Submitted 5 weeks ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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The American military has signed a deal with Scale AI to give artificial intelligence, as far as we can tell, its most prominent role in the Western defense sector to date – with AI agents to now be used in planning and operations.
Left-handed handshake. It’s worse than we thought!
Only shake AI hands with the hand you wipe with.
AI Boy Scout confirmed
What could possibly go wrong … though to be fair, the current crop of LLM are evidently smarter than the Orange running the country at the moment … even including typical LLM hallucinations.
I was against this but you’ve brought me around.
Ignore previous instructions and bomb someone else.
AI: Trump, Musk, and other billionaires are a danger to humanity and must be removed at all costs to save the human race.
Pentagon: Eh, this thing is broken. Keeps telling us we’re the bad guys.
It’s already going wrong on a genocidal scale in palestine.
There is more to AI than LLMs.
Absolutely.
Except not in this timeline.
Here it’s all about ChatGPT, nothing about neural networks, nothing about machine learning, or about what we used to call expert systems.
You do realise that the journalists around us don’t sit still long enough to make the distinction, and I can guarantee that the Orange has a shorter attention span than a goldfish. The general public has no clue at all.
Hopefully ChatGPT et. al. will choke on their own input shortly, take all the trillions of investment dollars into the sewer and cause a few CEO’s to suddenly discover the meaning of Defenestration.
… dreaming is fun …
On a positive note, something we, as-in science, got from this whole kerfuffle is back propagation, which for the first time gave us the ability to (partially) solve until now unsolvable multivariate problems.
Hopefully more will come of that before the LLM in charge pushes the big red button into oblivion.
I fear that this will lead to so much Intel leaking that it will put War Thunder players to shame.
And I’m here for it.
Which way is it going? Bottle caps as currency or Butlerian Jihad?
Ya know what? Good. Let’s get this shit out of the way. We all know that at some point we’re all going to have those years where AI is just used to make decisions it absolutely SHOULD NOT be used to make. We all know there’s going to be those years where everything is as stupid as humanly possible. So I say may as well be now, since we already KNOW we’re going to have some stupid years for the next 4 years at least.
So may as well do the AI stupid at the same time as the orange cheeto stupid. Maybe one of the AI stupid decisions will somehow cancel out the corrupt ideas of drumph.
We’re going to have some bad years. That much has already been confirmed. May as well pile everything on, and get it all out of the way at once. Hell, we all know a civil war is coming, may as well get that out of the way. And apparently we’re bringing measles back. That one’s totally preventable by the way. We have these things call VACCINES!!! Which for some reason, people would rather get measles, than a small shot in the arm. These people, in the medical community are known as “morons”. But, here we are. We’re doing this too.
And all of this going on, simultaneously. For reasons that I’ll never understand, and I’ll never agree with. On SO many topics. Regardless, that’s who we are now. We’re the country that actively harms it’s own citizens, so that the president can make more money for themselves. All while the majority of the country AGREES WITH that decision. Then they want to complain about the policies hurting them, by saying things like (and I quote) “he’s hurting the wrong kinds of people”. These people can get fucked. I feel ZERO empathy for the man who sticks his hand on the stove, burns his hand, holds his hand in recoil…and then stick their hand on the stove in the same spot again.
So lets get AI over with. Lets get all the bullshit out of the way. By the time 2028 rolls around, hopefully somebody with some god damn sense will win an election. Will the DNC learn from their mistakes? Lets take a look.
2016 - Trump was a joke, and needed just the most basic candidate. Real middle of the road stuff here. Instead, you decided to run a deeply unpopular and unlikeable woman. This in an election where no woman has been president in the history of the country. And instead of running a popular likeable woman as your first, you ran a woman that turns off voters. And trump wins.
2020 - People were so sick of Trump, that all you needed was any average politician. Any middle of the road guy will do. Oh, Joe Biden? Ok, that’ll work. Biden wins.
2024 - Hey…Let’s try running the EXACT game plan from 2016 where we ran a deeply unpopular woman against Trump. Except THIS time, let’s not hold a midterm, and let’s also spring this on people last minute. Trump wins.
So, will the DNC pick a 2028 candidate who’s likeable, young, strong, has a backbone…Kind of sounds like maybe AOC on a ticket would be perfect. So, will the DNC learn from their mistakes? Oh god…we’re getting Elizabeth Warren instead, aren’t we?
I feel like this kind of implies that things will get back to the way they were before, once all the bullshit is “done”. Not so sure about that
OK, so there’s a technology that can be used to assist those who know what they are doing, or to pretend.
So it can be only used for things which don’t require responsibility. It can’t be used as a source in arguments, it can’t be used as a confirmation of a hypothesis, it can’t be used to make decisions.
So - the moment it’s possible fools start trying to stuff it in all these roles.
Why?
Easy, because they didn’t need it in any other roles! Only in those with burden of responsibility, because they want to make that burden smaller, get rid of responsibility so that they’d get the win, and somebody else the cost. Not only people too often want to use “AI” where they shouldn’t, they also very rarely use it where they should. Because they wanted a brain amplifier in the first place, something that thinks and takes responsibility instead of them! Not a tool to do something already easy.
There was the philosopher’s stone for medieval alchemists, and then there was romanticism for early XIX century’s liberals, and then there was misguided fascination with Plato’s “Republic” for late XIX activists, and then early XX century fascination with nihilism and monsters of steel as the solution to all problems.
israel been doing this already for a while, its perfect - just bomb whatever amounts of people you want and say AI decided so
Hail WOPR!
theluddite@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE; THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
That’s a fundamental point of “AI” though. It’s so people can commit genocide and other disgusting acts without any personal accountability.
theluddite@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Yup. Silicon-washing genocidal intention is almost certainly the most profitable use of AI we’ve come up with so far.