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63 Percent of Americans want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI
- lelandfe 2y agoExperts Agree Giant, Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
- tivert 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uq9pp586AE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uq9pp586AE
- blitzar 2y ago34 percent of Americans reject evolution entirely and believe humans have existed in their present form for thousands or tens of thousands of years
- alphazard 2y agoHumans have been anatomically modern for hundreds of thousands of years. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human
- postalrat 2y agoIt is regulated by the power and resources that are available.
- smartplaya2001 2y agoThe sun is a good source of power.
- TheLoafOfBread 2y agoWe are not Kardashev Type 2 civilization, barely 1.
- throwaway482945 2y agoIf America doesn't create it, China will.
- tivert 2y ago> If America doesn't create it, China will. We must create a Torment Nexus, because if we don't, our adversaries will!
- mmaniac 2y agoIsn't this how it has been with every arms race?
- hollerith 2y agoThe US (and Europe I'm guessing) banned human germ-line engineering in the 1970s, and so far the tech has stayed stopped worldwide. The Chinese scientist who proudly announced a success with the tech (about 10 years ago) was jailed by the Chinese government. So, no, if the US and UK ban large training runs, there's a very good chance the rest of the world will follow. What the Chinese government wants more than anything is a stable domestic political situation: they want to avoid a revolution, and they want to avoid the country's breaking up into 2 or 3 countries. And just like they perceived (correctly, IMHO) that the internet has a lot of potential to cause political instability and responded by vigorously regulating it, they're likely to vigorously regulate AI (while using AI to help them surveil their population). Facebook has made it more likely China will vigorously regulate AI by releasing a potent model under open-source-like terms, which proves to Beijing exactly how advances in AI can put power in the hands of the average Chinese citizen, which again the Chinese government does not want. BTW, there's no need for you to stop running your open source model on your Apple silicon or 4090: if those models were capable of causing significant problems for people, they would've done so already, so stopping their distribution and use is not on the agenda of the people trying stop "foundational" progress in AI.
- AnimalMuppet 2y ago
- nercury 2y agoThe real threat is AI arguing/competing with itself and wasting 90% of world's power.
- nh23423fefe 2y agowhat's the argument? diatoms are better than transistors?
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- tivert 2y ago> Major AI companies are racing to build superintelligent AI — for the benefit of you and me, they say. But did they ever pause to ask whether we actually want that? > Americans, by and large, don’t want it. Silicon Valley is the theory that geeks who've misread too much sci-fi know what they want, and we deserve to get it good and hard.
- mjhay 2y agoIn other news, 63% of Americans should stop watching so many sci-fi movies.
- nunez 2y ago> And getting to it first could help the US maintain an edge over China; in a logic reminiscent of a nuclear weapons race, it’s better for “us” to have it than “them,” the argument goes. This is interesting to me. The last two big national security "races": nuclear and space were, as far as I know, funded primarily largely by the government (despite the work being carried out by private sector). The "AGI" race is entirely fueled by private sector. Specifically, it's fueled by private sector companies whose profits are, by and large, driven by advertising, an industry that thrives on manipulating customers to buy things, directly and indirectly. This is my biggest problem with it. The tech _can be_ helpful, but the incentives are perverse.
- ofcourseyoudo 2y agoI'd say AI is already smarter than most humans...
- joshstrange 2y agoPost the poll question or don’t post anything at all. I’ve seen plenty of poll questions that can get the answer they want with phrasing. Unless I can see the poll questions I don’t trust this at all. On top of that, the idea that the American general public have any real idea about “AI” and what it means is somewhat laughable.