Reminds me of an Asimov short story where the world's whole economy was managed by four supercomputers [0].
Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is everyone bringing examples that are totally explained by how the tokenizer works. There is no intelligence it's Markov chains on crack.
Intelligence isn't really the interesting part. People are excited because we now have tools that interact well with ordinary human expression.
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#43"Most AI researchers think good outcomes are more likely. This seems just blind faith, though" Or, you know, they might actually know something about the subject? On a similar note, most physicists don't think particle colliders will cause mini black holes which will swallow the Earth, but the fear gets repeated by non-physicists.
minor nitpick, it's not that we don't believe it makes mini black holes, it's that we're fairly extremely sure those black holes wouldn't interact with anything in the minor "time" (if you can even call it that) which they exist.
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#45Today I got a peek into the future. I asked ChatGPT to be the brain for a simple thermostat. I typed the following: "Imagine you are a thermostat for a house HVAC system. The commands you can use to control the HVAC are "HEAT ON", "HEAT OFF", "AC ON", and "AC OFF". I will tell you the temperature and my preferred temperature and you will command the HVAC system. Ready?" ChatGPT happily obliged. I used plain text to t…
Forget these awful programming languages that nerds used for so long, the future is here and it is Plain English.
AI overriding the "program" instead of crashing or just doing nothing it's going to lead to some hilarious situations, or terrifying. You could also use as an interface to translate voice -> text -> command. Perhaps facilitating the development of the API between the first two where the LLM helps to "correct" any badly captured noise in the audio-to-text script.
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#46If this is written in earnest, it's absolute drivel.
If this is satire, then it's lacking enough humor to make that readily apparent.
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#47If AI was capable of building physical things and carrying out physical tasks in the real world, no one would probably complain. But when AI decides to speak and create artwork, people lose their minds.
Because our miracle was for robots to do tedious tasks and humans enjoy creative work. But it turns out that the future will be the opposite.
If humans are to regain their creative advantages over AI, we will require far better interfaces.
Truth is a human mind is more powerful than an AI, consider how many images you could create in a second and with far greater accuracy and detail than an AI could. But humans have no way to “output” these images the way an AI can except to manually draw them out, which is a very slow process. The images though certainly exist in the mind.
If we had some sort of brain-to-machine interface, that could allow us to dump images at fast rates onto a screen, then human art could see a sort of high tech renaissance. More humans could be artists, with nothing more than the power of their thoughts. No art skills required. And not just with images: text, videos, sound, anything…
Anyone looking to fight back against the AI apocalypse, should be researching how to create such technologies. It is time for humans to become more than human.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the word "most" is relevant. You can find people with doctorates in technical fields who believe in a Flat Earth or that the Earth was created in 4004 BC. They just aren't most of them.
Now you're moving the goalposts
The parent comment did not move the goalposts in any way -- it simply pointed out that having a PhD is not enough to prove that the author is not a crank, because a lot of other people with PhDs are also cranks.
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#49"Most AI researchers think good outcomes are more likely. This seems just blind faith, though" Or, you know, they might actually know something about the subject? On a similar note, most physicists don't think particle colliders will cause mini black holes which will swallow the Earth, but the fear gets repeated by non-physicists.
Did you miss this paragraph from the same page? > I am not a Luddite. I have been wildly enthusiastic about science, technology, and intellectual and material progress since I was a kid. I have a PhD in artificial intelligence, and I find the current breakthroughs fascinating.
This is a great example of a fallacious appeal to authority -- both from the author, and from you.
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#50I realize this may be satire but it is deeply relatable: > AI will make critical decisions that we cannot understand. Am I the only one that experiences this? For example, you know the way, the road signs are telling you that you are on the right route, but your map application tells you to go another way, and you do it because you assume it is smarter or has more information than you. You are analyzing a chess posit…
> For example, you know the way, the road signs are telling you that you are on the right route, but your map application tells you to go another way, and you do it because you assume it is smarter or has more information than you.
Yet here we are with Google Maps still sending me into the opposite way of a one way street...