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Being terrified doesn’t serve much purpose at this point. We are going too fast. Have been for years. This is just the first clear indication. Braking is fatal, but some seem pretty hell-bent. Deceleration is complicated, and it seems highly unlikely that there would be sufficient consensus for true deceleration. Local deceleration is simply waiting for the acceleration occurring somewhere else to overcome your effor…
I disagree. ChatGPT is a clear turning point. We have not been going too fast before, at least not outside LLMs. Singularity is a belief system, it has very little to do with AI. edit: I also think if we would ever get to a point where AI gets close to a point of possibly getting out of control as you imply it would simply be banned in the US/Canada/EU/Australia. Furthermore Latin America and Africa could and would b…
It will use every tool you give it to reach the goal you give him. It will try forever if needed.
I bet state actor are already plugging in tooling to register social account and automate credible propaganda. Maybe not with gpt itself, but privately hosted fine tuned models.
This can win elections.
You can plug wordpress and build infinite blogs with infinite post with the unique scope of building mass around a topic.
This can alter Wikipedia, many people don't ever check sources and take it at face value.
You can not only build fake research paper, but fake the whole research team and their whole interactions with the community and investor.
This can fraud millions.
Tools enable this today.