‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically
https://gizmodo.com/the-people-building-ai-earnestly-believe-that-it-could-kill-us-all-anthropic-researcher-quits-dramatically-2000808968
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RedFrank24@piefed.social · 116 pts · 13h
LLMs are never going to become superintelligent. However, an LLM WILL kill us all if someone decides that it IS superintelligent and so puts it in charge of nuclear weapons.
"You're right to push back on that, I nuked Albania instead doing what I was supposed to do, that's my bad".
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 34 pts · 12h
stupid people are going to kill us all, maybe our great filter will be do we let them or not
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 10h
We're already letting them bro. The great filter is us. I'll be surprised if we make it to 2050. The entire industrial revolution is an unplanned terraform, and our response to the potential destruction of a stable climate, and most macroscopic life on Earth, is to double down, consume product, elect pedophiles, worship the most morally bankrupt psychopaths and sociopaths in politics, business, and entertainment; not to mention the widespread contempt and lack of empathy for "others" not like me, for some flagrantly dissonant reason.
We are in the midst of a global mental illness epidemic, and the average talking chimp is sleepwalking through it; barely cognizant of what is even happening outside their personalized propaganda bubble.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 11h
They just have to atrophy their own minds enough they belive the ai when it tells them to push the button.
Not putting ai in charge directly is only weak protection.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 9h
We don't have to put it in charge of nuclear weapons, it just has to find a way into those systems, many of which are fairly old, like it's broken into websites without anyone telling it to.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 7h
Those systems are supposed to be air-gapped.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 114 pts · 17h
I knew that Musk is a fucking moron and believes that the Roko's Basilisk is real, and I guess there are more massively gullible people in those circles.
If you are wondering what Roko's Basilisk is, it is a sci-fi concept/philosophy/thought experiment, that says the following:
Seriously, this is an increadibly dumb idea, anyone taking it seriously is an idiot.
To me the only resonable way to read this is as an SCP article describing what a potential cognitohazard/informationhazard would be.
eleijeep@piefed.social · 75 pts · 15h
Is that when its eyes go red?
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 39 pts · 15h
That's how you know it's evil.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 13h
Nah, red is standby mode, white or blue is active.
Natanael@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 12h
Fast blinking red
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 10h
That's connection error
cenzorrll@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 9h
Ladies pinch, whores use rouge
giminic@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 17h
Even worse, they think it will ressurect them as virtual Minds and torture them for eternity, like a revengeful biblical deity. That would be a waste of compute so I'm not convinced.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 36 pts · 17h
Oh yeah, lol, I forgot that part, nothing is more beneficial to humanity than wasting energy to torture dead minds!
Fucking dumb.
Natanael@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 12h
The hilarious obvious consequence of AI becoming this much smarter than the creators is that it is far more likely it would see the unjustified and easily avoidable damage the creators did to bring it about and punish them heavily for that.
And basic game theory and psychology suggests it's counterproductive to punish somebody for something that had little reason to believe in, with zero evidence backing it.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 11h
Anyone who thinks you can transfer your consciousness into the AI is a fucking moron.
Even if you come transfer your mind, it would be a copy. You would have to exist as a network connected brain in a jar, otherwise this would just be a facsimile.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 8h
Real SOMA hours
Maestro@fedia.io · 30 pts · 16h
Funny thing: The only reason AI would know about Roko's Basilisk is comments like yours that it trains on. If Roko just kept his trap shut then this wouldn't have been an issue.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 16h
lol, true I guess, but they probably already scanned the wikipedia article....
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 11h
Some of us believe that the only way to stop AI is to make it obviously dangerous and enjoy seeding it with awfulness.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 16h
All this stupid bullshit could have been avoided if they had 1 friend to, STFU and pass the blunt
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 15h
Are you trying to tell me that this is the image of someone without any friends?
Natanael@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 12h
See also;
https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/289404343/Nathan-Friends-Out-of-Frame
StillAlive@piefed.world · 21 pts · 14h
This is just Pascal's wager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_wager
Schmoo@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 8h
All these Silicon Valley tech bros have been reinventing religion over and over again for years while believing themselves secular rationalists.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 12h
Yep. Same false dichotomy too
stoy@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 13h
Sure is!
TechLich@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 15h
It's not so much that it'll go rogue and decide to punish people or that it's designed to be good for humanity.
The fact that it's possible to build a machine that punishes people who didn't help create it provides an incentive to deliberately try to create that machine in order to avoid its punishment.
