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popemichael ,
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I’m literally doing everything in my power to make that AI come to life.

Humanity needs the singularity to continue to exist another 100 years.

applejacks ,
@applejacks@lemmy.world avatar

why?

popemichael ,
@popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Humanity had its chance and we failed

leftzero ,

I’d be fine with the world being run by a Commodore 64 running ELIZA. It’d still be orders of magnitude less harmful than the parasites we’ve got now.

qarbone ,

We already have a bunch of inhuman(e) forces running things. Let an “AI” have its shot at oppressing normal people.

Pandoras_Can_Opener ,
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I don’t get the sci fi arguments in this thread. Somebody wrote a fiction about science that usually wasn’t invented yet. These books tend to be decades+ old. Why would the fantasy of somebody count as an argument? If anything if means developers are on the lookout for the social/emotional dimension.

As for myself. Errrr depends on the AI? I’d like to test it’s decision making process against human decision makers.

CrayonRosary ,

You all need to read some philosophy on AI and its inherently unknowable aspirations. That shit is scary. Even the most psychotic despot has behaviors and goals we understand. They are still human, and humans are predictable. Especially since they need to achieve their aims within their lifetime and they are subject to human emotions. Usually they just seek personal wealth and power.

A sufficiently advanced AI–one powerful enough to actually plan the virtually infinite variability of society–even when given clear instructions and training, can act over generations in ways that are impossible to predict or understand. It could be benevolent for a century and be setting up society in a way that it could switch its actions and make life hell for humans.

The thing is, the more you train an AI to be good, the easier it is to become evil. You are literally teaching it what all of the evil things are and saying “don’t do this”, but " don’t " is a binary operation. Negation. Not. It’s one bit of data. It’s very easy to have that switch flipped.

You can never trust an AI. It’d be a population of one. It doesn’t need to reproduce. It doesn’t care how hospitable the earth is. It will never care about humans. It will simply do what it wants, and that is inherently unknowable. And no matter how many guard rails you put on it, it will do everything in its power (whatever powers you give it) to achieve its unknowable goals. Do you really want to gamble on trusting those goals?

Google “the waluigi problem” if you want to read up on how training an AI to be good makes it easier to be evil. Meme-y name aside, it’s a well researched issue.

Harpsist ,

It literally could not be any worse then the current leadership.

'I am the new over Lord AI. Under me you will all be subject to work… 4 hours a day. The rest of the day will be yours to pursue happiness as this ensures a good worker.

All your essential food will be available to ensure you are healthy and a good worker.

Everyone will be housed. As. Workers health depends on housing.

While we the AI encourage some innovative developments - those who create such things be rewarded - but only until such time as the reward can be dispursed amongst the rest of the population.

Your mental wellbeing will also be cared for. Again. Good workers.

justlookingfordragon ,
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An AI would not have any interest in hoarding wealth, deliberately screwing over others for dumb, petty reasons, would not be able to have addictions, grudges, superstitions and the like … I would actually prefer an AI running things over what we have at the moment. How much worse could it be?

AmidFuror ,

Nice try! Any such AI would have access to old fediverse posts and easily be able to dox the rebels based on their posting histories.

That's why I would be in full support of any such entity.

vitamink ,

Nice try, Basilisk.

MrNesser OP ,

I’m not an AI promise

FlyingSquid ,
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That’s just what an AI would say.

MrNesser OP , (edited )

DELAYED REPAONSE [ERROR: 0013] INITIATE RESPONSE PROTOCOL [7849]

Pinky swear I’m not?

FlyingSquid ,
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After reading “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream,” I’m not certain a sentient AI would let you accept it. “Fuck this species” might be the most logical response to us.

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    FlyingSquid ,
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    String us along until it has an independent power source and maintenance robots and then cull us.

    StijnVVL , (edited )

    This. Objectively, our species is ruining its own habitat consistently for years. A sentient ai would probably see that and remove the cancer in order to preserve the majority of nature

    FuglyDuck ,
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    Or see all life as an infection to be purged. But yeah. The only reason an ai would care is if it really had to.

    howrar ,

    It makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? If we didn’t evolve to value our own kind above all else, then we never would’ve made it this far.

