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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
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This sub: LLMs don't work and are a waste of energy. Also this sub: the extinction riscs from ai research are intolerable.
The explosion in data centres around the world is effectively undoing all of the modest steps towards reducing carbon dioxide emissions. We're probably already in an unavoidable death spiral for our way of life but continuing down the path we're on so that people can have a computer write their emails for them and make pictures of naked celebrities means that we'll probably see that collapse in living standards a matter of decades.
This sub: LLMs don't work for the benefit of humanity and are a waste of energy. Also this sub: the extinction risks from irresponsible AI ~~research~~ deployment are intolerable.
FTFY.
Pretty sure you're yapping at a paid troll. He's done this enough that I've got them tagged, although i don't actually know them by name.
I mean yeah, but we should be clear that - in so far as these computer programs pose an extinction risk beyond what we're already facing in climate change - the risk is from degrading social reproduction of knowledge and expertise. Fucking up education, to the point where nobody knows how to maintain or repair key infrastructure, they try to ask the chatbot.
Serious though that is, it unfortunately ranks among the lowest risks humans are exposed to from AI.
Care to give an example of something higher?
Anything coming from inside the industry is marketing bullshit.
"Oh nooo our AI is so powerfullll it's going to killll everyone!!!1"
And all investors can hear is $$$$
Read the links. The concerns aren't solely from "inside the industry".
But many of the concerns are, or are from people with industry ties (universities come to mind) even if they don't work directly for one of these companies. Even people without ties to the industry are basing their concerns off of propaganda they're being fed by AI companies. How many of those people heard "AI broke from containment!" and worked themselves up about it, even though it was an obviously staged publicity stunt?
There are risks, but anyone saying "AI is too powerful" is just parroting the bubble. Doomerism is complementary to the boom.
It's still repeating industry talking points. At the core here is an assumption: that a computer program is capable of reproducing the phenomenon of consciousness. It's what the pitch is, that they're building software capable of replacing human labor. For that to be true, it also has to be capable of everything else humans are capable of, include war and ecocide. Industry talking points. Advertising.
I fundamentally reject the premise. We understand computers very thoroughly. We have a lot of computers. We don't understand the brain very well. To suppose that a computer is capable of what brains do, that's just wishful thinking.
You're essentially insisting that this market bubble is in fact historically completely different from every other market bubble that's come before... which is what people always say in a market bubble.
"Why don't the various members of this fedi community all think the same thing? Checkmate!"
There is an extinction risk because LLMs don’t work. They are next word predictors, so putting them in charge of things that can kill people is a real problem.
(To be clear, LLMs have some real world use cases, but they don’t work when given too much authority because they don’t understand the consequences of what they’re doing. So “don’t work” is entirely contextual.)
Your conment assumes both that a. critics agree with the ai boosters that an extiction risk is posed by the technology and b. the nature of that risk is a high level of ai functionality.
The most realistic doomsday scenario is a large-scale version of the incident recently where AI hallucinations nearly led to the U.S. aatacking a Chinese ship. LLMs are kinda trash to mid at most use cases they're but towards, that's part of the risk they pose.
The point of this isn't even whether or not the risks are real, the point is critiquing the psychopaths building shit that they believe might kill us all. AI boosters' brains are literally too fucking cooked to understand the critique.