alt Hacker NewsWhat makes you think, the scenarios in question here would be "silly"?
Is it that "chatbots" can't come out of the screen to immediately harm you physically?
Let's say they simply manage to take down the internet. How many would die?
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It is that they are chatbots. If it were real AI, an actual singularity, I would worry, maybe. But it isn’t. They are absurdly powerful automation tools that can handle logic better than a human can dream of. They take care of the grunt minutiae without complaint. But they are not going to end the world in their current form.
> Let's say they simply manage to take down the internet.
geez, don’t threaten me with a good time.
I think a month without internet would be a fucking amazing lesson for what it means to make things durable and reliable.
So what. Various attackers managed to take down large chunks of the Internet on a frequent basis before LLMs even existed. This killed very few people. The great thing about the Internet is how resilient it is.