"People who believe in superintelligence present an interesting case, because many of them are freakishly smart. They can argue you into the ground. But are their arguments right, or is there just something about very smart minds that leaves them vulnerable to religious conversion about AI risk, and makes them particularly persuasive?"
Earwormed by Take My Job Away by Dubioza Kolectiv featuring Robby Megabyte, which hilariously takes us through our joys and fears about the (possibly) coming singularity
“One day in 1979, while logged in to San Diego State University’s principal computer from his home, #VernorVinge found himself chatting to another user via the #TALK program, both using implausible names and trying to figure out each other’s true name. “Afterwards, I realised that I had just lived a #ScienceFiction story – at least by the standards of my childhood,””
Well, I tried to accept #AI and view it as simply a new tool in the #artist arsenal. It's not. It's t̶e̶c̶h̶n̶o̶l̶o̶g̶y̶ #capitalists exploiting technology to turn us into drones with no creative outlet. AI will break #society. It will be worse than the #WorldWideWeb. Despite sci-fi literature and movies speculating on how AI might affect the world, it will be far more catastrophic than anyone could imagine. #Capitalism assures the worst possible outcome. The #singularity is supercharged capitalism.
#SciFi#AI#Singularity#AGI: "The singularity concept postulates that AI will soon become superintelligent, far surpassing humans in capability and bringing the human-dominated era to a close. While the concept of a tech singularity sometimes inspires negativity and fear, Vinge remained optimistic about humanity's technological future, as Brin notes in his tribute: "Accused by some of a grievous sin—that of 'optimism'—Vernor gave us peerless legends that often depicted human success at overcoming problems... those right in front of us... while posing new ones! New dilemmas that may lie just ahead of our myopic gaze. He would often ask: 'What if we succeed? Do you think that will be the end of it?'"
Vinge's concept heavily influenced futurist Ray Kurzweil, who has written about the singularity several times at length in books such as The Singularity Is Near in 2005. In a 2005 interview with the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology website, Kurzweil said, "Vernor Vinge has had some really key insights into the singularity very early on. There were others, such as John Von Neuman, who talked about a singular event occurring, because he had the idea of technological acceleration and singularity half a century ago. But it was simply a casual comment, and Vinge worked out some of the key ideas."
Kurzweil's works, in turn, have been influential to employees of AI companies such as OpenAI, who are actively working to bring superintelligent AI into reality. There is currently a great deal of debate over whether the approach of scaling large language models with more compute will lead to superintelligence over time, but the sci-fi influence looms large over this generation's AI researchers." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/vernor-vinge-father-of-the-tech-singularity-has-died-at-age-79/
How long before telephone support is just #ChatGPT?
Website chat support is already migrating to it and it's going to be worse than call menu hell.
ChatGPT is so f*g long winded in its responses, imagine having to listen to it drone on not answering your question until you can pin down the exact prompt it needs, if indeed one exists.
Then we'll get people hooking up their own #LLM to talk to the service #chatbot to save them from this hell and humans will disappear but not in a #singularity.
When people fret that A.I.s will achieve superhuman general intelligence and take over the planet, they neglect the physical limits on these systems. This essay by Dan Roberts is a useful reality check. A.I. models are already resource-intensive and will probably top out at GPT-7. Roberts is one of the physicists I feature in my new book about physics, A.I., and neuroscience. #AIrisk#AIsafety#Singularity@danintheoryhttps://www.sequoiacap.com/article/black-holes-perspective/
whenever an ai or a robot does something better than a human and someone slobbers all over themselves to declare that this shows the robot takeover is nigh, it tells me so much more about them than it tells me about our proximity to such an event
I'm at work. I clicked on the Spotify playlist by Dee-From-Twitter of #Taehyung recommended songs, which starts with his #Butter playlist, and my irrational emotion kicked in again "Jazz Boy is finally releasing his R&B 70s album" #BTS anyway I think I'll stick through with this playlist for today although the temptation to play #singularity is strong #BrokenOldWoman
Another article -- this one from 2009. I remember this one. I've been into sci-fi and stuff for a lot of years (the Terminator stuff in this article, Philip K Dick stuff, etc), but I've never wanted to obsess with it or have it make me paranoid or doomy. I even had to back off on a lot of it, other than Star Trek, etc, because it IS so dark, and no sci-fi will ever perfectly predict anything. But this article from 14 years ago is interesting. This kind of talk has been going around for a lot of years and again, NOBODY knows how all of this is gonna end up. And that's what's so weird about it. Anyway. The article from 14 years ago: https://archive.ph/pgDyv
I'm not sure if I posted this before (or if I even read it all when I bookmarked it) but I just took a few minutes to go through it carefully (it's LONG) but it's good. I know a lot of people are burned out by the AI crap (I pretty much am) but this really gives a good rundown on the history, the sci-fi and the future. Man, these dudes seriously wanna live forever (but WHY? Have they ever seen a vampire movie??) Anyway. It's a great long read if you have time.
Santa Monica tests AI cameras for parking tickets (ktla.com)
It’s an issue for cities across America: cars parked in bus lanes when they shouldn’t be....