Is there anyone serious who is saying this? Or is this just another way to make the tech seem more powerful than it is?
I don't get this "we're all gonna die" thing at all.
I *do* get the "we are too disorganized and greedy to integrate new technology well without the economy getting screwed up and people suffering... but that's another matter..."
@futurebird He’s playing both sides because he profits either way. If there is regulation, then he positions himself to co-author it to constrain his competition and cement his company as a leading profit-maker in the now-constrained field. If there is no regulation and AI inevitably shits the bed, then he will claim “I told you so, it’s your fault for not regulating us.” Win-win.
If Altman really wants to save the world from the devastation of his company’s creation, he could destroy ChatGPT and never release it into the world.
But he did release it. Now he wants lawmakers to take responsibility for the shit-nuke he’s releasing into the world for profit.
@futurebird Oh and one more thing: by playing up the doomsday scenario that could supposedly be caused by his product, he’s hyping up his product as something that is *so amazing* that it *could* end humanity! It’s a kind of humblebrag!
In reality, an LLM is a (very, very good) sentence-completion engine. ChatGPT’s lasting legacy will more likely be the widespread pollution of the internet with annoying, mediocre, plausible-sounding bullshit, rather than the end of humankind.
It’s a marketing stunt.
@futurebird Similar take here by @pluralistic:
“These people have a reward function: “convince suckers that AI is dangerous because it is too powerful, not because it’s mostly good for spam, party tricks, and marginal improvements for a few creative processes.”
If AI is an existential threat to the human race, it is powerful and therefore valuable. The problems with a powerful AI are merely “shakedown” bugs, not showstoppers. Bosses can use AI to replace human workers, even though the AI does a much worse job — just give it a little time and those infelicities will be smoothed over by the wizards who created these incredibly dangerous and therefore powerful tools.”
@drahardja @futurebird @pluralistic
I agree AI can have many benefits, however as with anything there are risks of it being misused for example.
I feel the biggest threat is the fact our education systems are not keeping up with technological advances. We still kids in the UK who are behind thanks to the pandemic, we need to be training people in technology, we need better cybersecurity training for example (at least in my view).
AI has the potential to create more IP, this will be the target of criminals who want to steal that, BUT surely with open access to AI, they will be using AI to help themk do that.
We need to take a good look at our education systems and update it so that we are training todays children with the skills / ethics of the future, equip them so they can research, and critically think that reseach so they can learn and develop properly. If nothing else so we can have the important conversations as to how they see the future, what do they want to inherit from the creators of AI, We need to involve everyone in that conversation, but it surely needs to be evidence based.
