I love that “you sound scared” has become a way to shut down critics of AI.
…yes.
yes, I absolutely am scared of it.
No, I’m not ashamed of that.
I don’t hate AI. I don't believe it’s going to destroy us terminator style.
But I’m scared half to hell of the misinformation, political divisions, unemployment, manipulation, spam and deepfake porn and what it’s going to do to our world.
Like it or dislike it, everyone should have a healthy level of fear about what this technology can do.
“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”
@Daojoan This reminds us of advice that was really emphasized to Teenage Fiadh when learning to shoot a gun: Have a healthy fear and respect for the powerful technology engineered to kill that you're holding in your hands.
a healthy level of fear about what this technology can do.
@Daojoan “It’s revolutionary!”
So are guns. How well are we doing with those?
@Daojoan I had a disappointing ethics course and the unit on tech opened with the first slide being the Terminator, I was already so very done.
This was in 2018, iirc.
Hollywood AI is not what we are talking about.
It's like asking someone concerned about climate change whether they think Godzilla is gonna show up.
Real, mundane, hideously humdrum dangers exist, and we need to be able to talk about them, ideally without hype spinners trying to hijack the dialogue for their own ends.
"It's like asking someone concerned about climate change whether they think Godzilla is gonna show up." Thank you for crafting the perfect line to reply to these "AI safety" types.
@MisuseCase @Daojoan all the more disappointing to have it showing up on the slideshow as the premier danger of AI.
I stand opposed to automated weapons as well, I just think that they're not going to become an independent existential threat anytime soon, just another horrific tool in the military/polices hands.
@Daojoan at the end of the day, it's allways about the who wields the tool. I mean, look at the recent british postal service scandal. People lost jobs, people faced (maybe even got) jail time, because company behind their software would not admit it was faulty.
Glitches in the bits, bad programing, etc. cost lives. When it comes to "AI" just ask JP Morgan if they are willing to tolerate faulty system with "glitches be glitches" rhetoric.
I don't know why should the rest of us.
@Daojoan experts like us warn about the dangers of AI for a while now.
Many you mentioned. Perfectly tailored mass scam being probably the biggest warning. No Indian call centers, but your mothers voice with a convincing story.
Problem is the media putting Terminator style SciFi scenarios into peoples head. If an expert goes on TV to warn about the dangers of AI, they will ask him about murder bots and of course he has to debunk that nonsense, and that is all the audience remembers.
@Daojoan
> I don't believe it’s going to destroy us terminator style.
i am sad that this is not going to happen
@Daojoan, I agree with you almost completely... Except that my fear is not what this technology can do, but our imaginative and righteous species can do with it.
For me, at this point, humans are the scary link.
@Rhube @CorioPsicologia I genuinely think a lot of folks haven't even considered that the environmental cost exists. There's just not enough publicly shared information about it.
And honestly - that's on writers and journalists like myself who need to do better.
@Daojoan Similarly, LLMs can be useful but it's a very narrow array of use cases. You can't just let anyone use them and they should require some amount of expertise and responsibility in order to use them.
While firearms are far more dangerous than any image, they both have great power and require great responsibility and knowledge to be used.
@Daojoan but yeah, I suppose also a bit fearful for what this does mean for the future.
Hopefully all the wing dings pumping all this money into all this bullshit lose their ass quick enough and this shit starts to fall away. But, that's probably nothing but wishful thinking.
@unchartedsandbox I'm not a journalist. I can fact check but it is a lot of effort and I already have more todo than I have time for.
@Daojoan Generative AI should have never existed. Never ever.
It's not only a tool of capitalism to kill art and creativity, it will also be the weapon for propaganda and fascism.
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With the same justification I may claim
– AI doosters mold AI discussion. In future AI can symbolically mold everything where it has been used, just because it was used there. Mere association incriminates.
– Despite of AI propaganda has already molded our cognitive filters during tens of years: #Finnlandization, nuclear fear, submission and appeasement under evil power politics, etc.
– Why wouldn't the democratization increase #MediaLiteracy just like internet memes did?
Maybe you should be more afraid of mold than you think:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/slime-mold-smart-brainless-cognition/
And let's not forget fungi:
https://researchoutreach.org/articles/new-theories-expand-cognition-fungi/
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