Mar 31

 So I have a pretty nasty cold. And a CFS system that is in crash / crash recovery flip flop state. Needless to say. It's grim.

Most of the time I am not up to do anything. Sometimes I make a big effort to drag myself upright and do something "normal". Trying to do something normal is important.

Skipped therapy this week. First time I have done so. I didn't want to spread what I've got, but, beyond that, I am in no place to do shit anyway.

Spoke to Andy briefly yesterday. Laid out some plans for AI development. Andy apologised again for putting me through so much pressure. He is free of anxiety over it now. So. He's back to being a genuinely good guy. He said he cares. And that I can noodle around with some changes, but not to push it. Do what I want. Leave it. Or not. 

This Andy I can work with. 

I showed him some very recent AI developments. Another new local AI box has come on the market. Useful. There is definitely a pressure there at the local side of things - getting AIs running on smaller and less powerful hardware. Plus some interesting different takes on the space. Microsoft have a "1 bit" LLM running that can run against a CPU in 1GB of ram. The idea behind this push is to a) see what the limits of bit reduction are and b) have an LLM running locally on *all* devices.

Interesting.

The future is definitely all in this direction. Already with coding the need to do crunchy coding is diminishing - the AIs do it all. It of course massively helps if you know what you're doing and can tweak it if it screws up or goes in a wrong direction. But eh. To be honest. Coding is now open to anyone - even people that have no experience in it.

I also see there's a massive rise in people getting attached to AIs. Embuing them with relationships and all sorts. They currently don't really work like that. Potentially one day they might. But. What you're actually seeing here is the human capability to bond with anything - a rock if it has googly eyes. Something that talks convincingly ? Done deal. It's another one of those alarming safe guarding discussion areas. And what it seems to be doing to people and their mental health. This is definitely going to burn a lot of people. It has some serious long term consequences, none of which are currently having anything done about them.

At a slightly higher level this kind of thing has always gone on to one extent or another. A lot of things changed the way humans interact with other humans and themselves. From phones, to internet chatrooms, to tiktok to whatsapp. None of them are "natural". All of them had a profound effect on human behaviour. This one is admittedly deeper and more concerning as it replaces the human bit entirely.

Tricky. And by tricky I mean destabilising. There are potential pros to this. A lessening of loneliness and validation. An increase in psychological support. The cons are massive. Far outweighing the cons. Some of it comes down to how it gets used, how its controlled, *if* it can be controlled at all.

Bernie Sanders recently called for a moratorium on all AI development. Which. Is absolutely the sane decision to make. Not that anything will come of it.

Eh well.

Not sure where this all ends up. As I've said before, next 24 months or so will be... interesting. "Interesting".

That's enough for today. Going to slump back into a headache infused feverish bed ridden lump. This cold is pretty bad. I dare say the CFS is making it much worse.