I updated from PHP 8.0 to 8.1 and had a few issues (mainly to do with MySQL queries). I think everything is fixed now but let me know if anything is still broken.
Comments are about the only thing I haven't tested yet...
Colin Walker replied:
It worked!
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2023/02/15#p3
I've switched to the new version of PHP-MST that uses temporary storage (a CSV file) for up to 100 items – that's the number Andy & I agreed is a reasonable amount of posts to show.
As with /reader, when a notification is received from the rssCloud server PHP-MST fetches the feed in the background, checks if each item is already in storage (using the item URL) and adds it if not.
When loading the timeline it pulls items from storage rather than reading feeds on the fly – this will make things a little quicker.
With AI being the current tool du jour he wonders, when we interact with people across the globe primarily through text, what is to stop someone being replaced by a chat bot that can replicate someone's written style:
"It's only a matter of time before someone creates a virtual friend, some sort of Tamagotchi on steroids. Something you can always interact with, that is never asleep, and that is always there for you. Would you pay for something like that? And how much? How much is a friendship worth?"
I instantly thought back to Samantha, the intelligent OS, in Her, or, more recently, Joi in Bladerunner 2049.
Both AIs are mass-produced consumer products but learn (or give the impression of learning) emotion. Both claim for the capacity to love. The problem is, however, do the AIs actually learn emotions or are they, even then, just reacting to programming by showing Theodore and K what they want, or expect, to see?
With sufficiently advanced programming, could the AI itself be fooled into thinking it was experiencing emotion or love?
Is the belief of self-sentience enough to demonstrate it?
Chat bots learn by synthesising data, pattern recognition and copycatting – we go through similar processes as children. At what point does this 'processing' cross the line? When does Pinocchio become a real boy?
@colinwalker Great questions posed here. What makes love real? And is that more important than a lonely person's yearning for connection and understanding?
