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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
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A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
The goals of Big Tech in general - not just AI companies - is to make money through surveillance, and collaboration with fascist governments.
I'd say they're severely misaligned with human beings, democracy and basic decency. Which is totally unsurprising considering that all tech bros are psychopaths.
This is not a problem exclusive to big tech. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely. The oligarchs who own energy and military companies have been committing crimes against humanity the entire time. The vast majority of billion dollar corporations display criminally sociopathic/psychopathic behaviors to both consumers and workers.
Extreme wealth inequality should not exist. Billionaires should not exist. No kings. No oligarchs. No plutocrats. No parasites. Nobody too big to fail. Nobody above the law.
Well, I was specifically addressing AI and the fuckheads who forcibly steamroll it over our lives.
But yeah, this is a systemic problem: the rich and powerful control societies (and not just capitalist societies, to be clear), and it is my personal belief that kind men don't become rich or powerful, because becoming rich or powerful implies making someone else poorer or taking away their agency.
So if you follow the logic to its simple conclusion, the ultra-rich and ultra-powerful only get there not by being merely unkind, but by being truly evil. And this has nothing to do with the particular field they happen to be involved in.