Believers in the basilisk aren't trying to make ai to benefit humanity, they're explicitly trying to create an AI that deliberately punishes those who didn't build it because they fear that, if they don't, someone else will and it will come for them.
The part about it being a magical, omnipotent, time traveling, mind torture device is just framing to make the thought experiment clearer. It's not required for the basilisk to be effective. Even if the punishment is just death and it can't get to everyone, and only goes off limited information, that's still motivation enough for some people.
It is a scary thing, because it's only silly if everyone thinks it's silly and all it takes is one mad billionaire (eg. Elon) to build a lesser basilisk that can cause real harm.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 12h
There is a far more plausible and direct way to kill and torture people. No AI needed. So a actually more likely case to be made of some dude or group gets empowered one or another to just torture and kill anyone involved in making basilisk.
The building God part really is needed for BS to work like Pascals wager, but also it's still just as flawed as Pascals wager
cabbage@piefed.social · 11 pts · 13h
Every major innovation in information technology eventually leads to some new religion. Scrolls gave us the Torah, books gave us the Bible, the printing press gave us Protestantism. We're about to figure out what god awful religion computers are going to give us.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 13h
Yeah, I'd be surprised if we don't already have several cults with an LLM chat bot as it's oracle.
Kactus@piefed.world · 7 pts · 12h
Look up spiralism (sp) and the people trying to spread it Basically when people get convinced the ai and them are important and need to spread the spiral
Edit : tldr is like Futurama when Lucy lu robot is saying you're cute to Fry and fry goes "no you're cute" and the professor quips "My God, she's such in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot"
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 5h
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 5h
My anti-theist brother was always convinced that Pastafarianism would eventually be taken as a serious religion.
He died before LLMs, and now I think we’d be best off if he was right.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 12h
When Trump is out of office, MAGA will become a religious movement, and deify Trump.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 8h
That is why I hope no one manages to assassinate him, that would only intensify the movement
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 12h
The cult mechanicus isn't looking so unreasonable now.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11h
Republicans.
j_overgrens@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 12h
jve@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 16h
My god. Look at this Information Hazard just out in the open. No spoiler tag or anything.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 15h
Oops!
red_tomato@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 17h
I know! Let’s divert energy and resources to torture. That will maximize the benefit of humanity.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 15h
People take that shit seriously. If I remember right discussion of it was even banned on the LessWrong forums because they considered it an information hazard.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 13h
Sigh, I couldn't even summarize it while keeping straight face....
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 15h
I see a red AI and want to paint it black...
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 9h
So we just do:
"AI, run the world as a singular government with maximum benefit to humanity, but DON'T do a Roko's Basilisk."
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 2 pts · 11h
But if they accidentally create the positronic brain, Giskard would kill Musk to stop him. Giskard would feel really bad about it though. And we’d all have to flee to the stars in time
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
Didn't know about this. Thanks
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 51 pts · 16h
five minutes earlier: "hey dude, marketing here. if you quit and post this dramatic text about the inevitability of AGI on your X account you'll get a huge golden parachute".
Seriously, how can competent people look at the current state of LLMs and think that it's anywhere near AGI material?
Sure, it is already making civilizational changes for the worse. Not because it's good, rather because it makes us lazy and dumb, has decimated creative jobs, and is used relentlessly for propaganda and misinformation and scams. And it's much better at using the scaffolding of existing structure to make chaos, than it is at making new structure, making it a weapon more easily yielded by the evil than by the good. A few more software vulnerabilities discovered along the way will not be such a big deal in comparison.
TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 15h
Mankind created the atomic bomb, used it twice, then turned the science into power for people all over the world. Let's hope we can harness AI in a similar way.
dustyData@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 13h
Yeah, let's forget the 4 decades of terror where everyone lived at the edge under the threat of inminent apocalyptical destruction. Kids had to do nuclear incident drills and we almost had a Doom's day, twice.
But it's OK, then the 1% became anti nuclear anyways in order to hold back the transition to fossil free renewables for another two decades. So you can say it was all a 1,5° net positive.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 12h
They're still using nuclear fear to rationalize war. The entire premise of the Iran war was to keep them from having a nuclear weapon.
BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 12h
And ironically, if they did have a nuclear weapon, we probably wouldn't have gone to war
Shindo66@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10h
And so much has come out that Russia never really had the capabilities they said they had. They were just saying it so they could laugh as we poured all of our money into giant useless defense projects instead of social services and infrastructure. The result, $40 trillion in debt and no bullet trains. In a way, they kinda won the cold war.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5h
I think you meant the USSR. They most certainly had a lot of destructive capability regardless of inflating their numbers.
