Sanrith Descartes
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The bigger problem is going to be distinguishing scientifically valid ideas, dangerous or otherwise, from the torrents of sciency-sounding bullshit this will produce.
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Or you ask it how to make a lemon pie and it gives you the chlorine gas version...
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Mist
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This is how most reasonable people have felt about climate change for years.
We were never able to control the worst consequences of capitalism, so why would we think we could control the worst consequences of AI? AI is just the ultimate extension of that same system. Sensible regulation of AI will not happen because the free market demands that the machine grinds forward.
It's obvious to me that the machine has been in control for longer than any of us realize; humanity is the walking dead. Only now that we can talk to the machine do we recognize it as a threat, because that's how our human minds work.
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Elon Musk plans AI startup to rival OpenAI, Financial Times reports
Billionaire Elon Musk is working on launching an artificial intelligence start-up that will rival ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, the Financial Times reported on Friday citing people familiar with his plans.
Looks like Elon signed that letter to pause AI development just to slow it down so he can play catch up.
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Mist
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This was pretty obvious, the whole "6-month pause" idea is a joke. In six months is humanity going to fundamentally solve the 'Moloch' problem that these people keep talking about? It would take six decades to get these people to admit that their 'Moloch' is just another word for capitalism.Elon Musk plans AI startup to rival OpenAI, Financial Times reports
Billionaire Elon Musk is working on launching an artificial intelligence start-up that will rival ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, the Financial Times reported on Friday citing people familiar with his plans.www.reuters.com
Looks like Elon signed that letter to pause AI development just to slow it down so he can play catch up.
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No, but only because I don't like humans very much, so take that for what it's worth.
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Kurzweil predicted "human level" AI by 2029 and singularity by 2045. Dude was right on a LOT of tech predictions.
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The long answers is that I don't think that humans have ever been in control of their own destiny, that free will is an illusion, and that only bear witness to the universe rather than shape it. In this case it may mean that we will bear witness to our end, or our irrelevance. Artificial intelligence may simply just be inevitable.
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Your body is worthless for harvesting outside of parts for more useful humans. Your cheap mineral and energy requirements, ability to learn and perform simple tasks, and scalable reproduction are your only reasons for existing.
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The inevitability is part of the problem. It's coming, doesn't matter if it's this later this week or later this century, only thing that matters is what it will be like when it gets here. Capitalist AI might suck but it'll pale in the hellscape created by one created to enforce a cult-of-personality dictatorship or one that is trained to enforce radical religious ideology. It's the ultimate culture war.
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My fear has always been more about the loner nihilist attempting as much chaos as possible through AI vs some kind of terminator scenario.
or who is even more dreadful to imagine with destructive AI? Our government, yikes !
My first example more specifically would be a Mr Robot type kid that programmed the AI to run some kind of steady power grid attack while fending off counters. Obviously my imagination isn’t great, but I worry more about that kind of fuckery than the nukes flying
or who is even more dreadful to imagine with destructive AI? Our government, yikes !
My first example more specifically would be a Mr Robot type kid that programmed the AI to run some kind of steady power grid attack while fending off counters. Obviously my imagination isn’t great, but I worry more about that kind of fuckery than the nukes flying
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You're missing the point of what I'm saying.
Relentless optimizing for X, regardless of what X is, is incompatible with humans having a good life. AI is just the ultimate manifestation of the machine's desire to optimize away humanity.