So you know enough about AI to know that worrying about something like “turning off the world’s money” isn’t possible? What’s your career?
1984@lemmy.today 11 months ago
I like some of his movies but this article reads like someone just imagined his worst fears, and with no ability to judge if it’s probable or not.
The AI would turn off the worlds money system? What?
the_q@lemmy.world 11 months ago
1984@lemmy.today 11 months ago
I’m not worried. What’s your career?
CluckN@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You fool you’re replying to an AI!
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You don’t need to know anything about AI to know that. Just do some basic critical thinking:
- What does “world’s money system” mean? A stock exchange? Software that runs some process at the Federal Reserve of a specific country? Credit car company databases? What? It isn’t centralized.
- The ability to “turn it off” means what exactly? Do you think there’s some switch to disable all credit card transactions for a whole company? Or just break their software?
Even if AI is perfected, nobody in their right mind would give direct control of these things to an AI. There isn’t any reason to. An AI would basically just be another person, but super smart. It could be useful for a lot of things, but their decisions would need to be vetted by humans, and there isn’t anything like a “shut it off” switch that exists as it is.
Alex@lemmy.minecloud.ro 11 months ago
Since he reached old age the man has gone completely senile and really not putting a bullet in his brain is doing the whole world a disfavor. I’m not saying that he single handedly destroyed a franchise by shunning aside Neill Blomkampf, then unironically making alien:covenant, then blaming fans for its failure, besides many other ramblings. I mean even in it’s current crappy state AI is at the very least 10x the writer Scott is and once they jam it into a robot body it will probably be 100x the director he is. So I can at least understand his concern. Motherf…
zoomshoes@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
He should be shot because he made artistic decisions you don’t agree with? That’s wild.
Alex@lemmy.minecloud.ro 11 months ago
Non fans won’t get it and that’s fine, I was also scratching my head at the hans shot first and prequel trilogy fiascos when I first encountered them. But a simpler example to grasp is lets say if Leonardo Davinci came back from the dead and painted a mustache on the mona lisa because why the fuck not? The main complaint is that he was dissatisfied with the pull of prometheus which was a decent movie by itself but unrelated to the alien franchise and decided that he can have a bigger audience and pull if he frankensteined them together. So I don’t give a crap about his creative decisions as long as he keeps it out of stuff that does not require it. Another example would be Elon Musk buying twitter and essentially destroying the platform. Did that truly benefit anyone?
zoomshoes@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yeah but, dude. Shot in the head?