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"AI is as revolutionary as nuclear weapons and the internet. The government should spend hundreds of billions on it." – CEO of an AI company who will be the ben
by paxys 2y ago
"AI is as revolutionary as nuclear weapons and the internet. The government should spend hundreds of billions on it." – CEO of an AI company who will be the beneficiary of all that public spending.
Looking from the outside, the AI hype is pretty much over. Yes it is still an important piece of tech and will still continue to evolve, but I don't know too many people, whether regular joes or world leaders, who still consider it an existential threat to humanity or really think about it much at all.
- bloppe 2y agoI cringe every time I read the words "go rogue" in an AI article. The state of the art is still basically madlibs. Sure, I'm worried about terrorists using AI to generate new bioweapons, but including those concerns in the same breath as something about skynet makes it sound childish.
- mistrial9 2y agothis answer fully misses fundamental aspects of computers and networks. Computers can work 24x7 week after week, month after month. Large computer clouds can answer millions of queries a minute, as long as required. Modern data tech enables the complete and total collection of specialist knowledge of XYZ to be available at all times, with competitive accuracy. This answer is not applying the imagination to circumstances where events happen in real time involving millions of people, their transportation systems, their communication systems and power disparity between those driving the AIs and those relying on public systems or market systems. Since some AIs are built as "goal seeking" they can iterate through whatever resources they have internally, much faster than any person or team of people can track. Much of modern AI is literally a black box when it comes to tracing what happens to reach some abstractly defined goal. Your cringe is a cringe at your own myopia. I am not paranoid nor exaggerating.. Others with credentials in this field, and others with details of system behavior today, are saying things similar to this.
- toasterlovin 2y agoOut here in physical reality you still need humans to do things. That isn't changing any time soon.
- mistrial9 2y agomore glossing over the obvious.. automated systems of all kinds are deployed today; monitoring and access control of physical spaces -- rapidly expanding.. locks, access codes, fueling, finance flows.. do not even consider finance flows as "humans need to do things" ?
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoPatronizing and wrong. Drones which return and charge, and can be controlled by software, exist. Automated hacking of systems exists. Various pieces of infrastructure are completely at the control of software systems. LLMs can write software. It takes very little imagination to see things going badly. The straw man of "AI has no goals, can't run by itself blah blah blah" is ridiculous. That's not the threat. The threat is a raving lunatic with some serious skills which gives the LLM goals and a computer from where to execute code to get them done.
- bloppe 2y agoAutonomous killer drones are scary. But that's not AI "going rogue". They're working as designed. That's really the only factor that makes AI scary to me: bad human actors.
- sabbaticaldev 2y agoa LLM with event loop, access to the internet and long term memory will be able to hack autonomous killer drones
- danielmarkbruce 2y ago/probably is trying right now.