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Is what they call “AI” actually dangerous or is just some common misconception about how powerful language models imply skynet taking over the world?
by iammrpayments 2y ago
Is what they call “AI” actually dangerous or is just some common misconception about how powerful language models imply skynet taking over the world?
- jiggawatts 2y agoIt’ll enable mass surveillance, and hence it is the wet dream of authoritarian governments like China. They can intercept every call and every message now, but they can’t read it all or build a file on a billion citizens. Human intelligence doesn’t scale, but AI inference does. In the very near future (maybe the present!) every call will be listened in by an AI with a system message along the lines of “Report any anti-government or potentially rebellious behaviour. Summarise the conversation for each party and add it to their permanent file.”
- Philpax 2y agoThe end goal is something capable of human-level intelligence in most, if not all, fields, and from there, it's not that difficult to continue scaling it up across speed / scale (and perhaps intelligence.) See Dario Amodei's Machines of Loving Grace: https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace It doesn't take much imagination to think about how this could end poorly if it goes wrong or is controlled by the wrong party.