Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better
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#2This is basically the tech CEO's version of the book of revelations: "AI will soon come and make everything right with the world, help us and you will be rewarded with a Millennium of bliss in It's presence".
I won't comment on the plausibility of what is being said, but regardless, one should beware this type of reasoning. Any action can be justified, if it means bringing about an infinite good.
Relevant read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularitarianism
Re: Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better
#3Miquella the kind, pure and radiant, he wields love to shrive clean the hearts of men. There is nothing more terrifying.
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#4One of the sad things about tech is that nobody really looks at history.
The same kinds of essays were written about trains, planes and nuclear power.
Before lindbergh went off the deepend, he was convinced that "airmen" were gentlemen and could sort out the world's ills.
The essay contains a lot of coulds, but doesn't touch on the base problem: human nature.
AI will be used to make things cheaper. That is, lots of job losses. must of us are up for the chop if/when competent AI agents become possible.
Loads of service jobs too, along with a load of manual jobs when suitable large models are successfully applied to robotics (see ECCV for some idea of the progress for machine perception.)
But those profits will not be shared. Human productivity has exploded in the last 120 years, yet we are working longer hours for less pay.
Well AI is going to make that worse. It'll cause huge unrest (see luddite riots, peterloo, the birth of unionism in the USA, plus many more)
This brings us to the next thing that AI will be applied to: Murdering people.
Andril is already marrying basic machine perception with cheap drones and explosives. its not going to take long to get to personalised explosive drones.
AI isn't the problem, we are.
The sooner we realise that its not a technical problem to be solved, but a human one, we might stand a chance.
But looking at the emotionally stunted, empathy vacuums that control either policy or purse strings, I think it'll take a catastrophe to change course.
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#5The more recent and consistent rule of technological development, “ For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.”
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#6I think Dario is trying to raise a new round because OpenAI has done and will continue to do so, nevertheless, the essay provides for some really great reading and even if the fraction comes true, it'll be wonderful.
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#7One of the sad things about tech is that nobody really looks at history. The same kinds of essays were written about trains, planes and nuclear power. Before lindbergh went off the deepend, he was convinced that "airmen" were gentlemen and could sort out the world's ills. The essay contains a lot of coulds, but doesn't touch on the base problem: human nature. AI will be used to make things cheaper. That is, lots of j…
3 links above this one is https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/08/exoskeleton...
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#8Social media could have transformed the world for the better, and we can be forgiven for not having foreseen how it would eventually be used against us. It would be stupidity to fall for the same thing again.
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#9One of the sad things about tech is that nobody really looks at history. The same kinds of essays were written about trains, planes and nuclear power. Before lindbergh went off the deepend, he was convinced that "airmen" were gentlemen and could sort out the world's ills. The essay contains a lot of coulds, but doesn't touch on the base problem: human nature. AI will be used to make things cheaper. That is, lots of j…
We are entering a dystopia and people are still writing these wonderful essays about how AI will help us.
Microtargeted psychometrics (Cambridge Analytica, AggregateIQ) have already made politics in the West an unending barrage of information warfare. Now we'll have millions of autonomous agents. At some point soon in the future, our entire feed will be AI content or upvoted by AI or AI manipulating the algorithm.
It's like you said - this essay reads like peak AI. We will never have as much hope and optimism about the next 20 years as we seem to have now.
Reminds me of a graffiti I saw in London, while the city's cost of living was exploding and making the place unaffordable to anyone but a few:
"We live in a Utopia. It's just not ours."
Re: Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better
#10The more recent and consistent rule of technological development, “ For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.”
blindingly true.