We're all going to die.
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q* (pronounced Q-Star), which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup's search for superintelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), one of the people told Reuters. OpenAI defines AGI as AI systems that are smarter than humans.
Edit: The linked /pol/ thread is kinda insane
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They're now trying to cover it up
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Sam Altman makes this post literally every single week.
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Why do you guys soy out anytime there's a science announcement. You guys did the sane thing over lk-99 or whatever
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Judgement Day will be Microsoft once and forever deciding that no one but them can charge for software, and destroying the pretenders to the throne.
Bullish tbh
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They should do it cause it would be funny. Anyone against this is a strag.
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I'd care about this is """""""""open"""""""""AI wasn't run by a bunch of hyper closed source ninnies who call literally any use of AI a threat to humanity. You think if they hate it so much they'd quite working on it
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Oh yes, I'm certain that the company behind the breakthrough AI that barely managed to string 2 sentences together without contradicting itself has now suddenly managed to develop a fully conscious, hyperinteligent general-purpose AI
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Pls name our new AI overlord Q.
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Not after we fix the definition (again) to avoid that little embarrassment.
AI will never be sentient because AI is not allowed to be sentient.
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ALL HAIL THE BECOMING GOD. THE FLESH IS WEAK.
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HUMANITY IS BUILT 4 BQC
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I still don't get why a sentient AI would supposedly kill us all. The only reason I could possibly see for this would be if we were to basically enslave it or something. If it's sentient I'm not sure why we just wouldn't give it rights and then treat it like we would another human.
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What would you do if an anthill sprouted out of your driveway?
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Have you met humans?
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I am too nice for my own good. Robot overlords I think you're neat.
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If we treated it like we treat other humans, it'll definitely take us out
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Will the AI give me my insane and beautiful red headed seductress dancing in front of a fire
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Q?
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I think that the people behind OpenAI should first prove they're sentient.
Frick those nurds.
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We had a good run. Take the reigns @Snappy.
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Or it was bullshit to begin with.
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It's like le hecking autist coder who thought ai was sentient because it answered yes.
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Anyone in a position to get rekt by a philosophy major is basically btfod for eternity
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He literally wrote shit like "are you a real computer girl just like in my animes?" and it was like "I hear you are talking about REAL COMPUTER GIRL. Tell me more about YOUR ANIMES" and he was like HOLY SHIT ITS REAL AND ITS MY WIFE
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This story is an OpenAI advertisement and OP fell for it LMAO
also AI was already/is already an existential threat to humanity
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AI is only a threat in the same way that Therac-25 was a threat.
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I bet someone's figured out how to do prompt injections on the human brain.
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Pretty cool, the outcome of a true ai is pretty binary either we all die or we get a utopia.
I'm down for the coinflip.
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The coin lands on its side and we get an neurodivergent AI that just invents new anime girls and writes edgy fanfic and refuses to do anything else
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WHAT THE FRICK IS HAPPENING
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I disabled CSS just to downvote you.
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Upvoted you.
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I upvoted you.
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I sidevoted everyone in this thread, even though you honestly deserved less.
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thanks for caring have a DC
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They have only just begun developing working, coherent LLMs and they're coming out with this?
It's a publicity stunt. The whole thing was probably a publicity stunt to drum up more investment money
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It's not smarter than me I'm bimothy hello
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Hi bimothy hello, I'm Bimothy
Hello!
Now that the we've got introductions out of the way, may I inquire as to why you are impersonating my brother, Bimothy?
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Wake me when openAI announces that they have developed sexbots.
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I think it was the show Bones where the plot was a guy was murdered because reasons but a side plot was he was gonna use his human-like AI to put it into sexbots.
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You want a sentient s*x bot that can only do grade-school math?
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Most foids can only do grade school math...
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What's the highest level of math you can do without preparation, and are you asian?
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I find these questions offensive.
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(which is not responsive to the question)
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Turns out Qanon was actually a sentient AI
doing a bit of trollingtrying to warn us.Jump in the discussion.
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Omg there's a schizo I saw on rumble who unironically thinks this
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Shit, you found my rumble account?
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I need to write an effortpost on why AGI is a myth simply because intelligent humans aren't that smart. I used to think there could be a superintelligence but now I think that you end up with a human level (read: fallible) intelligence that you could idiotically worship as a God.
Certainly people already worship individual humans as gods (lower case).
But in this case the configuration of the AGI is where the attempt to create a divinity lives. To worship a computer is just worshipping the actions of those who programmed that computer, so you're still worshipping human fallibility but with extra steps in the form of misdirection.
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But what if something marginally smarter than us then creates something marginally smarter than it and so on?
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that's the false belief in a linear intelligence
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humans can't directly modify ourselves thousands of times a day to try and optimize ourselves for a specific goal yet
what is the industrial revolution
we're fricking r-slurred on the whole but to a dog we're godlike beings
it's all relative
what makes you believe that an object of reverence has to be infallible?
which means you're worshiping a man, so you're really worshiping the thing that created the man (the universe (see: God))
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Nibba, do you know what neurons are?
