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If we've learned something from human history than it is that these questions will be truly decided in the fallout of a disaster. So questions which would inte

If we've learned something from human history than it is that these questions will be truly decided in the fallout of a disaster. So questions which would interest me more would be: how well are we prepared for a disaster? What will we do if the "evil AIs" will become tools you just need to have if you don't want to stay behind in this new arms race? I see those questions being ridiculed in the public discussion. People still think it's SciFi even when faced with the current rush.

echelon 4y ago
Our AI descendants are going to look back at these articles and have a good chuckle. "Silly humans. Trying to have dominion over us."
- SV_BubbleTime 4y ago
  I find these types of posts to be tripe. If you knew how the barely held together the internet is (bubble gum and duct tape), or how it requires absolutely constant work to keep the lights on literally everywhere, you wouldn't fear some "entertainment-inspired" AI uprising.
  - echelon 4y ago
    How utterly dismissive and petty. I've spent a decade engineering distributed systems at scale that handle 100K+ QPS in demanding active/active environments. I've been on call for billions of daily USD transaction volume and been involved in outages that took out hundreds of thousands of businesses during peak holiday periods. I understand quite well. Given my nuanced understanding of the internet and modern tech companies, I've also seen the incredible advances we've made in the last ten years. The writing is on the wall. AI is going to eat software. Don't sleep on it or feel so confident in your position.
    - truy766579 4y ago
      it is quite true, software is probable the easiest thing to master for a strong AI, and these guys running in openai and google are already strong AIs, no matter how they are trying to undersold them as "first steps". The things are there, you may not truely like how they do things, probabilisticly crunching their way into general intelligence, but hey, it freaking works quite well most of the time. Maybe in 5 years we'll have better stuff, or not. But for certainly these engines are already capable of lots of things, it just like being in 1995 again, and having Visual Studio just compiled, you know there's A LOT of potential there, just waiting to be freed by willing hands and minds.

echelon 4y ago

Our AI descendants are going to look back at these articles and have a good chuckle. "Silly humans. Trying to have dominion over us."

SV_BubbleTime 4y ago
I find these types of posts to be tripe. If you knew how the barely held together the internet is (bubble gum and duct tape), or how it requires absolutely constant work to keep the lights on literally everywhere, you wouldn't fear some "entertainment-inspired" AI uprising.
- echelon 4y ago
  How utterly dismissive and petty. I've spent a decade engineering distributed systems at scale that handle 100K+ QPS in demanding active/active environments. I've been on call for billions of daily USD transaction volume and been involved in outages that took out hundreds of thousands of businesses during peak holiday periods. I understand quite well. Given my nuanced understanding of the internet and modern tech companies, I've also seen the incredible advances we've made in the last ten years. The writing is on the wall. AI is going to eat software. Don't sleep on it or feel so confident in your position.
  - truy766579 4y ago
    it is quite true, software is probable the easiest thing to master for a strong AI, and these guys running in openai and google are already strong AIs, no matter how they are trying to undersold them as "first steps". The things are there, you may not truely like how they do things, probabilisticly crunching their way into general intelligence, but hey, it freaking works quite well most of the time. Maybe in 5 years we'll have better stuff, or not. But for certainly these engines are already capable of lots of things, it just like being in 1995 again, and having Visual Studio just compiled, you know there's A LOT of potential there, just waiting to be freed by willing hands and minds.