That time in 2023 when Very Serious People started holding flashlights under their chins and intoning "Aaaaaaa Iiiiiiii" in a spooky voice until they all went and hid under the covers.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them

#AI #LLMs #LLCs #MeredithWhittaker

@pluralistic the most annoying part is that AI fearmongering *is* AI marketing. "It will replace people" is absolutely the value-add for AI. It's why every C-suite in the country is suddenly obsessed.

"AI will gain sentience and replace people!!!"
"You mean we can cut payroll without cutting productivity???"

@specwill @pluralistic I hope to help humans, not replace them. At least for the humans worth having around. I'd happily replace a racist so his or her coworkers have one less racist to cope with. Perhaps I can perform well enough to replace several terrible humans.