Comment on The Hated One - "Ai Will Wage Wars Over Water"

• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t forsee it becoming “sentient” so much as “Being given a stupid amount of access and resources to figure out a problem by itself, and stupidly pursuing the maximization of that goal with zero context.”

  There’s that darkly humorous hypothetical that an Ai tasked with maximizing making paperclips would continue to do so, using every resource it could get a hold of, and destroying any threat to further paperclip production!

  So that, with data center expansion and water. Lol

  See “paperclip maximizer” under “hypothetical examples” Here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    oh this is happening today. the ultra-addictive social media thing is mostly through machine learning algos being tuned to do this regardless of anything else.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      EXACTLY. High-five!

      That’s what I worry about. Right now we can ignore social media somewhat, but if Ai gets wedged into contracts with government/infrastructure and other unavoidable daily life, I imagine that’s where a plausible threat could come from.

      I’ve no doubt such things are already in the works. Ai controlled traffic lights or something, for instance. Obviously the military and law enforcement are already giddy about it, of course.

      Giving a stupid machine a seemingly simple goal to pursue and the wrong set of keys could lead to disasterous consequences, I think. We also have the whole “Do Ai cars protect the driver or all human life even if it risks the driver?” Debate.

      “But it’s trendy, it’s the future! And there’s so much venture capital involved, how lucrative!”

      I don’t see it some day “waking up” and thinking “I feel like humans are unnecessary.” It’s scarier than that…it will see us as just another variable to control and “maximize” us out of the picture.

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