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Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence AI developers to 20 years in prison
- add-sub-mul-div 2mo agoOkay that kicks the can down the road, but what will we do twenty years from now?
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- thesid 2mo agomake a new bill
- Neywiny 2mo agoI'm usually in agreement with him but that's dumb. 4 function calculators surpass human cognitive capability. It's too broad
- cwillu 2mo agoYou (conveniently?) left out the words “across a a broad range of domains and tasks”.
- avaer 2mo agoSurely we can agree that calculators are widely used across a broad range of domains and tasks. Obviously it's not the intent of the bill to jail calculator makers. So the bill should be written to make it clear exactly what it's criminalizing.
- Neywiny 2mo agoI think the other fellas covered it but are 4 functions a broad range? My scientific calculator does way more than that. My graphing even more. It's too open ended. It would become one of those laws that's just used to prosecute whoever they want and not one that anybody could tell you definitively if you'll be violating or not
- timmytokyo 2mo agoOk, iPhone.
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- olivierestsage 2mo agoSmart guy
- ashleyn 2mo agoHow do we stop china and russia from developing it? How come nobody seems to be talking about the obvious international treaty that would be necessary to actually ban superintelligence from being developed? At least we can deliberate some kind of enforcement mechanism in the process...
- moojacob 2mo agoMake it international law and bomb anyone who doesn’t comply
- moojacob 2mo agoTo be clear I do not endorse this opinion I am just answering the “what can be done” question.
- cwillu 2mo agoPlenty of people are discussing that.
- neonstatic 2mo agoOh, that's easy. Bernie will pick 11 volunteers and together they will be dropped off behind enemy lines. Let's call them "the Dirty Dozen". They will capture the evil bastards who violated American law outside of US borders (that's just evil) and bring them to Justice™ (Impossible is nothing. Call 1-800-JUSTICE. Conditions apply). > the obvious international treaty That's even easier. We just take the international treaty on cloud computing as a base and...
- camgunz 2mo agoThe point is an arms race is bad for everyone. "I don't know what WW3 will be fought with, but I do know WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones" type of stuff.
- neonstatic 2mo agoThe Cold War was an arms race that gave us wonderful things: amazing technologies we still use today (GPS, the Internet) and the collapse of the soviet union.
- rf15 2mo ago...and I say you're not going too far enough. Let's just slap 20 years on the scifi grifters too, please.
- moezd 2mo agoDevelopers are mostly fine, they are already buried in work and won't stop to question long and hard enough. It's the managers and sci-fi grifters that make this entire topic toxic, by assuming no limits should apply to them.
- fragmede 2mo agoand farmers too! Did you know they just steal the resources they need to grow our food? They don't pay anything for sunlight or air! Who's investigating them?
- mdp2021 2mo ago> scifi grifters That would be?
- yieldcrv 2mo agoOooh ok, dead in the water even if we pretended that any party would be able to pass the filibuster after midterms Speaking of which, doesn’t this bill die after midterms anyway? So this is just the bonus round where every inane idea gets introduced for the headline before being reset
- fwlr 2mo agoMan, it would be awesome if I could tell my boss “No, I don’t want to go to prison for 20 years” when they ask me if some magical AI thing can be done.
- dyauspitr 2mo agoFor the first time I completely disagree with Bernie and banning AI development is the stupidest thing I can think of.
- washadjeffmad 2mo agoThe HN title has been editorialized... and techno-oligarchs really, really hate Sanders. The bill isn't about using LLMs to merge your pull requests, it's about discouraging people or companies who might be working on their own private Manhattan Projects from intentionally trying to create the impact equivalent of nuclear weapons, or "Artificial Superintelligence". We're getting closer than not to an A(S)I arms race. Sanders has lived his entire life in that, and I've been smelling it for a while, too.
- mdp2021 2mo agoAnd you would use an LLM to perform actions when it is not a superintelligence?! We want morons to be under much more than restraining order distance.
- mdp2021 2mo agoAnd members of the Dems give further gifts to the opponents. Question: how aware are they? Given the missed "intellectual solidity" of the submitted proposal, there is a chance that their effective support to the other party is not conscious. And in terms of civilization, the confrontation is downgraded to ventral partitism, hysterical: "not like it" vs "really want it or do not mind".
- zoobab 2mo agoI propose an amendement with Death Sentence with Lethal injection, 20 years in jail is not enough if we follow the gradation of sentences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection
- mdp2021 2mo agoI propose the twisted massage suggestive torture machine that appeared in the first episode of Monkey Punch's Lupin III. /J
- BoingBoomTschak 2mo agoFinally, the Butlerian Jihad is entering the Overton window.
- graemep 2mo agoI assume the US will also ban the use for foreign models as part of this. Pausing development means the people with the currently most advanced models are shielded from competition, especially if foreign competition is not allowed. A new agency will impose heavy regulation which can easily be twisted to favour incumbents.
- throw310822 2mo agoThis person has missed reading classes, is dishonest or just stupid. The law proposal bans research on ASI, and sets penalties for those who transgress the ban. Seems quite obvious to me. The law that bans clandestine efforts to build nuclear weapons is not "proposing to sentence nuclear physicists to 20 years in prison". (Btw, "up to" doesn't mean "to". Second comprehension mistake in a few lines- I bet all current generation of LLMs have better understanding.)
- mdp2021 2mo ago> The law proposal bans research on ASI Which is exactly the same as the submission's post, obvious interpretations of "AI" aside: how can we implement Intelligence without enabling superintelligence at the same time?! And of course we must implement Intelligence, finally: we have implemented further morons, of which we already had plentiful abundance - already the LLM stage must be corrected!
- throw310822 2mo agoWe might agree or disagree with the statement that AGI and ASI are dangerous (economically, societally, existentially) and research needs to be paused- which means making their development (temporarily) illegal. If you accept that it is the case, though, you need to accept that there are penalties for those who violate the law.
- mdp2021 2mo agoWhat you wrote makes no sense in the chain: "If you accepted that C were a crime than C should be sanctioned" - this is not the point. Who argues against that non-matter? You stated that the submission did not represent the facts because the facts are about banning «research on ASI», and you were replied that what we are doing in the LLM direction cannot be other than researching ASI. And you were told: and we must, because we cannot be contented with morons.
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