ChatGPT and the AI Apocalypse
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ChatGPT and the AI Apocalypse
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#2Yesterday, I got commented x86_64_avx assembly code instead of that horrible c++ code for a vectorized quicksort for numbers.
(Somebody did that for me, as access to chatgpt is hostile to noscript/basic (x)html browsers).
It seems "it" is kind of good at sketching assembly from high level languages.
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#3This is mostly my point of view as well. With all the talk of AGI, the immediate threat is real and it is primitive AI. I suspect that primitive AI might becomes so self destructive to society that we never reach AGI.
We are already approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth. This is going to be very destabilizing to society.
Another in depth view of the possible issues that may arrive even before AGI that I recently published. https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
Re: ChatGPT and the AI Apocalypse
#4This is mostly my point of view as well. With all the talk of AGI, the immediate threat is real and it is primitive AI. I suspect that primitive AI might becomes so self destructive to society that we never reach AGI. We are already approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth. This is going to be very destabilizing to society. Another in depth view of the possible issues that may arrive even before…
> We are already approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth
This is also what terrifies me. You'll never be able to trust any digital medium again.
- a chat with your uncle could've been convincingly trained using his hacked emails
- someone calling you on the phone with a familiar voice could be using AI voice imitation
- any photo or video could be deepfaked, leading to the possibility of everyone's most hated political figure (on both sides) being 100% guilty of ____ (whatever their opponent wants)
LinkedIn is already teeming with convincing AI-generated faces that would defy facial recognition because they're novel. The only way I can tell they're fake is that the backgrounds are blurry and the CV doesn't make sense (for example, going to community college in Colorado and then working for Goldman Sachs).
Dating apps aren't too bad because the scammers use recognizable patterns, but they could easily get worse.
This technology will kill all digital information exchange.
Re: ChatGPT and the AI Apocalypse
#5This is mostly my point of view as well. With all the talk of AGI, the immediate threat is real and it is primitive AI. I suspect that primitive AI might becomes so self destructive to society that we never reach AGI. We are already approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth. This is going to be very destabilizing to society. Another in depth view of the possible issues that may arrive even before…
ChatGPT is a boon to surveillance and censorship. By controlling chatGPT you get access to what arguments sway the user, and likely in the near future the ability to scrub/remove information.
On the other hand, the models are small enough to ship around - you could run chatgpt on a moderately powerful server if performance wasn’t a concern. I suspect we’ll see a huge number of bit torrents for “trusted” llms
Re: ChatGPT and the AI Apocalypse
#6This is mostly my point of view as well. With all the talk of AGI, the immediate threat is real and it is primitive AI. I suspect that primitive AI might becomes so self destructive to society that we never reach AGI. We are already approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth. This is going to be very destabilizing to society. Another in depth view of the possible issues that may arrive even before…
> approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth
Malicious groups spreading misinformation to destabilize society has been a thing since at least the ancient Greeks. Unverifiable reality has been the topic of religious debate for centuries as well. The recent language models are cool but they are not better at lying than humans.
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#7I really think the fact that these chatbots have been made public and are being given such high-profile treatment is a really positive thing for AI safety. The public results thus far have created some real skepticism of AI, which is one of the best safeguards we can have. If ChatGPT was 98% accurate and Bing didn't threaten users, people might just readily embrace it and not notice inaccuracies that would lead to serious problems. Instead, we're starting from a place of societal distrust, which is probably more helpful in preventing rogue AI than a lot of technical solutions would be.
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#8This is mostly my point of view as well. With all the talk of AGI, the immediate threat is real and it is primitive AI. I suspect that primitive AI might becomes so self destructive to society that we never reach AGI. We are already approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth. This is going to be very destabilizing to society. Another in depth view of the possible issues that may arrive even before…
> approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth Malicious groups spreading misinformation to destabilize society has been a thing since at least the ancient Greeks. Unverifiable reality has been the topic of religious debate for centuries as well. The recent language models are cool but they are not better at lying than humans.
They have never such power to do so convincingly with such little effort. Yes, it has always been a problem, but no where close to the extent it is about to become.
Re: ChatGPT and the AI Apocalypse
#9This is mostly my point of view as well. With all the talk of AGI, the immediate threat is real and it is primitive AI. I suspect that primitive AI might becomes so self destructive to society that we never reach AGI. We are already approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth. This is going to be very destabilizing to society. Another in depth view of the possible issues that may arrive even before…
> the immediate threat is real and it is primitive AI
Even before AI, humanity was already addicted to technology, then the Internet and now also pretty much any screen.
I don’t think we will ever get to AGI as one entity/ego. But in some ways we could call AGI the sort of hive mind produced by the huge globally distributed and interconnected interactions of humans with their technology.
As a species, we’ve become a sort of simbiosis with our tech, and this happened way before computers.
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#10This is mostly my point of view as well. With all the talk of AGI, the immediate threat is real and it is primitive AI. I suspect that primitive AI might becomes so self destructive to society that we never reach AGI. We are already approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth. This is going to be very destabilizing to society. Another in depth view of the possible issues that may arrive even before…
> We are already approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth This is also what terrifies me. You'll never be able to trust any digital medium again. - a chat with your uncle could've been convincingly trained using his hacked emails - someone calling you on the phone with a familiar voice could be using AI voice imitation - any photo or video could be deepfaked, leading to the possibility of everyon…
It is exceedingly disturbing. I have no answers. The potential solutions will probably be even more disturbing. I can imagine there will be proposals for everyone having some cryptographic ID to use the internet so all data creation can be tracked to an individual. The end of privacy and freedom.