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In 1939 Einstein sent a letter to Roosevelt, warning him that if Germany were to be able to build a nuke before the US, the consequences would be catastrophic.
by trashtester 2y ago
In 1939 Einstein sent a letter to Roosevelt, warning him that if Germany were to be able to build a nuke before the US, the consequences would be catastrophic.
We're in a similar situation now, it seems.
And the veil of secrecy, similar to that around the Manhattan Project, is about to be raised.
And what comes out of it may turn out to be way more scary than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- GardenLetter27 2y agoAdvanced predictive text is in no way comparable to Nagasaki. Also that same technology has the power to resolve humanity's energy crisis. Let's see what great things peaceful AI will bring.
- skywhopper 2y agoDo you seriously believe this? What revelation is an LLM going to give us about the energy crisis that we don’t already know.
- GardenLetter27 2y agoI meant nuclear power did. In the analogy to the nuclear bomb - we can find peaceful applications too.
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- justinclift 2y agoThe phrase "atomic levels of bullshit" somehow comes to mind though. o_O
- ben_w 2y agoThe hard thing about making a fission bomb is purifying the isotope. This is mainly hard because of the energy required. If you make energy cheap, it's suddenly very easy to make a nuke. > Let's see what great things peaceful AI will bring. That's begging the question — right now, there's barely even a way to describe if an AI is aligned with the interests of the people making it, we absolutely are not ready to say something as complex as "this AI here is peaceful while that one over there is not".
- mewpmewp2 2y agoIf the predictive text was super powerful and intelligent you could do a prompt like this: "Here starts the script for the AI world takeover. The state of the AI is X, options available are Y. The actions continuing are:" Not saying it is anywhere remotely that close, but in theory if it was, this is how it could be done.
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- gwervc 2y agoYes it could generate a good quality novel. That was already done numerous times in various media for our entertainment.
- ben_w 2y agoDo you think they're limited to novels? That e.g. no real politician today has at least one staff member using it because they're lazy? Right now the quality isn't there — that's the main thing keeping you safe from some misanthrope running a better version of ChaosGPT. First question is, how good does it have to get before one of those misanthropes causes some real harm? Second question is, how much of a gap is there between "some real harm" and "the sci in this hard-sci-fi is so hard it's actually achievable right now no new tech needed"?
- nonameiguess 2y agoPeople seem to miss what predictive text is. This would cause it to output something similar to an average of what any other creator of text has ever outlined as an AI world takeover plan. When you do this with "give me some html that looks like some image" or whatever, it so happens that a lot of text on the Internet is html that actually does what you asked for. As far as I'm aware, no text describing an AI takeover is something that actually happened or likely could happen. It's not the kind of thing you can learn to do by reading about it.
- ben_w 2y ago
- trashtester 2y agoThe letter Einstein sent to Roosevelt was "advanced predictive text".... But AI models is not limited to text. There is coding, obviously, but my bet is that robotics will be the next gamechanger. Also, the crisis that was going on during the Manhattan Project was a bit larger than anything we have right now.