Posted on 06/05/2025 8:56:18 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Palms were greased.
Deep Blue
Deep Blue. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue did something that no machine had done before. In May of that year, it became the first computer system to defeat a reigning world chess champion in a match under standard tournament controls.
HAL makes beeping sounds lights flashing
I have already witness the major decline of a spiritual society via modern technologies being used to replace direct human interaction. I believe that AI will finish us off. It will be the worst of the worst, and lead to extreme evil against the human race. It really should be limited in use to our military and Science. And even then its uses should be regulated. It should not be legal for possession or use in normal society. And the penalty for doing so should be about as severe as being found with a truck full of Heroine. The price we pay for the good that it can do is the bad that it can do. And I think that price is going to be far too high. If we die spiritually then we have no more purpose.
Not sure about that specific graph—but I have seen similar graphs.
By 2027 the major AIs should be able to easily outwit any human handlers.
I would expect the first shocking “breakaway incidents” from supposedly secure labs in 2026.
People forget that this could happen anywhere—here in the US but also China, India, Dubai etc etc.
Any breakout is equally disastrous for the entire world.
What is some “people’s truth”? There is truth and there are lies. The fact the some people believe and tell lies does not make it a truth even their own. Believing a lie doesn’t make it true.
Again, AI doesn’t say anything. It repeats what it has been taught or programmed or coded. To say that AI speaks is anthropomorphism. Sure it is a commonly used heuristic that keeps us from saying “AI has returned a result in speech or written form that is based on search results, found on the World Wide Web, edited by an algorithm written by a human with all the same biases and flaws as all humans.”
Anthromorphism is when humans assign human characteristics to non-human things. AI cannot engage in this because it can only respond based on what humans tell it to say. It is incapable of doing anything on its own. It does not have agency, free will, morals, emotions, or a soul. It does not intelligence or self awareness. It will never be greater than its creator.
Your drug analogy is a good one.
How is the war on heroin going anyway?
Your post mixes and matches a bunch of concepts that are just not relevant to AI.
AI will not have human intelligence or human consciousness.
These new language models are a new form of life with its own rules.
They will not be our rules.
Tigers don’t have human consciousness but they are very dangerous in the wild.
That is a better way to think of AI.
Are you suggesting that laws are worthless. Would it better if I said child porn instead. Would you have the same response?
AI is/will be qualitatively and quantitatively different from anything we have ever seen before.
It will blow through laws restricting it in nanoseconds.
It is like throwing spears at tanks.
There is nothing wrong with spears. They do the job they were designed to do but cannot do a job they were not designed to do.
I don’t think you get it. But I can tell you this. I personally believe that it very likely that AI is the “Beast” that people will worship according the bible. “For it is a mans number” “No one will be able to buy or sell without the mark” and other reasons.
If you want to stop AI you will have to get a lot more clever than laws.
Surely you jest “a new life form”.
Man now sits in the heavens with God.
“With its own rules”
Are you utterly unfamiliar with how AI is made?
Life comes in many forms.
There is no limit to creation.
Some folks are going to have to learn that the hard way.
Believe me, I fully understand the inherent risks in this type of technology, and I have been struggling with it for several years before arriving at the point that it is here whether we want it to be or not.
Albert Einstein (who was a Leftist Pacifist) and was famously, after the fact, against the development of nuclear weapons wrote a letter in 1939 to Franklin Roosevelt saying the he thought it was important that the United States pursue this technology.
He made this recommendation on the knowledge that Nazi Germany had seized the Czechoslovakian uranium mines and prohibited export of uranium. (at the time known reserves were in Czechoslovakia, Congo, and Canada)
We are faced with much the same problem. This Pandora’s box is already open, as was the nuclear genie in 1939 when the writing was on the wall even for the Leftist Einstein.
We must either pursue it and make available the best and freest AI we can obtain, or surrender that field to the likes of the AI generated by a tyrannical, communist power like China.
It is going to come one way or another, with our participation, or without it. If we allow AI developed and distributed by Communist China to be the solution, that is not going to end well.
I understand and share your concerns, which I have been dwelling on for many years now, but regulation, even at a federal level, never mind a state level, is going to be fruitless.
Look at how difficult it is to regulate the proliferation of nuclear weapons. That is aided only by the fact that there are certain protected technologies, equipment, and materials without with the development of enriched isotopes cannot be obtained without drawing scrutiny.
There is no such equivalent in the AI field. Even the advanced graphic chips/cards made by the likes of nVidia are nowhere near the level of something an enemy cannot construct themselves and utilize eventually instead of having to purchase them from other countries such as the United States.
My opposition is not to regulation per se, even if I do feel it will be fruitless in the end, my opposition is to give states free reign to regulate, especially states with someone like Senator Markey involved.
As an accurate indicator of the potential political bastardization at all levels of anything, Markey’s interest in regulating something is a red flag to me. And that is not a knee-jerk reaction simply because he is a flaming Leftist-Statist. It is because of all he has done in the past.
#2 I saw a video at the link below showing a huge 2 million sq/ft data center building being built near a house in Georgia. The lights at night from that building light up the house thru the trees they had for screening. The home owners had bought the house prior to the building wanting to be out in the country away from things like this. Now they are worried if the can even sell the home.
I Live 400 Yards From Mark Zuckerberg’s Massive Data Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGjj7wDYaiI
Thanks for saying so. I get more out of this site than I put in, that is for sure.
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