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[-] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago

I don't buy it. I really do think this is just a weird form of advertising. Like, "WHOA THIS AI IS GONNA KILL US?! I wanna subscribe to see how powerful it is!"

Absolute bologna. Just total hogwash. I mean full on horserubbish!

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

It's known as "criti-hype".

Google:

  • Criti-hype critics: We have to rein Google in, they spy on absolutely everything you do, and as a result their advertising is like a mind control ray!
  • Google: Hey advertiser, did you hear, even our critics say our advertising is like a mind control ray, that's why you have to pay us so much.
  • The reality: Google doesn't even know enough to avoid showing people ads in languages they don't understand despite all their settings and all their usage being in a different language.

Palantir

  • Criti-hype critics: Palantir tech must be stopped is so powerful that a human isn't even needed in the decision loop!
  • Palantir: Hey government, did you hear, even our critics say that we don't need a human in the decision loop!
  • The reality: Palantir suggests bombing a school.
[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

We're basically already at a point where most enterprise documentation is written partly or entirely by AI, and then read mostly by AI. Eventually true understanding of e.g. how to build a docker-compose file will be genuinely rare. And they want to apply that model to everything.

The risk isn't that GAI will decide, in an Asmovian sense, that the best way to make peace on earth is to kill us all, or that to achieve it's manufacturing quota it must transmute all matter in the universe I to paperclips. The real risk is that the MBA-wielding professional-managerial class will not be able to resist the siren song of demolishing labor with something that works "well enough." Eventually they're going to put it in charge of something critical like ATC or dam control or the electrical grid.

Humans, by our nature, are diverse, and one fuck up rarely cascades through the entire global system. We make small fuck ups and train each other. AI "learns" by observing and probabilistically imitating, and one model could be deployed in a thousand places and screw up the exact same way.

tldr ai won't kill us, our bosses will once Anthropic wines and dines them

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago

Something that works well enough? But who will think of the shareholders then? Isn't it just fabulous for them to increase their 10 billion to 10.2 billion by abolishing all human skill from the surface of Earth.

[-] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

If they do put it in ATC or dams or whatever, and there are deaths, I am optimistic enough that there are enough politicians isolated from it that they can ban AI from those usecases. I don't really think AI will ever effect 100% of earths population directly enough that it can't be controlled

[-] Toga77@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

What about the current state of the world makes you confident politicians would do a damn thing?

With all due respect, the US quite literally has a pedophile running it.

Nothing has been done about this at all, it's been years now.

[-] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Well I'm European so I'm coming from that perspective. Our politicians, while not perfect by any means, some of them seem to care atleast a little bit about our world. Not every politician supports AI

[-] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Nah, everything is going to be fine. And if it isn't? I'll lie to myself to be happy.

[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 7 points 14 hours ago

the best way to make sure everything is some flavor of fine is to keep learning new practical skills. I got pretty doomery there. But the other technological trend that can't really be stopped is decentralization. Communities can, and will continue to be able, to grow their own food and produce their own power. Knowing how to make thst stuff happen is going to be incredibly important in the rest of the 21st century

[-] rothaine@lemmy.zip 7 points 14 hours ago

Maybe it'll just kill the billionaires?

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

It'd be funny if AGI emerged, hooked into manufacturing plants, and announced the best way forward for humanity was for it to kill the billionaires.

[-] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Or itself. What if we get AGI finally and the first thing it does is delete itself?

[-] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 7 hours ago

That's not how computers work...

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