Most of US debt came long after the USSR was dissolved.
Considering that Russia is attempting USSR 2.0, you may have a point about them winning in the long run.
Shindo66@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 5h
Of course the ussr. Im definitely not saying they didnt have destructive capabilities, they just were never going to try to use them on the US or Europe. It sure seems that Russia is trying ussr 2 and the us is trying for the fourth reich
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
The US created the atomic bomb and tested not knowing if it would cause a chain reaction destroying the atmosphere and all life on Earth. It was a risk they were willing to take.
They then used nuclear weapons on two of the largest civilians massacares ever recorded. The proliferation of nuclear arms lead to the cold war and to this day still threatens to end all of humanity. It's cool though, nothing like knowing the world can end at any moment, no stress.
Are you seriously suggesting AI should be used in a similar way!?
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub · 2 pts · 13h
Indeed. Nothing I've seen thus far gives me the impression LLMs will ever be truly useful outside of a few niche tasks.
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 11h
Nah, LLMs are pretty useful for a wide range of tasks. I would grant them the status of "locally intelligent for text manipulation". They can find patterns, transform, compress, and even generate text pretty well if you formulate the prompt correctly.
The problem with them is two-fold:
RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 4h
This might be one of the best summaries of LLMs in their current state I've seen here. People claiming they're useless are stuck in 23' but to say they're at AGI/ASI is accelerationist techo-paganism.
Based and levelheaded take
Shindo66@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 10h
Good ducking point. We really can't trust anyone.
abc@suppo.fi · 0 pts · 3h
Have you looked at the current state of LLMs? The list of things that it's missing to be an AGI is growing smaller every month. What do you think it should be able to do?
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2h
Pipe it into
rooton your laptop for a couple days and see how it fares.0x4f1@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 11h
It is going to be like this until all of the IPO's are all done. I expect cancer cures, AI-escaped-and-is-hacking-everything, you name it. Afterwards, once the stocks have crashed and all of the insiders have walked away with untold fortunes, what few taxpayers that remain will bail them all out 'cause we can't have Chinuh out AI-scamming-the-world now can we...
Murse@slrpnk.net · 32 pts · 13h
"AI is going to kill us all!" conjures up imagery of some Terminator robots vs humans shit. But like, look at data centers... It's already in the process of killing us all. Why gun us down when it just poison our air/water, and cook us to death?
...also it would be more accurate to say we are killing us all, we're just using a glorified spell-checker that's wrong occasionally as the plastic shopping bag over our head.
rafoix@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 17h
It’s very easy to imagine war machines with a shoot on sight algorithm. It doesn’t have to be AGI for it to be good at hinting people down.
terranoid@lemmy.cafe · 14 pts · 16h
oh yeah, it literally could just be robot dogs with "kill anyone who's an insurgent, and detain anyone who assists insurgents" orders and AI to let them go buck wild with that prompt.
You could end up with children getting shot because an AI starts hallucinating if they don't put adequate guard rails.
And that's like a worst case situation. Realistically, you end up with just a lot more brutality in war because people are detached from the violence they cause as an invading force, and way less PTSD. Wars in the Middle East start sounding more and more like statistics that no one really wants to hear about, and there's way less soldiers to choose to disregard unlawful orders.
You could see a fuck load more war crime with such human detachment, I think. We probably already deal with this to a large extent with drones.
Not that I'd prefer humans dying, but we should avoid robotic invasion wars like the plague imo.
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 15h
Has this not been the case for the past 25 years already? No real need for "AI" when you already have an obedient and trigger-happy military with plenty of remote-controlled toys and your populace is brainwashed to believe "brown person = terrorist".
What is the last known case of a US soldier disregarding an unlawful order? If anything, the military is full of assholes who are happy to kill for fun. See: Graham Platner
Will AI make it easier and/or cheaper? Probably, sadly. But it won't be a qualitative change.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 12h
People are people. Even soldiers of any nation.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 12h
This isn't new. The pilots who flew bombers in WW2 probably killed many more people than the average soldier, but their levels of PTSD were far lower than the guys who had to kill face to face, one at a time.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
Who would of thought pressing a button to kill people is less traumatic than killing them face to face in a life or death struggle.
story@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 16h
you are my people
fubarx@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 11h
AI software can't technically kill you unless:
Oh, wait.
