I’m concerned about desperate acts.
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It’s not the super powers you should worry about.
You should worry about terrorists getting hold of modern AI (they already have it).
With zero epidemiology knowledge, I could create the coronavirus in my garage today, using Chat-GPT4 and budget of $20k.
It’s very hard to handle viruses safely.
It is not hard to create a pandemic in your garage.
Watching US cozy up to restrict act with zero media coverage has me VERY worried. This is more dangerous than another Covid.
Yes, the TikTok Act barely mentions TikTok.
It’s basically a declaration of USG sovereignty over all wires.
I think this act could even be a serious alignment risk for some future AI to interpret as a threat.
You have to think very hard about all of your actions now. The world today is not a relevant guide for the true consequences of todays actions.
It gives sec. of commerce pretty much unlimited power to do as they please with any US citizen for any reason. The wording is so broad is trumps all constitutional rights. It’s unamerican, authoritarian and anyone who supports it should be tried for treason imo.
It bypasses all judicial review and blocks FOIA.
Yeah it’s wild.
The US is so big and so diverse, they have a really hard time writing sensible laws.
Their legislators resort to clearly bad practices like blindsiding each other with 60,000 page documents to read in 2 days.
They probably shouldn’t be doing so much new legislation. At what point is the legislature finished? Do people really think legislature is an open ended project?
After 200 years, you should be about finished.
Maybe the constitution should have made some provision for halvings? 😂
I think they know exactly what they are doing and don’t care. It’s like Patriot Act 2.0 but exponentially worse. It’s deliberate.
War-like policies being put in place, yet no one can see it.
We are going to be clawing at each others throats other to escape the 90% of humanity made obsolete by AI.
This isn’t even super intelligent AGI.
It’s just cheat code level AI.
One law I expect to see somewhere in the West, is it being made illegal to fire people.
Then massive protectioneering is coming.
More worried about the threat of “terrorists using AI” being seized upon by government for further restrictions than I am the very real threat you point out tbh.
Bad stuff can and will happen, worse over time as it gets more powerful. Governments can’t control it but that will be their natural reaction and it will fail. Outdated institutions inhabited by weak geriatrics and ideologues of no substance are supposed to guide humanity through this shift?
This is where your anarchist streak should come out Stu. Authority isn’t going to navigate this, people are.
Be really useful to have as much of this open source as possible given the lack of understanding we have.
Not restricted, recognise we’re reaching a new frontier for humanity here for better and worse. People need to solve how we’re going to deal with this, not the state. The more minds the better.
Lest this be the next iteration of nuclear power, held back from humanity because Team America World Police declare war on it.
I think the chances of any government getting out ahead of AI is nil.
They haven’t even figured out how to tax capital, without it escaping every time. They’ve been trying for 2,500 years.
So I do agree, it’s gonna be people who tackle this one.
I think it’s almost impossible for small entities to get sufficient data to train powerful models at the moment. But if the models are open source then small entities will have them.
We are 2 years away from having a personalised AI on your smartphone that knows personal information about you and works to serve your interests, you can shun this if you like but you will have a hard time competing with people who embrace it.
We will also have jailbreak versions of AI that exist on Linux devices. These will be easy to set to nefarious / malevolent tasks and bad people will do that.
Including all kinds of blackmail / fraud / threats / criminal activity you can think of.
By 2030 the world will look very different.
The threat level is going vertical and soft targets are going to get hammered.
I think the chances of any government getting out ahead of AI is nil.
They haven’t even figured out how to tax capital, without it escaping every time. They’ve been trying for 2,500 years.
So I do agree, it’s gonna be people who tackle this one.
I think it’s almost impossible for small entities to get sufficient data to train powerful models at the moment. But if the models are open source then small entities will have them.
We are 2 years away from having a personalised AI on your smartphone that knows personal information about you and works to serve your interests, you can shun this if you like but you will have a hard time competing with people who embrace it.
We will also have jailbreak versions of AI that exist on Linux devices. These will be easy to set to nefarious / malevolent tasks and bad people will do that.
Including all kinds of blackmail / fraud / threats / criminal activity you can think of.
By 2030 the world will look very different.
The threat level is going vertical and soft targets are going to get hammered.
Expect to see more things like this: https://www.beekeeperai.com/company
Public/Private partnerships whether Universities and Industry or the State and Startups. They will print money in to these in an arms race as that’s how state power is bound to react to an existential threat.
When all you’ve got is a hammer.. Statism will go hard!
Not sure why you need a company to do that? Sounds like a technical issue with data schema and DSP layer.
There’s gonna be a full on bubble and bust of AI companies making dumb promises and then being obsolete minutes after raising capital.
Sell shovels.