Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
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Re: Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
#2Despite the hyperbolic title, the article outlines pretty clearly the outcomes of the OpenAI debacle and where things are headed. "Mission-oriented" AI research is dead; it's just another tech race by the big boys now.
Re: Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
#3Right now, at worse, AI will have a similar impact as social media. It's definitely worth thinking about the potential harm it could cause to the different industries, but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature. We don't have any cognitive architecture that will reach self-awareness and become an unstoppable bad actor. This entire ordeal more or less proved that people are a little too paranoid.
Re: Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
#4Right now, at worse, AI will have a similar impact as social media. It's definitely worth thinking about the potential harm it could cause to the different industries, but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature. We don't have any cognitive architecture that will reach self-awareness and become an unstoppable bad actor. This entire ordeal more or less proved that people are a little too paranoid.
We don't have a dangerous AI yet, but because we are talking about an existential risk, yes we do want to start thinking about it now.
AI does not have to be alive or truly conscious or anything to be dangerous. It just needs to be very effective at problem solving and have someone take the guardrails off and tell it to act in a self-interested way. Especially without humans in the loop.
It seems likely that the systems will continue to get much faster and more robust in terms of problem solving. It is easy to anticipate the possibility within just a few years of agent swarms being connected to pretty much everything (as directed by their human owners), and no human being able to compete. This will be a precarious position.
Re: Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
#5LLMs in theory can absorb a stream of integers into a pattern of weighted nodes.
Every program written is vulnerable of being generalized into an LLM pattern.
The outputs of AI and the predictive abilities, are not scary.
The input capacity of AI will eventually eat every programmer's lunch and their programs too.
The existential risk is mapping out computer programming as an entire field and locking it away.
Re: Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
#6Right now, at worse, AI will have a similar impact as social media. It's definitely worth thinking about the potential harm it could cause to the different industries, but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature. We don't have any cognitive architecture that will reach self-awareness and become an unstoppable bad actor. This entire ordeal more or less proved that people are a little too paranoid.
All the top brass domain experts of these systems, like 95% besides Yann LeCunn, believe it's an existential risk. Nothing has "proved that people are a little too paranoid." Why people listen to HN prognosticators over Hinton, Bengio, Sutskever, Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, etc. is beyond me.
Re: Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
#7Right now, at worse, AI will have a similar impact as social media. It's definitely worth thinking about the potential harm it could cause to the different industries, but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature. We don't have any cognitive architecture that will reach self-awareness and become an unstoppable bad actor. This entire ordeal more or less proved that people are a little too paranoid.
> but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature
Even ignoring what the technology can do, it feels me with dread that we basically have IMHO some of the worst possible people leading the charge - people who are greedy, slimy, and ruthless; who only care about money. Such a bad timeline we are in.
Re: Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
#8Right now, at worse, AI will have a similar impact as social media. It's definitely worth thinking about the potential harm it could cause to the different industries, but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature. We don't have any cognitive architecture that will reach self-awareness and become an unstoppable bad actor. This entire ordeal more or less proved that people are a little too paranoid.
> but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature Even ignoring what the technology can do, it feels me with dread that we basically have IMHO some of the worst possible people leading the charge - people who are greedy, slimy, and ruthless; who only care about money. Such a bad timeline we are in.
Capitalism at its finest. That's what the USA is all about.
Re: Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
#9Right now, at worse, AI will have a similar impact as social media. It's definitely worth thinking about the potential harm it could cause to the different industries, but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature. We don't have any cognitive architecture that will reach self-awareness and become an unstoppable bad actor. This entire ordeal more or less proved that people are a little too paranoid.
We don't have a dangerous AI yet, but because we are talking about an existential risk, yes we do want to start thinking about it now. AI does not have to be alive or truly conscious or anything to be dangerous. It just needs to be very effective at problem solving and have someone take the guardrails off and tell it to act in a self-interested way. Especially without humans in the loop. It seems likely that the syst…
But it can't act in self interest way bc of hardware&phisical limitations. I mean what can it do worst case? We have both systems to prevent abuse for critical things & resources to power such an ai are limited too(hardware, energy, network connection). It can't even replicate to create self powered robots like in matrix fantasy bc we don't even have such fully automated production. So about what risks are we talikng here? Imo worst case it can mess up with stock market...
Re: Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
#10Right now, at worse, AI will have a similar impact as social media. It's definitely worth thinking about the potential harm it could cause to the different industries, but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature. We don't have any cognitive architecture that will reach self-awareness and become an unstoppable bad actor. This entire ordeal more or less proved that people are a little too paranoid.
> but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature Even ignoring what the technology can do, it feels me with dread that we basically have IMHO some of the worst possible people leading the charge - people who are greedy, slimy, and ruthless; who only care about money. Such a bad timeline we are in.
> the worst possible people leading the charge - people who are greedy, slimy, and ruthless; who only care about money.
And who have luxury bunkers to move to in NZ or wherever for if/when it all goes wrong.