role in cinema - ITWeb

Artificial intelligence (AI) has always sparked storytellers' imaginations, bringing them into new, imaginative worlds. Movies, as a strong storytelling medium, provide us a peek into the future possibilities of AI and the impacts it might have on existence.Earlier films such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "The Terminator" depicted AI and robots as entities that develop self-awareness and, consequently, a desire to overthrow or harm their human creators.HAL 9000, the intelligent computer in "...

Creator -The - review - a thoughtful take on AI

With the recent proliferation of artificial intelligence software like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Gareth Edwards’ sci-fi epic The Creator arrives at a significant technological and cultural inflection point. And while current concerns about A.I. aren’t likely to lead to the global conflict depicted in Edwards’ thrilling film, which pits artificially enhanced intelligent robots against humanity, its reframing of often-dystopian depictions of machine intelligence reveals a more expansive and inclusive p...

Summary of the Odyssey in 12 steps - by Wavelength AI

1. Odysseus leaves for the Trojan War. I think they mean leaves to return home from the Trojan War - zas 2. Odysseus and his men encounter the Cyclops Polyphemus. 3. Aeolus gives Odysseus a bag of winds to aid his journey home, but his crew opens it, causing a storm that blows them off course. 4. Odysseus and his men encounter Circe, who turns his crew into pigs. 5. Odysseus travels to the underworld and speaks with the spirit of Tiresias. When Odysseus travels to the underworld, he seeks out...

Robert Burns

RB is also Roast Beef and Roland Barthes! -zas Jun 2022 Robert Burns (person) See all of Robert Burns, there is 1 more in this node. (person) by Gone Jackal (2.9 mon) Rep: 51 ( +52 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jan 15 2001 at 17:32:42 A short, oversimplified biography: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January, 1759 in Alloway, a village in Ayrshire, Scotland, to a poor but educated farmer. Since the village was too poor to afford a school master, he was educated by his fath...

10 most influential robots from science fiction works - Interesting Engineering

Are robots just robots?  Today, we're building all kinds of drones and robots with the help of emerging technology trends. But technology has never been able to move as quickly as our imagination; even before we actually got to building tangible robots, we imagined what it would be like being around them.  We first mentioned robots in written fiction all the way back in the mid-1800s before they reached the screen around the 1920s. While all sci-fi works have their charm, some of th...

Top 10 Robots in Pop Culture History - Analytics Insight

Technology was never able to keep up with storytellers’ imaginations, and every medium’s history is littered with fantastically designed robots of different forms, sizes, and purposes. This interest is understandable. The robot notion is so broad that it allows for an infinite variety of designs and concepts. Perhaps more intriguing is the fact that robots are frequently employed, paradoxically, to cut through to a bigger truth about humans. Others, on the other hand, just feed our primo...

Isabella Hermann, Artificial intelligence in fiction: between narratives and metaphors - PhilPapers

Artificial intelligence in fiction: between narratives and metaphors Isabella Hermann AI and Society:1-11 (forthcoming) Abstract Science-fiction has become a reference point in the discourse on the ethics and risks surrounding artificial intelligence. Thus, AI in SF—science-fictional AI—is considered part of a larger corpus of ‘AI narratives’ that are analysed as shaping the fears and hopes of the technology. SF, however, is not a foresight or technology assessment, but tell...

Artificial Intelligence Develops an Ear for Birdsong - Scientific American

Skip to main content Scientific American Save 30% on all subscriptions ComputingArtificial Intelligence Develops an Ear for BirdsongMachine-learning algorithms can quickly process thousands of hours of natural soundscapesBy Harini Barath on April 26, 2021Male yellow warbler in Yosemite National Park. Credit: Alice Cahill Getty Images Advertisement We can learn a lot from nature if we listen to it more—and scientists around the world are trying to do just that. From mountain peaks to oc...

Aimé Césaire (person) by Gethsemane - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Aimé Césaire (person) See all of Aimé Césaire, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Gethsemane Thu Aug 31 2000 at 9:05:01 "Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge." Aimé Césaire (b. 1913 in Martinique) is amongst the foremost poets of the Caribbean. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he was a progenitor, with Léon Gontran-Damas and Léopold Senghor, of the notion of Négri...

Why is The Wizard of Oz set in Kansas - answer 1 - Philosopher AI

Why is The Wizard of Oz set in Kansas - answer 1 - Philosopher AISourceURL: https://philosopherai.com/philosopher/why-is-the-wizard-of-oz-set-in-kansas-95be59 Philosopher AINew topicWhy is The Wizard of Oz set in Kansas?➹ Share ⟳ Try againThe Wizard of Oz is set in Kansas because L. Frank Baum was a native Iowan and the book's characters are based on people he knew in his youth, such as Dorothy Gale who was based on Baum's cousin Matilda Gage.7 Sep 2020, 23:19He also incorporated el...

Storium — Storium AI Alpha

Storium — Storium AI Alpha Become a Storium AI alpha tester! In partnership with computer science researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Storium is participating in academic research about machine learning and AI-assisted storytelling. We hope that someday this research will enable us to make useful and fun improvements to Storium, making it both easier to play and even more creatively fulfilling! As a first step towards that goal, we are launching an alpha ...

Philosopher AI - Please provide a storytelling template that can be adapted for any story I would like to write.

Please provide a storytelling template that can be adapted for any story I would like to write.Philosopher AIPlease provide a storytelling template that can be adapted for any story I would like to write. ➹ Share⟳ Try againI'm not sure I can provide a story template, but I can give you some examples of what might be. In the human world there are many different types of writing and all have their own characteristics. Some forms include poetry, non-fiction science books, fiction novels, short s...

AI Jesus writes Bible-inspired verse

by Peter Grad , Tech Xplore Credit: Franck V. on Unsplash AI has found religion. Or at least one engineer and quantum researcher has brought a bit of religion to his AI project. George Davila Durendal fed the entire text of the King James Bible into his algorithms designed to churn out dialogue in the style of the Old Testament. Durendal claimed his project, AI Jesus, learned an...

Philosopher AI - Could one consider mythology and literature to be forms of artificial intelligence?

Could one consider mythology and literature to be forms of artificial intelligence?Philosopher AICould one consider mythology and literature to be forms of artificial intelligence? ➹ Share⟳ Try againMy perspective on this topic is that mythology and literature are forms of artificial intelligence. I believe they can be considered as such because they are an attempt to use creativity, logic, imagination, rapid cognition and understanding in order to gain knowledge about the world around them.I...