They don't deal real death, it's just deathslop
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Current LLMs and their ilk will never become "Skynet". Critics of the tech aren't overlooking this "risk" because the risk doesn't exist.
These things don't need to be smart to cause damage. You just have to hook them up to critical infrastructure without human oversight and watch the magic happen. Capitalist drive to maximize profit efficiency all but ensures that will happen sooner or later.
The most likely humanity destroying event to worry about is an AI for some reason hooked up to a defence system and hallucinating an attack since they are programmed to wait for an attack to happen, it doesn't have purpose but to attack when it is attacked. If it wants to fulfill its purpose then it could just make an attack.
The one that is going to happen is that we will wreck all our water in cooling systems, use all our power to run the servers, and bankrupt towns and cities giving tax breaks to companies that cannot possibly provide jobs and economic gains to those areas to offset the loss of income from taxing the AI farms. They will close up before the 5 or 10 year tax relief bills come due and leave pollution from their temporary power plants behind when they shutter them up.
Honestly, the most likely humanity destroying event is out of control global warming which we're achieving perfectly fine without any need for AI. In fact, it can be argued that corporations represent everything we fear AI will be. These are non human entities with goals that are not aligned with those of humanity. There's a great article by Ted Chiang on the subject https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway
Groks servers are powered by dozens of "temporary" power generators that are burning fuel 24/7 with no environmental protection or exhaust mitigation. Just pumping out fumes and heat into the atmosphere.
AI is global climate change and water waste in a neatly wrapped gift no one asked for.
Let's not pretend like that wasn't already happening long before AI. The entire western society is built on unsustainable consumption.
Ok? Who is out there that's criticizing "AI" that is also saying they can't do damage because they're not actually intelligent?
i just wanted to mention ai drones and surveillance already exist. it's already doing damage, and i'm not even considering the environmental damage they do.
Again, what critic is claiming that llms and the rest of the tech aren't causing damage?
i'm not sure what you mean.
you were arguing ai won't become skynet, i am arguing it already has in many ways.
i’m not sure what you mean.
It's literally the comment you responded to. Either way, Skynet isn't just "machines that hurt people". In the world of Terminator, Skynet is the hyper-intelligent, self-aware AI that facilitates the surreptitious takeover of humanity's technology. Saying llms will ever remotely come close to that demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what the technology is and can do.
actual ai is controlled by rogue oligarchs to facilitate a take over of humanity's technology. it's not just machines that kill people in a vacuum either.
in practice, for us down here, it's already acting like skynet in many ways.
Isn't that your argument when you say these aren't skynet?
The entire purpose of the meme is to say it doesn't matter. You're claiming the risk isn't real without backing up the claim.
It doesn't matter if they ai killers are human like or air borne drones or something we haven't thought off.
The entire terminator franchises is how humanity created the tech to exterminate itself.
How is saying "these programs won't become sentient and take over the world" equivalent to claiming they can't do any damage? And if it doesn't matter, why is it being used to strawman criticism? Every critic I've ever seen has been very aware of the damage the tech is doing now and can do in the future. You're the only ones here claiming that the two are believed to be linked.
The entire purpose of the meme is to say it doesn’t matter. You’re claiming the risk isn’t real without backing up the claim.
It doesn't matter, but it needs to be substantiated? Pick a lane, already.
Also, this?
The entire terminator franchises is how humanity created the tech to exterminate itself.
The entire franchise is fiction. We have enough real world examples without acting like fake stories are any sort of basis for an argument.
I get the impression you don't really understand the concept of a meme. It's not a philosophical treatise lmfao. Memes are just loose sketches of an idea where the reader is free to project whatever they like onto it.
You're just acting like a reddit debate bro here.
"It's just a joke!" Classic, hollow defense.
what exactly did you think memes were exactly? 🤣