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 Good point, let’s change it to “AI will replace C-suite people first… as it’s so much better/faster at taking in a lot of data and making decisions, often with less personal biases (though biases will still exist)”
@craigfrancis @specwill @pluralistic
C level people and AI will probably loose against random choice of options so we can just replace them with a dice.