@alex_p_roe

Well, we're back to the Terminator meme, I guess....

@alex_p_roe

Yes, although the tech-folk here on Mastodon still mobilise some good arguments for why its overly alarmist....

@alex_p_roe

There is no AI yet.

There is pattern recognition, which science and medicine make great use of. There is LLM- style text and image generation, which ordinary folk like to play with, and there are programmed robots which carry out planned actions.

There are robots which can get between two points, chosen by a human, autonomously, sometimes while carrying a box if required to by a human.

The gulf between all of these is, as yet, unbridged. They rely on completely different versions of "AI".

The problem is humans giving an "AI" system an instruction and letting it work out the best process to carry it out—without humans being in the loop prior to execution. THAT is dangerous.

We're at least a human generation away—at the soonest—from anything resembling artificial sentience, which is what most people think of when Hollywood mentions "AI".

@ChrisMayLA6

@PeterLG @alex_p_roe

Which is also why I use the term 'AI & associated technologies'.... I'll be interested to see if we really are a generation away from AI sentience (25 years seems like a long time in technological development terms)

@ChrisMayLA6

My thought is that is will take quantum computing to provide the necessary bit crunching oomph to reach AS.

Real QC, not the current single- or multiple-qubit experimental stuff that takes a room full of gear to barely work. (Flashbacks to early IBM...😄)

(The lastest QC stuff IS exciting though.)

@alex_p_roe