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I wish AI had never been invented.
by carabiner 1y ago
I wish AI had never been invented.
- _9za9 1y ago[flagged]
- DangitBobby 1y agoIt's a technology that enables a set of behaviors. Seems reasonable to wish that didn't happen if you don't like the behaviors.
- scotty79 1y agoHow about just wishing that the behaviors didn't happen?
- DangitBobby 1y agoI see wishing people weren't the way they are is a bit more... intrusive? than just wishing LLMs were slept on. Like if you had a genie in a bottle the less evil wish would be for LLMs to not have been developed.
- nemo 1y agoThoughts and prayers.
- scotty79 1y agoIf we wish upon a star, why whish against technology instead of against bothersome things people do with it?
- mcphage 1y agoBecause one of those wishes has a chance of being acted upon, and the other doesn't.
- scotty79 1y agoGive that the technology is virtually always unstoppable and the behavior policing is on the rise in places such as UK, it seems that people might be wrong as to which of those two is actionable.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoScience has allowed us to destroy our planet at industrial scale and provided the tools to destroy ourselves and as a result all humans will likely be dead long before the next planet killer asteroid. Science rules! (I'm only half joking)
- mcphage 1y ago> it's just an algorithm, like any other algorithm Can you bubble sort your way into a video resembling Robin Williams?
- anigbrowl 1y agoIt's not just an algorithm. it's also a massive application of computing resources and a complete indifference to the numerous people pointing out why x, y, and z are really bad ideas.
- drdeca 1y agoThis is a bad argument. You may as well say “It’s just a thing that has been invented. Do you wish that all things that have been invented hadn’t been invented?”.
- JohnFen 1y agoScience and technology are very different things.
- jolt42 1y agoALL technology can be used for good or bad. It's the usage, not the invention.
- thinkingtoilet 1y agoRight. But a machine that helps plant seeds at scale could be used for bad by running someone over, but it's core purpose it to do something helpful. AI's core purpose isn't to do anything good right now. It's about how many jobs it can take, how many artists can it steal from and put out of work, and so on and so on. How many people die from computer mice each year? How many from guns? They're both technology and can be used for good or bad. To hand wave the difference away is dangerous and naive.
- prerok 1y agoBut... the machine that plants seeds also takes away the livelihood to a bunch of folks. I mean, in my country, we were an agrarian society 100 years ago. I don't have the actual stats but it was close to 90% agrarian. Now, it's at about 5%. Sure, people found other jobs and that will likely be the case here. I will do the dishes while the AI will program.
- thinkingtoilet 1y agoI understand the industrial revolution happened. To say this revolution is the same and will produce the same benefits is already factually wrong. One revolution created a net positive of jobs. One has only taken jobs.
- nhecker 1y agoHowever, aren't there now a lot of job openings out there for LLM-whisperers and other kinds of AI domain experts? Surely these didn't exist in the same quantity 10 years ago. (I'm just picking nits. I do agree that this "revolution" is not the same and will not necessarily produce the same benefits as the industrial revolution.)
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- wyre 1y agoIt seems that most of the toxic AI stuff has really only been coming out of a handful of companies: OpenAI, Meta, Palantir, Anduril. I am aware this is a layman take.
- ekjhgkejhgk 1y agoDo you wish that nuclear weapons had never been invented? My point is that like any technology, it's how you use it.
- maximilianburke 1y agoYes.
- ekjhgkejhgk 1y agoWell, a lot of us have a curious mind. Like, fission is a property of this universe. Gradient descent is a property of this universe. All you're saying is you'd rather not know about it. I'm happy that nuclear weapons and AI have been invented, and I'm excited about the future.
- drdeca 1y agoOk, but regardless of your feelings about AI, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t wish that nuclear weapons had never been invented. (Well, maybe it ended the combat between the US and Japan faster…, and maybe prevented the Cold War from becoming a hot war, but still, is that really worth the constant looming threat of nuclear Armageddon?)
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- wartywhoa23 1y agoIf only having a curious mind would imply having a far-sighted and responsible one.
- ekjhgkejhgk 1y agoIt normally does. That's why I can consider that nuclear weapons might have better uses in the future, presently unknown to us, and you can't.
- nunez 1y agoI mean, there are AI applications that have improved humanity without threatening to enslave it, like computational photography, automated driver assistance for autos and biomedical applications. LLM and stable diffusion though? Yep; agree.
- carabiner 1y agoTrad ML = good. LLMs have been a disaster for the human race.
- beeflet 1y agowhat is AI? It is a loose word that changes meaning depending on the era.
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- insane_dreamer 1y agoAssuming by "AI" you mean LLMs in their current incarnation (starting with GPT), I tend to agree. On balance I see the harm outweighing the benefits for society.