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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Melt@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago

The tone of the blog post is so amateurish I feel like I'm reading a reddit post on r/Cryptocurrency

[-] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Don't get me wrong, this move from the board reeks of some grade A bullshit but this article is absolute crap. Is this supposed to be a serious journalism?

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing. That is... Weird in ways I didn't anticipate. "Weird cult of pseudointellectuals upending the biggest name in silicon valley" wasn't on my bingo board.

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

IMO there are some good reasons to be concerned about AI, but those reasons are along the lines of "it's going to be massively disruptive to the economy and we need to prepare for that to ensure it's a net positive", not "it's going to take over our minds and turn us into paperclips."

[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Social media already did that.

Not the paperclips part, that might actually be of some use.

[-] diablexical@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The author did a poor job of explaining that. He’s referencing the thought experiment of a businessman instructing a super effective AI to make paperclips. Given a terse enough objective and an effective enough AI, one can imagine a scenario in which the businessman and the whole world in fact are turned into paperclips. This is obviously not the businessman’s goal, but it was the instruction he gave the AI. The implication of the thought experiment is that AI needs guardrails, perhaps even ethics, or else it can unintentionally result in a doomsday scenario.

[-] Bal@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I don't know a lot about the background but this article feels super biased against one side.

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Can somebody explain the following quote in the article for me please?

Rationalists’ chronic inability to talk like regular humans may even explain the statement calling Altman a liar.

[-] vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine "roko's basilisk", but extended into an entire philosophy. It's the idea that "we" need to anything and everything to create the inevitable ultimate super-ai, as fast as possible. Climate change, wars, exploitation, suffering? None of that matters compared to the benefits humanity stands to gain when the ultimate super-ai goes online

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That was an entertaining read. Thank you.

Even better, though, was this linked article about humans running AI behind the curtain.

https://amycastor.com/2023/09/12/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

A duel between hucksters and the delusional makes sense. The delusional rely on the hucksters for funding whether they want to or not though. No heroes.

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