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#3056599 30-Mar-2023 14:55

wellygary:

Could be very ominous application of

"Move fast and break things"

Absolutely where the *real* danger lies. AI is just a tool.

Whether it's a screwdriver, a scalpel, or a sword depends on who's wielding it. The fact is that people most likely to wield it first are the Thiels, Musks and Zuckerbergs of this world. Or equally as bad but in a different way, the wonks you've never heard of that run the HFT systems generating profits for themselves from the arbitrage of a 10ms head start.

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#3056600 30-Mar-2023 14:58

Personally, I'm getting increasingly more worried about fungi...

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#3056605 30-Mar-2023 15:18

Kookoo:

That's a bit of a strange take on things isn't it. The chances of an asteroid strike are miniscule compared to the factual climate change that is already happening.

Depends on your definition of “destruction”.

If it’s “Total obliteration, all gone, no one left”, then I very much stand by my take on things.

If its “your life has been destroyed because your favourite cafe no longer serves Soy Lattes” then you stick with your facts.

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#3056612 30-Mar-2023 15:33

Earbanean:

Personally, I'm getting increasingly more worried about fungi...

Exactly , and when Fungi become self aware thats the end. !

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#3056810 30-Mar-2023 19:30

Heard this on the radio this morning. Goosebumps for sure

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#3057075 31-Mar-2023 12:02

SJB:

We have an advantage that AI can't overcome - we don't run on electricity from a wall socket.

That depends on what you define as AI?

If its on the internet then no pulling electricity from some wall sockets will not stop it because the internet will just re-route traffic. You going to have a very hard time unpowering the internet. This is the AI that is coming for your jobs and will destroy lives due to these people no longer being able to find work. Those that do all of their work typing away at a keyboard all day are the most at risk and those will be the jobs to go first.

Its a very different story for tradies, teachers, nursers, surgeons, lawyers etc.. We are very very far away from AI taking these kinds of jobs.

Regarding climate change, its happening regardless and IMO its hundreds if not thousands of years before it starts destroying mankind. Even then we will get through it.

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#3057078 31-Mar-2023 12:13

Wombat1:

This is the AI that is coming for your jobs and will destroy lives due to these people no longer being able to find work. Those that do all of their work typing away at a keyboard all day are the most at risk and those will be the jobs to go first.

Queue the Butlerian Jihad....

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#3057154 31-Mar-2023 14:25

So its arriving just in time to deal with demographic collapes around the world ?

Office work goes, and they all get retrained as Plumbers, Drainlayers, Hammer-hands, Garbage Collectors, Healthcare, Aged Care, Law enforcement and all the work that has to be done by a person, in person ?

So the limited number of young people is compensated by the need for office work disappearing.
Balance restored to the world.

Paying $500 to $1000 an hour for an AI lawyer, I suppose we will get used to it, and at least they can communicate more easily with the AI Judge.

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#3057202 31-Mar-2023 16:22

SJB:
We have an advantage that AI can't overcome - we don't run on electricity from a wall socket.

Yes but.

Sooner or later AI will be running the network…

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#3057203 31-Mar-2023 16:24

ezbee:
So its arriving just in time to deal with demographic collapes around the world ?

Office work goes, and they all get retrained as Plumbers, Drainlayers, Hammer-hands, Garbage Collectors, Healthcare, Aged Care, Law enforcement and all the work that has to be done by a person, in person ?

So the limited number of young people is compensated by the need for office work disappearing.
Balance restored to the world.

Paying $500 to $1000 an hour for an AI lawyer, I suppose we will get used to it, and at least they can communicate more easily with the AI Judge.

What’s hammer hand? I just use my right hand. Is there a special one?

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#3057206 31-Mar-2023 16:36

Geektastic:

What’s hammer hand? I just use my right hand. Is there a special one?

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#3057238 31-Mar-2023 18:02

wellygary: Queue the Butlerian Jihad....

Yes, I was thinking about mentats on the first page!

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#3057379 1-Apr-2023 10:00

As for Musk calling for other companies to halt AI training for at least 6 months because of "profound risks to society" - what a load of bullsh!t. He simply wants a chance to play catch up with his own extreme right-wing version of AI.

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#3057388 1-Apr-2023 10:50

Dratsab:
As for Musk calling for other companies to halt AI training for at least 6 months because of "profound risks to society" - what a load of bullsh!t. He simply wants a chance to play catch up with his own extreme right-wing version of AI.

Like his right wing teslas? Or his right wing starlink? Yes terrible for both our environment and society.

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#3057398 1-Apr-2023 11:45

How about trying to separate the man, and what he says, from those companies products instead of breaking Wheatons law?

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