nixCraft 🐧Feb 24

AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380 😂😂😂

So far AI has done more damage than adding any true value to productivty unless you consider the following as plus points:

* Getting staff fired
* Stealing journalist, book authors, or artists’ work
* Environment impact
* Hallucinations that caused harm and loss of life
* Creating undressing images of minors and woman
* The list list endless and you have to be psychopaths to like this

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says

Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investments are translating into US GDP growth.

Gizmodo
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 24

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Shyte

META AI executive demonstrating AI safety, interrupted her demonstration, to beg her AI to not delete, to stop deleting, her actual own emails.

To no avail.

#ai

Show threadSteve Hersey

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As has been pointed out elsewhere, you do NOT beg an AI to do anything. It's a mindless automaton.

You hit reset, pull the plug, or torch the data center's AC supply, but you do NOT negotiate with an overcomplicated spreadsheet.

Best case: You never trust an AI agent to do anything whatever. They're fundamentally unreliable.

Feb 26 at 5:58pmWeb
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 26

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👍 yep, begged, to no avail.

The "safety" official at Meta provided a truly entertaining education on just such points. If I read correctly she had access to connected servers and shut them down.

As humorous as it was, it taught all three lessons; it's stupid technology, it's not controllable, and shutting off the electricity is probably our best avenue to ending AI, in the short term, and long.

#ai