Godfather of AI tells '60 Minutes' he fears the technology could one day take over humanity

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• Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is propaganda designed to increase hype and fear of supposed fake “AI” which does not exist. We have generative predictive text which is already incredibly unreliable. Just an impressive gimmick. Do not give in to fearmongering like this

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  • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is what a malevolent AI capable of mass misinformation operations would say

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It will make us so unfathomably stupid WAY before it has the means to conquer us. I’m very interested in who is going to be the first to make the mistake of arming an AI with a physical presence in the world though.

  We’re kind of staring at the clock at this point to see who is the first asshole to create a Terminator scenario.

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  • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    General AI doesn’t exist.

    That’s it. If you gave an AI power to do anything it couldn’t even order on Amazon for you (if a developer didn’t program that functionality per hand). If we actually had general AI that could learn and improve itself the world would change in an instant.

    What we have is machine learning, just an algorithm that takes input and gives you output. It can’t act on its own. The massive problem is when you start to rely on that output (while not knowing the reasoning behind decisions happening inside the model). So for example the government trains a model for social security, every person gets some money each month. But in the training data something was off, suddenly your AI is racist and gives every black person a lesser amount. But because everyone thinks the AI knows best you can’t argue against it.

    And no, there is no intelligence there. You can’t ask the AI “why did you give Mr. Smith $300, but Mr. Peters $150?” it doesn’t know, it’s just a model that wrangles numbers and spits something out. Even something seemingly intelligent like Chat GPT just guesses the next word in the output that should fit best. Super complicated, impressive, but in the background it’s again only an algorithm. If you tell Chat GPT to go to a website and create an account, guess what? It can’t.

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    • RonSijm@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What we have is machine learning, just an algorithm that takes input and gives you output. It can’t act on its own.

      Isn’t that basically what “real learning” is as well? Basically you’re born as a baby, and you take input, and eventually you can replicate it, and eventually you can “talk” for example?

      But in the training data something was off, suddenly your AI is racist and gives every black person a lesser amount.

      Same here, how is that different from “real learning”? You’re born into a racist family, in a racist village where everyone is racist. What is the end-result; you’re probably somewhat racist due to racist input - until you might unlearn that, if you’re exposed to other data that proves your racist ideas were wrong

      If a human brain is basically a big learning computer, why wouldn’t AI eventually reach singularity and emulate a brain and beyond? All the examples you mentioned of what it can’t do, is just stuff it can’t do yet

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  • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My guess is we end up more similar to Wall-e than terminator.

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    • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Though I think we would fix the obesity issue. We’ll have food/drinks that’ll supply us with basic healthier nutrients that mimic whatever we want. Could just be virtual food and a daily pill.

      I think we’ll be more like “Ready Player One.”

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  • mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wasn’t Raytheon owners of the largest quantum computer at one point and was talking about how their drones were preparing to use or using AI? It’ll probably be the US’ dumbass defense contractors that do it first. At least we made some really cool weapons before they killed us…

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    • tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To my knowledge quantum computers are not a reality yet.

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  • chevy9294@monero.town ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a normal human I think we should not:

    • give AI access to the internet
    • teach AI to program
    • turn it into physical form

    I think we already broke all these rules…

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its like that one onion episode

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• Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If AI can take over mankind, then it’s an evolutionary step and it deserves to rule. Humans are faulty constructs, embrace our future overlords.

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plus, we’d go down in history as something akin to gods, which is still pretty dope.

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  • Kyle@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Perhaps we will be to our descendents as the first tetrapods are to us.

    Not the worst thing to happen to a species, seems to happen to all of them.

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• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m being 100% serious, what in the way humankind has treated this planet, the life on it, and even pathetically one another makes any rational human think we should continue to have dominion over this world?

  Aside from boiling it down to “gotta root for the home team.”

  We suck at it. We fail completely to take care of the earth AND eachother. Most of humanity is made miserable by a small collection of most sociopathic humans that basically do it to pad their own egos.

  Sorry, I’m rooting for Skynet. Fuck the home team.

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m curious what is your political affiliation?

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    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Progressive until I realized there was no will to make a better nation, only temporarily embarrassed millionaires dancing to the oligarch’s fife waiting for their turn to be cruel and punch down that will never come.

      I no longer believe our species has the capacity at large to create a better future. I think we’re just intelligent enough to make tools we’re too stupid to be trusted with, and that would be fine if we were only risking ourselves, but other species live here, which I know is a crazy, notion to even consider when a capitalist has profit in their eyes.

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• esc27@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Already happened decades ago. Much of the world is controlled by an algorithmic feedback loop that has subverted powerful countries economies and continues to gain strength and influence. It just did not start as code on silicon.

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• scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You see, I have the ability to pull the plug

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  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not if you are dead

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    • lolrightythen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I believe that is what they meant

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have created an AI that will find the most effective and efficient way to cure war, pollution and world hunger… Huh it’s making metal skeletons weird

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• redeyejedi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ted Faro wants to know your location.

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