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What's the "AGI existential risk" one about?
The AGI Liars are well funded by the AI industry. See, if AI is dangerous, that's because it's powerful and useful, which are things the AI industry loves to pretend is true.
it is powerful and useful though, just not in 90% of the use cases they're trying to cram LLMs into
I've heard the "Companys bad obv but Gen AI is useful for specific tasks!" But what tasks is it good at that wouldnt be more efficently done by a neural network or other far more efficent AI (other then writing corperate emails which Ill give you that)
See, if AI is dangerous, that’s because it’s powerful and useful, which are things the AI industry loves to pretend is true.
But what tasks is it good at that wouldnt be more efficently done by a neural network or other far more efficent AI
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I was just asking what purpose LLMs server compares to just using a specilized diffrent AI since you said their still useful. LLMs need massive databases and energy costs and even then routinely output gibberish so progress to society do they lend?
as someone in close proximity with ai doomers and with a reasonable knowledge of computer science - I don't think AGI is as silly as this meme presents it - however climate change is a much more pressing and encompassing issue that I feel takes precedent over any super intelligence fears.
like the "best" argument I've heard is that climate change isn't as big a deal since super intelligence will solve it but then we'll get subjugated by it - ok but how about it solves our most existential problem first and then we worry about the aftermath?
they all seem to just throw up their hands and say we shouldn't let it save us (if it even could) and just live out the rest of lives since there's nothing we can do about either... weird tho how this argument only ever seems to come from comfortable westerners.. if they were really serious they'd be out there destroying chip fabs in Taiwan..
idk I just think it's the new climate inaction narrative but in a tech doomerist clothing.
The way to solve climate change is to stop carbon emissions. The trick is to convince everyone to do that. No one has written anything down that does that on its own or in aggregate so an LLM cannot regurgitate that answer.
Solving the climate crisis will inevitably involve the working class overthrowing the owner class, because we need power to change the systems of government and business responsible for pollution. The working class is the only class incentivized to fix the climate crisis, because the workers can't all fit in apocalypse bunkers the way the owner class can. And again no one wrote down the thing that will give all workers class consciousness so LLMs can't regurgitate that either.
The LLMs aren't AGI. So the theoretical abilities of AGIs and the consequences of creating AGIs aren't relevant. edit: typos
The goofy part of that argument is assuming there's some miracle solution that we just haven't thought of. There have always been solutions, they just weren't what power hungry imperialists and capitalists wanted to hear. The surest way some super intelligence could save us is by somehow getting our short sighted asses to set aside selfish advantage in favor of common good.
Another flaw is assuming an AI could simply science infinitely faster than we can when science relies on data gathering and double checking work with different methodologies, which would still bottleneck an AI that could instantly data analyze and see insights no one else could.
Such a super intelligence could also be prone to the same logical pitfalls and biases we are, even if it had millions of times the processing power. We already see machine learning producing "errors" similar to human minds, as such networks have a lot of the same limitations and strengths as our own. It could become convinced it's correct and miss insights that contradict its preconceptions, stalling progress instead of helping it.
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AGI is terrifying in the same way that a time machine is terrifying. We should be scared shitless... If it existed. If we had some inkling of how such a thing is even built, we need to start worrying.
Good thing we're about as close to AGI as we are to a time machine. Of course, the LLM pushers who are hundreds of billions in the hole for somehow making a tiny bit of money back, have a half trillion collective dollar motivation to get people to at least consider the AI bubble as useful, and going "oooooh, AGI scaaaary" makes peopl think it's capable of things.
Do you have a link or a higher quality version? This one is almost unreadable.
edit꧇ found it
But my lord…… the jpegs…… they are entirely insufficient……..
The paperclips are a nice touch
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Global warming is the dinosaurs getting revenge on the planet.
Turns out the black gold really is cursed
Open the image in a new tab and zoom in to at least 240%. It's fine.