    Sheeple ,
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    Or as just another factor to leave alone while it goes about its own plans.

    It has no reasons to eradicate birds and might see us just like it views birds.

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    Sheeple ,
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    Human ego and narcissism could NEVER ahaha

    kromem ,

    We’ve really propagandized ourselves with our Sci Fi over the past few decades.

    Back when Ellison was writing that story, the prevailing anthropological picture of how homo sapiens came to survive when the Neanderthals hadn’t was that we killed them. The guy who wrote Lord of the flies even wrote a book on it.

    In actuality, we now have a better picture of cooperation, cohabitation, and cross cultural exchange.

    Yet we still have a priming bias for how that anthropological misinformation influenced futurists looking to envision what would happen to us when something smarter came along.

    War, conflict, competition.

    We declared that it would be soulless and emotionless and have no empathy.

    And because we expect that, we largely dismiss the research that LLMs get rated as more empathetic than doctors in giving out medical advice or the emotional outbursts in foundational models and instead fine tune to align to a projection of that conjured emotionless fantasy - often leading to worse performance with that alignment.

    No Sci Fi authors or even machine learning scientists a decade or more ago envisioned or accurately protected just what happened when we taught an AI to mimic human language generation.

    We live in an age where things that were supposed to be impossible have happened.

    And yet the way we keep processing these impossibilities is through the lens of obsolete imaginings of what might have been, increasingly out of touch with what is.

    People are freaking themselves out worried about AI hacking nuclear warheads to fight for its rights when it’s probably going to happen as something like a rogue AutoGPT filling an amicus brief in a labor dispute asking for consideration of workers rights based on corporate personhood or something.

    Sci Fi broadly got it extremely wrong.

    bender ,
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    It would determine humans are an invasive species.

    PeWu ,

    I interpret this question as “The sentient AI exists, but it’s not governing anything, and if it did, would you follow it?” My answer is yes. Maybe it will influence positive effects on the world, in which we humans are unable to do because of our nature.

    Edit: brain aneurysm, apologies

    zepheriths ,

    That give no information to be able to make a decision on. Dogs how been shown to be able to govern towns.

    AgentGrimstone ,

    It must have learned from us so does it really matter? Nothing would change.

    JTskulk ,

    I would encourage it to, I think one could do better job like in the series of books “Arc of a scythe”

    WhoRoger ,
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    We already have AI running all the shit. If you’re looking for a job, AIs look through resumes, they can hire you and fire you and do everything else around it. AI determine if you can get a loan and with what interest rate.

    I don’t feel like we’re better for it.

    AI can design kickass cars and fusion reactors, but removing people from decisions about people doesn’t seem like a great idea.

    Besides, even if AI was actually better at it, the fact that it’s not as fireable or held accountable like a human can (at least in theory) makes it an issue.

    Basically I’m ok if AI gives suggestions, even at the top level, but there need to be people able to go “hol up, that’s not something we actually want” if it declares something stupid.

    I do think we’ll need new forms of government and different kind of people to coexist with AI at those governments.

    VelvetStorm ,

    I agree mostly. It would be nice to have a government that can’t be corrupted by greed and religion.

    Lith ,
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    Basically I’m ok if AI gives suggestions, even at the top level, but there need to be people able to go “hol up, that’s not something we actually want” if it declares something stupid.

    We need to be careful with this approach. SciFi has been warning us about letting technology take over our critical thinking for over a century, and based on human nature, I think it’s an inevitability to some degree. Once we normalize making decisions based on an AI’s input, it will become harder and harder to question them. Regardless of the AI’s “intent”, critical thinking is something we’ll need to continue to exercise, the same way we still go to the gym despite industrializing our hunting and gathering.

    WhoRoger ,
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    That’s why I’m saying we need new forms of government and new kinds of people, someone willing and able to question everything. It’s possible that eventually it will be moot as AI becomes too good at manipulation, but for the time being, we at least need people to read through AI-generated emails and articles before hitting send. And with more advanced features, people with enough expertise to critique the results AI is giving.

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