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There was no GPT3 or DALL-E in 1984, and no way to viscerally convey the (presumed) capabilities of such systems to the average person. In practice, the average
by fatherzine 4y ago
There was no GPT3 or DALL-E in 1984, and no way to viscerally convey the (presumed) capabilities of such systems to the average person. In practice, the average person is so disempowered that nothing will change. We will step into the transhuman era with utmost vanity.
- anotherman554 4y agoI'm sure a malicious programmer could do a great deal of harm with GPT3 or DALL-E, but I'm still not seeing how these programs suggest that computers are going to take over the world. At some point it simply becomes an act of faith to assume technology is going to progress to the point where robots can self replicate, achieve sentience, and achieve autonomy from humanity. Phillip K Dick wrote a science fiction short story with such a premise entitled "second variety" in 1953. It's not a new idea. It doesn't seem to be subject to evidence, because you can't really prove a negative, can you? If a breakthrough will never happen to allow machines to take over the world, there's no way to prove it.