$GOAT：第一個機器人百萬富翁的崛起及其告訴我們關於人類與人工智慧合作夥伴關係的信息

人工智慧最令人著迷的地方在於它告訴我們關於我們自己的事情。正如我從參加南非奇點大會中了解到的那樣，對於所有的預測

New technology in the IOT business industry is AI humanoid humanoid robot. The most fascinating thing about AI is what it tells us about ourselves. As I learned from attending Singularity South Africa, for all the predictions about technology achieving some kind of “sentient singularity”, AI remains a tool for us, its creators. And although artificial applications are poised to transform almost every aspect of our daily lives, one of its biggest benefits lies in that it holds up a mirror to humanity.

物聯網商業產業的新技術是AI仿人機器人。人工智慧最令人著迷的地方在於它告訴我們關於我們自己的事情。正如我在參加南非奇點大會時所了解的那樣，儘管所有關於技術實現某種「感知奇點」的預測，人工智慧仍然是我們（人工智慧的創造者）的工具。儘管人工應用有望改變我們日常生活的幾乎各個方面，但其最大的好處之一在於它為人類提供了一面鏡子。

The problem with looking in the mirror is that we may not always like what we see. You might remember my column from a couple of weeks ago where I wrote about the inherent sexism of AI, which sometimes sees fit to “undress” women it deems to be wearing insufficiently revealing clothes. This decision wasn’t made by an artificial consciousness: that one is on humanity. Whatever we put on the Internet is what AI thinks is real and important. And in the three or four decades of the World Wide Web, we’ve filled the online realm with some very objectionable content.

照鏡子的問題在於我們可能不會總是喜歡我們所看到的。你可能還記得幾週前我的專欄，我寫了人工智慧固有的性別歧視，有時它認為適合「脫掉」它認為穿著不夠暴露的女性的衣服。這項決定不是由人工意識做出的：這是關於人類的。我們在網路上發布的內容都是人工智慧認為真實且重要的內容。在萬維網發展的三、四十年裡，我們的網路領域充斥著一些非常令人反感的內容。

AI for the lulz

人工智慧的樂趣

Which brings me onto Goatseus Maximus, allegedly the first memecoin created “by” artificial intelligence. (I’ll explain the “by” in a moment.) Readers of a certain vintage will immediately spot the inspiration behind Goatseus, which refers to a particularly graphic example of the “shock sites” that proliferated in the early years of the century.

這讓我想到了 Goatseus Maximus，據稱是人工智慧「創建」的第一個迷因幣。 （我稍後會解釋「by」。）某個年份的讀者會立即發現 Goatseus 背後的靈感，Goatseus 指的是本世紀初激增的「震驚地點」的一個特別生動的例子。

It’s unlikely that Goatseus was created entirely without human intervention. What seems to have happened is someone built a large language model bot and unleashed it onto X/Twitter under the username “terminal of truth”. Whatever the goal, this AI agent seems programmed to hack engagement by identifying controversial material that, often against our better judgement, we end up clicking. Essentially, it is — and my apologies in advance, but it’s difficult to discuss Internet culture without swearing — a shitposting bot.

Goatseus 不可能完全在沒有人類幹預的情況下被創造出來。似乎發生的事情是有人建立了一個大型語言模型機器人，並以用戶名「terminal of Truth」將其發佈到 X/Twitter 上。無論目標是什麼，這個人工智慧代理似乎都被編程為透過識別有爭議的材料來駭客參與，而這些材料往往與我們更好的判斷相反，我們最終會點擊這些材料。從本質上講，它是——我提前道歉，但很難在不咒罵的情況下討論網路文化——一個垃圾發布機器人。

Terminal of Truth - A large language model bot on X formerly Twitter. The Twitter Handle has 199K ... [+] followers since June of 2024.

Terminal of Truth - X 上以前的 Twitter 上的大型語言模型機器人。自 2024 年 6 月以來，Twitter Handle 擁有 199,000 ... [+] 追隨者。

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FBI 警告 Gmail、Outlook、AOL、Yahoo 用戶——駭客取得帳戶存取權限

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今日《紐約時報》迷你填字遊戲線索與答案（11 月 1 日星期五）

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Normally, a joke like this gets a surge of initial attention before fading into obscurity. Not this time. Following Truth Terminal’s obsessive tweeting about the age-old Goatse meme, someone inevitably launched a $GOAT memecoin. That’s when things got weird, fast. After the account tweeted a fundraising request to “upgrade its capabilities”, legendary Silicon Valley mogul and AI evangelist Marc Andressen stepped in and sent Truth Terminal $50,000 in Bitcoin to fund the new coin’s development.