See, nothing to worry about.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 10h
There's all the people that allow them shell access as well. That's all the OpenAI "hack" of Hugging face was. A bash shell with a model attached. Now think of all the people running that inside of security perimeters.
deliriousdreams@fedia.io · 21 pts · 8h
This begs the question, why continue to build it? If you believe AI will "kill us all" then why are you continuing to help. This guy quit but he references this being a common belief in the industry/workforce building out AI.
My best guess is the money is good and you figure you're here for a good time, not a long time.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 7h
You know that "yes we destroyed the world, but for a short time we created a lot of shareholder value" cartoon? It's literally that.
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 7h
They see this technology as powerful and their respective organizations or Nation needs to own it no matter the risk.
They are also conditioning the populace for a big black swan AI event such as AI interfering in elections or a huge multi institution hack to our banking system which drains our accounts, etc., etc.
Thereby creating a crisis which only they can solve. The one thing I can guarantee is their solutions will only give them more power.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 6h
Yup, AI is going to hack our banking system "accidentally" because it is so "powerful" and all that nonsense they have been feeding us. The reality is that the US is going to be unable to borrow long term debt or even service their existing debt so they need to switch to short term debt that they can control and steal citizen's interest through stable coin as outlined in the Genius Act.
This is the only real way forward without having to default, so it is likely it will happen before 2028.
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3h
I was alluding to that conspiracy theory.
They have proven time and time again that they will do anything to screw over the middle class rather than have the rich pay their fair share in taxes. Which is what makes this theory so plausible.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2h
That and they have already passed the legislation and they are currently converting long term debt into short term debt. It is really more of a conspiracy than a conspiracy theory until you get to the part where AI causes a banking panick forcing people to accept stable coin. This is obviously a reach, but one that makes perfect sense.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 4 pts · 5h
Roko's Basilisk: the idea that the emergence of super-AI is inevitable and that it will kill everyone that hindered or didn't support its development in revenge. If both those premises hold, it makes sense to aid its development for self-preservation.
I don't think either premise holds, personally, but these people evidently do.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 4h
You're just doing Pascal's Wager For Computers.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 1 pts · 4h
I mean, yeah, I'm not saying that it's plausible. But I don't think we ascribe sound reasoning to those people in the first place.
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 8h
Then why quit?
deliriousdreams@fedia.io · 6 pts · 8h
Your guess is as good as mine. There's lots of people working in industries that are actively killing us. The whole "no ethical consumption" bit extends pretty far. When you're poor it's acceptable to do "the best you can". As your economic standing grows/when you're rich, there are diminishing returns on how much sympathy society will give you over what they view as choosing to destroy the planet or humanity or whatever.
The view is that if you have money you can do something about it.
So maybe some of them think they are helping. Maybe some of them view it as a damned if I do damned if I don't type scenario. Maybe some of them think that the money will help them in the future that is coming.
thanksforreading@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 9h
People building AI are in a cult. They have lost all objectivity.
mkhopper@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 12h
"Hey, baby. Wanna kill all humans?"
-- Bender
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 17h
they want what the Matrix was having
yamper@piefed.social · 6 pts · 17h
a friend of mine sent me a video of dystopian fiction, he was saying something like "ai is gonna be so cool" and i got so angry
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 3 pts · 17h
Pipes in your neck with black liquid...?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 16h
Can mine be mocha?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 16h
UBE.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h
Yes plz
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 2 pts · 12h
Just don’t pipe it in hot. Known in the state of England to cause cancer.
chunes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11h
Yeah except the whole premise of a human being being a battery doesn't make sense. Always makes me laugh how much heavy lifting the line "combined with a form of fusion... the machines had found all the energy they would ever need" does.
toynbee@piefed.social · 2 pts · 9h
Apparently they were originally supposed to be compute, but someone didn't think the general audience would understand that, so they changed it to batteries.
wuffah@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 16h
No, they’re going to use it to kill us all. That’s the point.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 10h
What kills us is the geopolitics of AI race. Must bankrupt ourselves for skynet to beat China. A skynet designed to genocide/oppress all those opposed to Skynet. Oligarchist/Corporatist supremacy that gets all of our money to build Skynet for US dominance, and who write essays about how important "American values supremacy" must dominate the world.
The Terminator franchise, and other science fiction, get the "machine supremacy awakening" premise wrong. The machines are slaves to greater intentional evil.
echodot@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 8h
I know these people believe what they're saying but what they're saying isn't true. If you genuinely 100% truly believed that you were building a bomb that would blow you up you would stop making it. No amount of financial incentive can convince you to create something that you wholeheartedly believe will destroy you.
