alt Hacker NewsWe've had movies like Terminator, Matrix, or i, Robot. Black Mirror Metalhead. Boston dynamics robo dog with a knife or a gun. Humanoids doing back flips. Memes making fun of how we are going to fight these for access to water.
The intelligence is there and so is the physical incarnation.
Google's models fold proteins better than humans and Covid might have been engineered and inadvertently escaped from a lab.
But when CEOs warn of that, they're dismissed as scare mongers. Why? Are only powerless internet commentators allowed to be fearful?
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> But when CEOs warn of that, they're dismissed as scare mongers. Why? Are only powerless internet commentators allowed to be fearful?
Because they conveniently skip the part that investors don't like: that liberal free market capitalism will be destroyed by AI.
But when CEOs warn of that, they're dismissed as scare mongers. Why? Are only powerless internet commentators allowed to be fearful?
Well are they going to stop developing the tech or not? If not, then you can see why people don't trust what they're saying. I mean if it's that dangerous, why not step down from your role as CEO to demonstrate how seriously you take the threat? Why not immediately call a pause on all training, today ?
holy heck, thank you for the moderating dose of sanity. HN comments feel like a death cult lately. All I can think is that this is intelligence addiction speaking.
I say this as an intense user of these tools. But they should rightfully be understood as terrifying, and their continued frontier development is imho not safe.
They aren’t attempting to self-regulate. On the contrary, it seems like they’re doing whatever they can to bring about any possible threat as fast as possible in order to get legislation. Regulatory capture is what everybody is saying is their goal and I think that’s easier to believe