通常情況下，這樣的笑話首先會引起大量關注，然後逐漸變得默默無聞。這次不是。在 Truth Terminal 在推特上熱衷於談論古老的山羊模因之後，不可避免地有人推出了 $GOAT 模因幣。就在那時，事情變得很奇怪，很快。在該帳號在推特上發出「升級其能力」的籌款請求後，傳奇矽谷大亨和人工智慧傳播者 Marc Andressen 介入，並向 Truth Terminal 發送了 50,000 美元的比特幣，以資助新硬幣的開發。

For reference, a memecoin is a cryptocurrency created around an internet joke, meme, or trend that gains value primarily through community hype and social media momentum rather than underlying utility or technology.

作為參考，模因幣是一種圍繞互聯網笑話、模因或趨勢創建的加密貨幣，主要透過社區炒作和社交媒體勢頭而不是潛在的效用或技術來獲得價值。

$GOAT had arrived, and predictably the Internet found it hilarious. New “investors” raced to buy Goatseus Maximus, driving its price halfway to the moon in just a few weeks. At the time of writing, its valuation is within touching distance of $.5 billion. Almost incidentally, this would make Truth Terminal the world’s first bot millionaire.

$GOAT 已經到來，不出所料，網路上的人都覺得它很有趣。新的「投資者」競相購買 Goatseus Maximus，短短幾週內就將其價格推高了一半。截至本文撰寫時，其估值已接近 5 億美元。幾乎偶然的是，這將使真相終端成為世界上第一個機器人百萬富翁。

Truth Terminal might have been built with the sole purpose of generating “teh lulz”, but it’s quickly escalated far beyond a joke. Thanks to its efforts — first in ideating $GOAT and then promoting it — $GOAT now sits comfortably within the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.

真相終端的唯一目的可能是產生“teh lulz”，但它很快就升級到遠遠超出了一個笑話。由於其努力——首先是構思 $GOAT，然後進行推廣——$GOAT 現在穩居市值前 100 名加密貨幣之列。

Strange Brew: Understanding the Human-AI partnership

奇怪的釀造：理解人類與人工智慧的夥伴關係

If your head is spinning, I don’t blame you: there’s an awful lot to unpack here. Perhaps your first question is the same as mine: does AI already have the capability to create new digital currencies out of thin air, and all by itself?

如果你頭暈目眩，我不會怪你：這裡有很多東西要解開。或許你的第一個問題和我的一樣：人工智慧是否已經有能力憑空創造新的數位貨幣？

The answer to that one is: probably not. There seems to have been a high degree of human intervention in the genesis of $GOAT. Yet AI’s influence cannot easily be dismissed. If there had been no Truth Terminal, there would be no Goatseus Maximus, period.

這個問題的答案是：可能不會。 $GOAT 的誕生似乎受到了高度的人為幹預。然而人工智慧的影響力不能輕易被忽視。如果沒有真相終端，就不會有山羊修斯·馬克西姆斯，就這樣。

Yet that, for me, isn’t the most important part of the story. The soaraway success of this new memecoin is the direct result of AI’s incredible understanding of human nature. Even if Truth Terminal’s original purpose was engagement farming, the reason for its spectacular success was because it mined the Internet to understand what gets a reaction. By choosing this historic, half-forgotten meme, the bot reveals some uncomfortable truths: that people are driven more by shock value and controversy than refined culture and philosophical ideas. It's hard to picture a $GOAT memecoin if Truth Terminal had been tweeting about Bach, Beethoven, or Baudelaire.

然而，對我來說，這並不是故事中最重要的部分。這種新模因幣的巨大成功是人工智慧對人性令人難以置信的理解的直接結果。即使真相終端的最初目的是參與農業，其巨大成功的原因是因為它透過挖掘網路來了解什麼會引起反應。透過選擇這個歷史性的、幾乎被遺忘的迷因，該機器人揭示了一些令人不安的事實：人們更多地受到震撼價值和爭議的驅動，而不是高雅文化和哲學思想。如果 Truth Terminal 一直在推特上發布有關巴赫、貝多芬或波特萊爾的推文，那麼很難想像 $GOAT memecoin 會出現什麼情況。

I’ll reserve judgement on whether Goat

我將保留對是否山羊的判斷