posted on May 19, 2023 05:18 PM by
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OpenAI CEO Predicts AI Will Someday Give Birth To Twins, Their Names
Will Be God And Satan. ‘One Will Fight For Humanity While The Other
Tries To Destroy It’
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It’s so odd hearing these executives constantly go on and on about
the detrimental effects their creations will have on society. They
honestly have touted the most dystopian aspects of their tech over any
of the actual good these sorts of systems can have for modern medicine
or any other thoughtful uses which could help society at large.
By pretending that Skynet is a real threat, the tech bro CEOs can avoid talking about what would happen if massive worker displacement/replacement actually occurs in the future.
Fun problems to solve: "I will save humanity by stopping Skynet from implementing Judgement Day. I'm kind of like a cooler John Connor."
Unfun problems to solve: "My effective tax rate should be twice what it is right now so prosperity can be shared with everyone. Also, I should have less power in the workplace because of robust worker rights reforms."
> By pretending that Skynet is a real threat, the tech bro CEOs can avoid talking about what would happen if *open source keeps stealing their lunch like Stable Diffusion did to DALL-E.*
ftfy
Also by hyping up what their engineers have created as a possibly malevolent superintelligence they can distract us from the fact that their 'Artificial Intelligence' writes like a rather boring high schooler who alternates between bullshit 5 paragraph essays and trite fanfic.
they want so desperately to be important, and they're not. In the grand scheme of things, social media, algorithms, and machine learning just aren't that important
merely the latest wrinkle in the revolution of mass communications that began with newspapers in 17th century Great Britain. On the scale of centuries social media etc are minor development
Would that it were true, but this is just head in the sand wishful thinking. You don't realize all the places that algorithms have been involved in -- eg even when you get medicine -- and are likely in denial about the effect of social media algorithms on political outcomes for example.
I'm entirely aware of these effects. I'm claiming that they're not new in any way. Elections have been ratfucked for centuries by various methods. And just because algorithms, formerly known as flow charts or decision trees, are faster and more complex doesn't mean they're anything worth clutching pearls over.
To some degree, I agree -- for example, we worry about algorithms that replace or augment public services incorporating social biases, but those services are already biased anyways. Racist cops use racist algorithms, what's the difference from racist cops before AI, right?
However, it's key that we pay attention and influence now, while the change is happening. The point isn't that things will necessarily get **worse** as algorithms are deployed -- they point is to recognize an opportunity for change, both bad and good, and demand control for the public.
It honestly feels like they are just following classic monopolistic behavior where they try to force government regulation that is onerous for startup competitors but doable for preexisting models.
fear is a good marketing tactic. "Skynet will eat us all" is way more compelling than "oh look now you can talk to Kayak and book your tickets, so amazing"
It’s so odd hearing these executives constantly go on and on about the detrimental effects their creations will have on society. They honestly have touted the most dystopian aspects of their tech over any of the actual good these sorts of systems can have for modern medicine or any other thoughtful uses which could help society at large.
So it is foretold!
🫡 thank you for posting a link instead of a screenshot
I liked the Norse mythology reference