My friends and I do not think AI is dangerous at all
Posted on 05/01/2023 12:05:54 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the A.I. systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key to their future.
On Monday, however, he officially joined a growing chorus of critics who say those companies are racing toward danger with their aggressive campaign to create products based on generative artificial intelligence, the technology that powers popular chatbots like ChatGPT.
Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of A.I. A part of him, he said, now regrets his life’s work.
The post ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead appeared first on New York Times.
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we will have companies being 100% run by AI within mere years from now.
your boss is a computer. . .
doesn't take much imagination to understand how quickly we, socially, become 'unable to unplug' the machine..
10 years ago:
Tech Mogul: Hey Doc, what’s taking so long to get the AI stuff up and working?
Dr. Hinton: We’re almost there, just a bit more tweaking.
Present day:
Tech Mogul: Hey Doc, what’s taking so long to get the AI stuff up and working?
Dr. Hinton: We’re almost there, just a bit more tweaking.
Tech Mogul: You said that 10 years ago!
Dr Hinton: Give me a break, this stuff has a mind all its own!
Since satan is not omnipresent, he can use this to become omnipresent.
Whatever the elites think they can do—A.I. can do better, much much better.
This reminds of the Communist revolution. The idealistic leftists are the first ones sent to the firing squad.
A.I. will be sending the elites to the same fate.
(How would that be done? Planting false evidence of heinous crimes—or even real ones—would be trivial for a reasonably competent and motivated A.I.)
When/Where exactly did your example take place?
I don’t think that many who began in ‘machine intelligence’ decades ago could see how exponentially it would progress.
Again, I appreciate anyone who stands for putting on the brakes for awhile, until we fully realize what we may actually be facing and can create safeguards against the dangers.
There’s not a lot of details about the experiment, including the text prompts used to command the chatbot program or if it had help from any human researchers
This sentence pretty much blows the lid off any pretense of the legitimacy of the “experiment.”
And the world has plenty of bad actors.
Dr. Geoffrey Hinton was replaced at Google by Dr. A.I.
I agree. The machine was prompted, and didn’t do this on its own ‘volition’ (if a machine can be said to have such).
But that just shows that current AI can be prompted to do whatever an operator wants to try.
An artificial intelligence will need human hands in order to act in the world. And certain humans will willingly serve it, in exchange for power and wealth, just like our current human power elites have plenty of human minions serving them.
A superior intelligence would have the power to predict human behavior, and the ability to influence humans to do its bidding. Someone serving AI would have access to information about how the stock market will go, and how best to invest. He would become wealthy.
Do not discount the idea that an intelligence without physical presence cannot have great influence in this world. What is Satan, if not that?
Omnipresent Via media and internet anyway. What I find interesting is Revelation says that the image of the Beast gets tossed directly into the lake of Fire along with the False Prophet and the Beast. It doesn’t say it is destroyed by an angry thunderbolt or shattered into a million pieces by one wink from the face of Jesus. No, this thing gets tossed like a condemned demon or lost soul directly into the lake of Fire. The False Prophet gives power to the image so that it speaks and says blasphemous things. Perhaps the image is sentient by means of Satan or a demon, thus it gets treated like one.
lol sure
Thank you for your insightful perspective.
‘If you read one thing about AI this week, let it be Google’s leaked doc
“We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”’
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654197268742914048
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
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