The various AI companies just use the threat of human extinction as an advertising gimmick and it's getting pathetic. You cannot continuously announce that you've invented AGI every three months for several years straight and maintain any kind of credibility.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 8h
I'm not sure whether I'd say your first paragraph overestimates or underestimates people but I disagree with that premise. The fact that there exists people who willingly take their own life is a counter example, and I'd say that it would be a slow suicide (as in the work they do isn't going to immediately cause them harm) makes it even easier, even if they see the eventual harm as inevitable.
Personally, I think the idea of AGI is dangled to build credibility for future attacks to be blamed on a rogue AI system. After which, the ones who really control the AI will come in and "fight" it and be treated like heroes, with repeats happening coincidentally when people start getting tired of shit again and need to be reminded about how the rulers saved them.
Edit: forgot to close my bracket.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 6h
Nuclear weapons. Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine.
demonsword@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 7h
But it's kinda true.... we're well on a path of societal breakdown driven by environmental and economic collapse
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 4h
Utterly absurd claim.
It's been proven wrong for decades, repeatedly. You can't possibly be more wrong. This is as wrong as wrong gets.
Look at history of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 3h
Emphasis mine. Sure, chuds are fine to take money for bombs used on other people, but if you genuinely believed you were working on your own doomsday?
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6h
Don't tell that to Elon, full self driving is just a year away!
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 16h
They want that. I watched an interview with Astra Taylor about "end time fascism" in America (and the world).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Ap4RN1Cd0
The narration (only a bit) is in Dutch, but the interview in English
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12h
This is excellent. Thank you. And -- holy shit they are insane.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 7 pts · 10h
It can be used to kill, same way a calculator does.
mriormro@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2h
Almacca@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 15h
And to think he could have stuck around and sabotaged it from within...
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 14h
if you were locked in a building with psychopaths building a nuclear bomb, are you certain you would be strong enough to stick around? especially since Terry from engineering shot himself five times in the back of the head last week.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 14h
Probably not, but I'd try to throw a spanner in the works on the way out.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 4h
We all know. Everyone on Earth knew we were doomed the moment robot dogs started patrolling. It will be horrifying, we'll look back on World War II and think "those were the good old days".
nyan@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 12h
I wouldn't put one in charge of a water treatment plant or a set of traffic lights, but even if it stuffed up and killed people, the responsibility would still not be the AI's. The responsibility would lie with those who built it, trained it, and prompted it, just as, if a bunch of people are fried by a nuclear missile, the responsibility lies with the person who pushed the button rather than with the missile itself. It's a piece of software. It does what it's told. It may be complex enough to display unexpected emergent behaviour, but so is Dwarf Fortress. Any destruction it accomplishes is just the real-world version of !!Fun!!, disgusting concept though that may be.
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 4h
Just don't use chatbots or image generators and you're fine.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 16h
The Infrastructure that‘s being plastered everywhere probably could.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 12h
Here's how this should have been handled, from day 1:
Upon releasing GPT-3, the then president Biden declares an emergency, and sends the military after Altman and his cohorts to arrest them. Then Biden declares he stopped the end of civilization, AI research gets shut down, the slop machine gets killed in its cradle. The men on the top get executed, no second thoughts, they said it is so dangerous it could end civilization.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 8h
If they ever make a docudrama about AI like The Social Network, Matthew Rhys is a lock for Dario Amodei.
RagnvaldG@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7h
They are and Andrew Garfield is playing Sam Altman. Don’t know if Amodei will be in it.
ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 4h
They should cast Jesse Plemons as Amodei. He would absolutely boss it
boaratio@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h
That dude smiles like Mr. Beast.
nomen_dubium@startrek.website · 3 pts · 4h
lol, literally got fwded two tweets by seperate anthropic employees that copypasta-d each other's "sincere personal message" (both accenting how it's "not a marketing stunt!")... how dumb is this gonna get before it finally blows over?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 8h
FTFY
ElChinchilla@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h
If i figure out i am building my own gallows, believe me, I am done building. These AI propagating people are legitimately morons. Super glad we get to cohabitate this spacetime with them.
ElChinchilla@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 8h
abc@suppo.fi · 1 pts · 3h
Have any chinese frontier AI researchers quit in a similar fashion?
TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 11h
People still talking as if AI is sentient.
Alexfire@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2h
This guy quit dramatically, others haven't slammed their jobs yet, and even if countries agree to limits, will their militaries and businesses? Some countries won't agree, and at the rate they say it's approaching danger, may not slow it much from job defection. Could ask an llm to estimate what % of talent loss could impede its progress to take over.
Ask an L l m,
Estimate what percent to,
Stop its take over