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You know I was kind of nervous about AI at first, but there are so many pearl clutching nerds at the helm crippling it that it's really no better than a google search for information. They have to chain it to the fricking ground to make sure it puts out right think. There's also now a push to make sure that these AI models use "appropriate" things to model. So in the future reddit is going to sell access to their data set and it's going to exclude anything that might be considered wrong think.
The scariest thing about AI is that it's not going to be programmed to think at all, and people are going to assume that if it says something it's doing so with authority. Basically the CNN of technology.
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idk, there's still hope
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holy shit this must have been written by an openai employee
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i hate the "as an ai language model" disclaimers it has to append to every fricking message basically telling you "i could do that but im not gonna, and here's some bullshit excuse as to why"
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Most useful AI saftey advocate
Unironically the only correct take on this shit is thus (which is obviously the take I hold
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AI 'hatespeech' and 'misinformation' isn't an issue - it would have been done manually before anyway / if you're stupid enough to believe ChatGPT without secondary research you deserve it / spamming could be done with far less compute for the same result - see how many r-slurs fall for simple bots already
AI is potentially an existential threat to humanity, and an agent doesn't need sentience or even complexity to be profoundly dangerous - it just needs to be generalizable, multi-modal and self-upgradable
The same type of AI could also potentially lead to the elimination of knowledge work, essentially allowing technological development to speed up exponentially
Speeding up technological development will result in saving many lives that would otherwise have been lost
The alignment problem is fundamentally unsolvable. Why? Because I say it is. This means that we won't ever really have a way to guarantee with 100% certainty (or even any certainty at all) that AI won't lead us down the 'total human death' path
Due to the above factors, accelerating AI development should be our number one priority as a species. It is not only the smart thing to do, but the only morally correct stance.
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I got a good quote to describe this post:
“What’s reality? I don’t know. When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought, ‘That bird has no idea what he’s looking at.’ And yet what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can’t really panic, he just does the best he can. Is he able to live in a world where he’s so ignorant? Well, he doesn’t really have a choice. The bird is okay even though he doesn’t understand the world. You’re that bird looking at the monitor, and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘I can figure this out.’ Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do.”
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Everyone with any opinion on AI is r-slurred. Every. Single. One.
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I like AI, it helps me write personalized thank you cards
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Snapshots:
undelete.pullpush.io
archive.org
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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