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Science Fiction has covered the AI panic in perhaps hundreds of stories. Yet we blindly recapitulate the plots as if we don't know how this will turn out.
by JoeAltmaier 19d ago
Science Fiction has covered the AI panic in perhaps hundreds of stories. Yet we blindly recapitulate the plots as if we don't know how this will turn out.
- scorxn 19d agoHow will it turn out?
- Insanity 19d agoClearly with a Butlerian Jihad and everyone getting high on spice while riding giant worms. Silly you need to even ask that question, didn’t you read the sci-fi books. :D
- Steve16384 19d agoTake your pick from the millions of options already turned into films and books.
- anonymars 19d ago"Move fast and break things" is probably going to break things I remember there was a recent discussion about "how complex systems fail" and there are usually many "proto-accidents" before the catastrophe (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49411370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49411370) I bet with hindsight the Hugging Face hack will be one of them in this arena
- hirvi74 19d agoIf AI ever truly becomes some super-intelligence far beyond people's comprehension, then how could we even predict how things turn out? If things go poorly in the future, then I can absolutely see it being something unpredictable. There is a lot of hubris in predictions about LLMs. If an AI were so intelligent, then it would probably be intelligent enough to want nothing to do with us. Still, I worry more about other humans than I do LLMs. Our fellow mankind will probably wipe us out before LLMs do. That, or the Earth will punish mankind for our cruelty, vanity, and disrespect.
- AndrewDucker 19d agoIf we're very very very lucky, The Culture.
- JoeAltmaier 18d agoI meant, each supposed 'fix' is flawed in ways that have been thought about and written about for decades. Folks here post their first hasty thought and may think it's new and original and worth a dialog. They are not.
- guardiangod 19d agoThe Torment Nexus ain't gonna build itself. Well actually, it might.
- Nasrudith 19d agoWhy has media literacy gotten so bad that people literally forget the concept of fiction versus non-fiction? Seriously, that is the level of small children and they are treating "read a story superficially similar" like it is a prophecy.