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There is no AI risk. There is only the risk of bad or "unfavorable" actors using AI. AI in a killer drone unleashed on civilians? The bad actor is the one who
by facu17y 3y ago
There is no AI risk. There is only the risk of bad or "unfavorable" actors using AI.
AI in a killer drone unleashed on civilians? The bad actor is the one who deployed this weapon.
AI given agency and goal maximization ending up gaining physical form all on its own and killing people? or hacking into bank accounts to enrich its creator?
The latter more likely than the former, but for cyber-offensive AI there is cyber-defensive AI.
Musk lately admitted that he's an AI accelerationist (following lots of the e/acc people and liking their posts) and despite his dystopian view of AI he's pushed it very hard at Tesla. He just wants the US to give him control of it (under the pretext that no one else can manage it safely.)
- Marcan 3y agoYour first sentence literally mirrors this slogan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_don%27t_kill_people,_people_kill_people https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_don%27t_kill_people,_pe...
- facu17y 3y agoShow me how I can kill you with my LLM, or my GAN or Diffusion Model. I dare you!
- ke88y 3y agoTrue,—This! Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand!— itself a nothing!— But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Cæsars—and to strike The loud earth breathless!—Take away the sword— States can be saved without it!
- facu17y 3y agoif you have to resort to archaic writing to prove a point about the latest and most advanced piece of technology, ... you're practicing religion, not science.
- ke88y 3y agoHumans were not invented in 2017, nor were words or pictures. The question of whether you can compel violence with words and pictures isn't a question about LLMs, and it is a question for which history is instructive. The myopia of claiming otherwise is astounding.