The scariest thing about innovation is the inability of a human mob to distinguish between lateral movement and intent.
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Why AI is still dumb and not scary at all (pt. 1)
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#12A gun is not smart or magical but is nevertheless a powerful tool that can be scary depending on who is holding it. Accordingly, I worry less about my occupation and more about the moral character of those wielding it. Further i worry about "smart" people who have not been acquainted with the dark side of human nature facilitating bad actors.
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#13AI is more scary because it is so dumb.
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#14AI doesn’t exist. large language models are what they are, language models.
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#15This is a frustrating piece on many levels, but mostly because it doesn't really scratch the surface of what is worrisome about AI. It sets up straw men and knocks them down, but not much else.
It seems to boil down to:
1. LLMs aren't actually "learning" the way humans do so we shouldn't be worried
2. LLMs don't actually "understand" anything so we shouldn't be worried
3. Technology has always been advancing and we've always been freaking out about that, so we shouldn't be worried
4. If your job is automate-able, it probably should be eliminated anyway
What's scary is not that these models are smarter than us, but that we are dumb enough to deploy them in critical contexts and trust the output they generate.
What's scary isn't that these models are so good they'll replace us, but that despite how limited they are, someone will make the decision to replace humans anyway.
What's scary isn't that LLMs will displace good developers, but that LLMs put the power of development in the hands of people who have no idea what they're wielding.
> Sure, with a millions upon millions of training examples, of course you can mimic intelligence. If you already know what’s going to be on the test, common patterns for answers in the test, or even the answer key itself, then are you really intelligent? OR are you just regurgitating information from billions of past tests?
How different are humans from this description in actuality? What are we if not the results of a process that has been optimized by millions upon millions of iterations over long periods of time?
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#17A gun is not smart or magical but is nevertheless a powerful tool that can be scary depending on who is holding it. Accordingly, I worry less about my occupation and more about the moral character of those wielding it. Further i worry about "smart" people who have not been acquainted with the dark side of human nature facilitating bad actors.
Statistically speaking though if you leave guns lying around everywhere or introduce guns as a service for only $10/month and tell everyone that guns will solve all your problems, then you’re going to end up with fuckwits with guns.
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#18"Change is inevitable. You can’t stop the railroad as they used to say. It’s going to kill some jobs but not all of them."
I personally don't worry about jobs. AI is progressing very fast (there are a lof of smart folks working on it, there are a ton of money invested and there's a lot of demand from businesses, governments and individuals). Human inteligence stays the same. I think it's likely that sometime soon AI models will become more inteligent than an average human. And then more inteligent than the smartest human. And then more inteligent than the whole human race combined.
Let's say some worms 600 million years ago could think. And they consider should they kill all mutants and stay forever the pinnacle of evolution as they are or allow some of them to evolve into fish, and then mammals and eventually inteligent humans. I think we are in a position like this - we are currently the pinacle of "creation" in the known universe - do we want to stay this way - by blocking AGI progress, or do we want to allow minds far greater than us to evolve from current LLMs at the cost of probable human extinction eventually.
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#20I’m pretty sure you couldn’t trust me to multiply 20-digit numbers either.