According to the "Terminator" film franchise, TODAY is the day that Skynet became self-aware, took over, and started its campaign to destroy humanity. The good news is that instead we have garbage like #Google Gemini that can't even answer questions like "When was Kamala Harris born?"
So we're probably safe from Skynet for now.
@lauren Today I had to „chat“ with an „AI powered virtual assistant“ in an attempt to book a train.
I couldn’t move past the first question I asked even after rephrasing it several times.
So I can confirm that today won’t be the day that machines try to take over, unless their chosen strategy is to waste humanity’s time to death.
Nobody said that Skynet started out as competent. Just self-aware.
We don't know Skynet was self-aware, that's just the interpretation the survivors put on events probably years after a global nuclear war took out most of the evidence.
It's entirely possible Skynet was just a regular LLM plugged into the US's defence systems by history's biggest fucking idiot.
You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
You're assuming Skynet has no reason to give wrong answers to humans.
I disagree.
If Trump could be elected, a computer with the power of an HP-35 could destroy humanity.
@lauren CAN'T answer correctly, or WON'T...?
@lauren We all got this email from management lately, so I think they're changing the name from Cyberdyne to Hyperdyne.
As we broaden our vision, it's time for us to adopt a new brand. To reflect who we are and the future we hope to build, I'm proud to share that our company is now Hyperdyne. Our mission remains the same — it's still about asking what are people. Our work and their brands aren't changing either.
@lauren Remark: it is not intelligence that makes AI dangerous. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (shortly before the Nazis murdered him) wrote an interesting piece on stupidity and it’s dangers: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8616320-stupidity-is-a-more-dangerous-enemy-of-the-good-than
The danger of AI arises from the amount of power we delegate to it. If we were to hand over control to nuke cities to the AI, it wouldn’t need any real intelligence at all to doom us.
A stupid AI with authority is more dangerous than a hyperintelligent one without.
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