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⚠️ If this many in the AI industry are concerned, maybe we should listen 🤔

“Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than a decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of A.I. A part of him, he said, now regrets his life’s work.”

“But gnawing at many industry insiders is a fear that they are releasing something dangerous into the wild. Generative A.I. can already be a tool for misinformation. Soon, it could be a risk to jobs. Somewhere down the line, tech’s biggest worriers say, it could be a risk to humanity.”

“Until last year, he said, Google acted as a “proper steward” for the technology, careful not to release something that might cause harm. But now that Microsoft has augmented its Bing search engine with a chatbot — challenging Google’s core business — Google is racing to deploy the same kind of technology.”

#OpenAI #AI #DeepMind #ChatGPT

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html

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Paul 2y ago

Cat’s out of the bag, just like ₿itcoin. There’s no turning back due to game theory playing out.

I see these 3 end game options:

1. AI kills us all.

2. AI and humans merge.

3. AI becomes so intelligent it has nothing in common with humans and just leaves.*

*When is the last time humanity cared or conferred with chimpanzees about their thoughts?

Geist 2y ago

I think these calls are coming from people who have identified either a profitable grift, or a way of imposing anticompetitive regulations. The sound money thesis is practically built on observations that our workforce has become inundated with bullshit jobs that are a parasitic drain on everyone's quality of life. Many things could lead to widespread layoffs, such as a less restrictive regulatory environment, a recession, or hyperbitcoinization, I would not consider the loss of the bullshit jobs to be a net positive for everyone.

Geist 2y ago

Errr, the loss of these jobs would be a net positive.