the greatest trick AI ever pulled was creating the cultural perception that it would be the „slaving machines“ that kills us, instead of the indifferent wills of the money-men who built the machines…

And of course, now they keep recycling the same fears with classism and racism.

And so many sci-fi writers have been blatantly uninformed and ignorant Ito these issues throughout.

And "assisting" internet searches, so we know we should eat:

- petrol in our spaghetti sauce
- glue in our pizza cheese
- rocks
- those mushrooms that melt down your liver

BS hyperbole.

Techonlogy develops all the time and the AI resource demand is going down.

OR, is it like #Bitcoin where the resource price is the bottle neck throttled by Bitcoin price? 🤔

@aral

Don't count out the killer robots. They are coming along nicely. Just because they will be deployed by humans and not by SkyNet and won't be self-replicating doesn't make them not a threat.

All those "human in the loop" systems are being developed with the knowledge that it would be more profitable to take the human out of the loop at some point. Palantir drools about it.

#AI

@flargh I think it will be a dance off.

npr.org/2024/10/04/g-s1177-261…

and they still won't get *general* AI out of in it. Just hallucinating piece-of-shit LLMs that can only churn out spam and incomprehensible text..

At the expense of what little climate stability remains

That’s the 20-40 year plan.

For the average person, they’re more likely to have their life threatened by an AI:
- Rejecting their medical needs - organ recipient, insurance (US)
- Deciding that cost cutting measures on the product factory floor are worth the risk to safety relative to likely blowback
- Rejecting their job application
- Devaluing the only work they are able to do, being disabled
- Stealing time in productivity’s name from others who might have seen your pain

There's also the people who'll die to it but not by anything bombastic but because it decided to cut some bureaucratic thread that unravels someone's life entirely.

Making a massive misinformation generator means it'll misinform in small and big ways, some very noticeable but others will be subtle enough to cause some real damage.

Remember when we thought search engines would use more all the electricity and water?
Then it was social media.

It’s not that the technology is unproblematic — glorified predictive text of dubious origin being wildly and widely misused to support a fantasist tech bubble — but there is a pattern here.

A thousand years from now aliens visit Earth and sift through the remnants of humanity...

"Our archaeologists have discovered that apparently the downfall of their civilisation started with something they referred to as 'Clippy'."

Exactly! I had a discussion on AI with a colleague and when I said I see an overall danger in AI, without being specific, he just threw in the argument„yeah killer robots are terrible but we can regulate them, see AI is just a tool like any other“…

It’s like you say. People have been effectively gaslighted that THAT is the real danger.

Stunning!

My inner 12yo in the backyard with her brand new telescope looking up at the night sky is very, very impressed. And, TBH, more than a wee bit envious.