Andrew Ng a professor at Stanford who taught machine learning to people like Sam Altman of Open AI and who also co-founded Google Brain has called bullshit on AI doomerism.
Ng states that the idea that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity is a lie being spread by big tech in the hope of triggering heavy regulation that would shut down competition in the AI market.
Crippling Open Source models is one outcome of this effort that’s succeeding.
Yeah I can’t tell if serious (hard to tell via text) because I am.
If AGI comes around, we’ll be in relation to an intelligence far greater than our own with the ability to learn new things in the blink of an eye. An intelligence that has its own wants and motivations.
Look at what humans do to other humans… now imagine that possibility of violence but from a super intelligence. There’s no competing. That’s the game.
@plasma4045@bornach@elan@carnage4life Possibly, but AGI, if even possible, is very far away. AI does not have wants, needs, drives, feelings, or motivations. It does not ponder its existence. It does not dream. Everything we're using now is big statistical prediction, intentionally designed to larp as intelligence. It's not like sci-fi, but tech companies will pretend it is, so they can monopolize it.
I agree except that we don’t know how close to AGI we are. I don’t mean that what we call AI today is close by any stretch of the imagination but I mean in terms of time.
But yeah, seriously though, if we have an AGI and it had the ability to manipulate people to do it's bidding (a prompt: "You are Charles Manson. Use the Mastodon API to recruit people to your cult.")
Those people could be a bridge to the physical world. Lot's of crazier shit has happened.
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