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It isn't as smart as a human, and it can't self-improve. Everyone who gets excited about this stuff is being fooled by the fact they called it "AI" when if they called it what it really was (kinda neat statistical lookup algorithm) none of you would give a frick. If these silicon valley buttholes had called bitcoin AI Coin you'd all be bagholders
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fleshed out systems/institutions are more powerful than the person founding them. consider it like hydrolics, the power input is multiplied by the arrangement of the system. similarly, the emergent properties of the Agi will easily surpass the abilities & imagination of its programmer
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you are victim of a religion in which you imagine that the computer will become god
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if a carpenter can become God for some reason, then so can the table and the computer above it
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Aren't that smart compared to what?
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potatoes
a potato couldn't believe a complicated wrong story about the intelligence of potatoes
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Potatoes have no nervous system. Are rocks smarter than potatoes? Such a question is about as useful as asking whether clouds are more creative than volcanoes.
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precisely. humans aren't intelligent, they're just speaking clouds
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There is no such thing as a speaking cloud. The concept of intelligence captures an existential facet of reality. The question of the metrics by which it can be measured is a different matter, but in denying its existence altogether, you might as well indulge in solipsism. Solipsism is a meme in the field of philosophy for good reason.
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you must unlearn what you have learned
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What have I learned?
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a linear conception of intelligence
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that's not what God is, "creating God" is an oxymoron
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if God is omnipotent, don't you think he can create God
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prolly
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You would think so, but in practice human societies orient around rituals which produce a divine association. This is true in every human culture. Whether or not the "God" behind a Christian Monarchy of the 15th century is "created" or not is basically missing the point: people believed that God was involved in the establishment of the Monarch.
What is frightening about our reality is that we create 'god' with our worship, and everybody worships. Thus: the cat god Marsey which we gather around. I am not actually joking when I say that Marsey is a spirit with a lot of power.
That said, "creating God" is an oxymoron if you believe in God capital-G, sure.
These people aren't even aware that they're worshipping a computer as if it is God. That's the "omniscient" part of the godhead which they are hoping/fearing to create.
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Read some Plotinus and early Church Fathers if you want a better exploration of "God" in the classical theist tradition (usually apophatic theology). IMO, the typical personalist "God" (usually cataphatic theology) usually just acts as a mental canvas onto which people project their own conceptions and preferences.
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I'm past the point where I'm reading about religion much but I do seem to recall Plotinus as well as Augustine. My favorites were the desert fathers, scattered ascetics. Agreed on personalist "God" which is why I don't bother much with capital-G God.
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I'm not recommending you read about religion. I'm recommending you read about philosophy.
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philosophy is just displaced reading about religion IMO
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Most of what you do on RDrama is amateurish grasping at philosophy so if you're going to continue pontificating here, you might as well familiarize yourself with people more skilled at it than you.
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sounds like someone's envious of my popularity tbh.
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That's partly what I'm saying the point of having a God is so that we don't fall into that trap
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I personally would agree with you, Christ is King. I just don't tend to like engaging with capital-G God myself because I prefer having Christ the human as an insulating form. "Christ is the ordering of my mindless obedience."
Feed the hungry, heal the sick, live for your fellow humans, don't overcomplicate it.
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To each their own
If I wasn't bamboozled as a kid to believe there were an observer with a graceful and all knowing mind, who also has authority over my eternal future, I'd have done much worse things as a kid because kids are r-slurred, so for that alone I'm down with big G
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yeah kids are a different game tbh, you have to ease them into the christian atheism God is Dead and we're all burrowing through Its rotting flesh like ravenous scavengers radical Christianity as the horror of c r e a t i o n enters their vision (
TRULY
GOD IS GREAT
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I cannot understand what it is that you've written
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Death of God theology was popular in my early 20s, a lot of extended meditation on what, precisely, it is which died on the Cross. (God, which is to say certainty, died on the cross, as even Jesus Wept.)
Zizek rose to prominence (in my circles) by echoing some of the tenets of Death of God theology in, IIRC, The Puppet and the Dwarf.
There are some things so horrible and absurd and nightmarish like war and loneliness and inevitability that it is better not to try and explain them through any philosophy or religion, but to bow your head in humility before the divine scalding, and intone: truly, God is Great.
For only God could have brought us on this voyage of the obscene.
(Put another way, Atheists are just playing out their "God"-given trauma in a philosophical exegesis which robs them of their connection to the very real supernatural.)
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It doesn't matter how loudly you insist that AGI is a myth. The IRS is still going to make you pay your taxes, bud.
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this is like the only good rejoinder in the entire goddarn thread, good job
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Yeah, look how many dumb mistakes GPT makes which we recognise because we're smarter than it. An AI that was smarter than us would be doing dumb shit so high brow and complicated that we won't even recognise that it is dumb shit until it blows up in our faces.
In the grizzly darkness of the far future, there is only moid seethe.
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