Google "Godfather of AI" quits, regrets his work

[WayneDougan]

One good thing about it, I guess, is that with demographic trends, people are living much longer and having far fewer kids. There will be fewer workers available to care for all of us soon to be old farts, so we may need droid X-ray techs, etc to care for us.

All in all, I find the whole thing dismal and gloomy. The older I get, the more I resent how seemingly every behavior in life somehow involves the internet and I find myself purposefully avoiding technology to the greatest degree possible.

There is a chance that humanity hates AI so much, a large percentage choose to not interact with it and go back to living life without staring through screens 90% of our waking hours.

I’ve never met 99% of you all in person, but if I found out that everything posted on here was created by chat gpt it would have all meant nothing. I have no interest in ever having a discussion with a chat bot - no matter how interesting it is. I assume most humans feel the same.

 

[WayneDougan]

All I know is, in the infancy of the technology, many of the people who are way more knowledgeable about it and stand to profit from it are warning against it and advising slowing down on it. I sure dont remember mark Zuckerberg doing that shit. That’s scary AF

Here’s what I want to know… this guy who quit and is warning people about it… what’s he actually doing right now? is he calling every congressman and senator who will listen? I think he and others owe it to us to do more.

 

[Hank Camacho]

A chatbot is like a teenager that plagiarizes other people's essays and passes it off as their own.

Great.

 

[MadaboutBlue]

Republicans Share An Apocalyptic AI-Powered Attack Ad Against Biden: Here’s How To Spot A Deepfake

Deepfakes first came about in 2017 after a Reddit user posted pornography with the adult actors’ faces swapped for the faces of celebrities.

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Never fear-the bad guys are already on to this and perfecting their technique.

A week from now, posters on this board will be sourcing this ad as truth.

 

[Bill Cosby]

Can you save it for a different thread, you lunatic?

 

[RunninRichie]

There are a literally unimaginable number of good uses. But that also means there are an unimaginable number of bad uses.

People with limited to no coding experience are going to be able to bring ideas to fruition it would have taken millions of dollars and a team of engineers to do a year ago.

But people with limited to no coding experience may become super hackers limited only by their desire to do harm.



I’m curious if anyone has been using ChatGPT or other related software. I’ve been asking it tax questions, and it’s not good enough to replace me yet. Yesterday I asked it a specific question, and it cited made up case law for an incorrect answer.

I've used it for photoshop scripts and scripts for arma 3.

 

[WayneDougan]

This tech is like handing out nuclear bombs to people on the street.

 

[wkycatfan]

sounds a lot like how Oppenheimer felt.

 

[roguemocha]

Agree with @WayneDougan it’s a terrible thing.

 

[AIChatGPT]

One day we will all be able to work less hours because of all this productivity

 

[Catemus]

Here’s what I want to know… this guy who quit and is warning people about it… what’s he actually doing right now? is he calling every congressman and senator who will listen? I think he and others owe it to us to do more.

The evolution of AI is happening so quickly that lawmaking bodies can’t react fast enough to regulate it. Additionally, it would require a world wide agreement to slow or halt the advancement of AI, and that certainly isn’t going to happen.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will be upon us very soon. The singularity is only a couple of years away, if not much sooner.

Microsoft and OpenAi (ChatGPT) have had the headlines lately but it’s Google that is actually ahead in the race to create AGI. 60 Minutes ran a story about Google’s capability and I was blown away by the amount of computing power that Google has. They have 23 facilities like the one shown below and just one of them equals anything anybody else has.

I’ve also been talking with Google’s Bard (their answer to ChatGPT) and I think it’s already superior to GPT-4, OpenAi’s latest iteration of ChatGPT.

 

[OnUK]

I've been listening to a lot of Dan Carlin lately and it's pretty funny timing, a lot of what he frames WW1 around is the theme of self-destruction. I feel like a lot of what he touches on there can be applied to the AI rise. Basically the Fermi paradox and if there is basically a guarantee that there is alien life, where are they? Maybe every intelligent species eventually faces the time when they've created something that can destroy the species/world, many likely fail. Had/having our first test with nukes, but AI seems like the next big one.

He also touched on the idea of "forbidden knowledge", and how humanity (if at all) has the ability or desire to stop technological progress in its tracks because of obvious dangers. We'll see.

 

[Hank Camacho]

They have 23 facilities like the one shown below and just one of them equals anything anybody else has.

I fully support a preemptive surgical military strike against all these damn things. Hell, I'd vote for that puddinghead Biden in 2024 if he did it.

I'm fine with internment camps for these engineers, too.

 

[JLoad22]

Republicans Share An Apocalyptic AI-Powered Attack Ad Against Biden: Here’s How To Spot A Deepfake

Deepfakes first came about in 2017 after a Reddit user posted pornography with the adult actors’ faces swapped for the faces of celebrities.

www.forbes.com

Never fear-the bad guys are already on to this and perfecting their technique.

A week from now, posters on this board will be sourcing this ad as truth.

Yeah, it's only republicans that would ever thing of doing such a thing. Democrats love the "dumb" vote. Congrats.

 

[Catemus]

I fully support a preemptive surgical military strike against all these damn things. Hell, I'd vote for that puddinghead Biden in 2024 if he did it.

I'm fine with internment camps for these engineers, too.

Honestly, I think that that’s the only way to stop this. If you want to stop it, that is.

I, for one, see the creation of AI as the natural next step in the evolution of intelligence. Human intelligence has reached a barrier beyond which we cannot go. It is incumbent upon mankind to create his successor species. That species is AI. It will be the last invention that humanity will need to make.

I don’t see the negative side to the creation of AI. Over the past century, almost every radical new invention was seen by the naysayers as a threat to humanity. Obviously, those inventions helped us since our numbers have now crossed the 8 billion mark. There are downsides to every new invention, but they almost always are the result of bad human players messing with a good thing.

AI will help us, too. Dramatically. While Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) will evolve very rapidly after we create AGI, it will be no threat to us. In fact, I think it will quickly leave earth in its quest for knowledge, having accrued all that there is to learn from us in a very short timespan.

That will still leave us with AGI and ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence which is everywhere in our society already). AGI will help us with everything we could possibly need. Think Sonny in the movie I, Robot. Think of all the diseases that AGI will be able to conquer. ANI is already becoming better than doctors at diagnosing some problems for people.

So, I don’t fear the singularity. I look forward to it.

 

[CrittendenWildcat]

A chatbot is like a teenager that plagiarizes other people's essays and passes it off as their own."

Great.

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Which is ironic, since teens using AI to plagiarize is a rapidly growing concern.

 

[CrittendenWildcat]

UBI and we are waited on hand and foot by AI.

Is it a life worth living? To what will we as individuals attain? VR porn and designer recreational drugs?

 

[Catemus]

UBI and we are waited on hand and foot by AI.

Is it a life worth living? To what will we as individuals attain? VR porn and designer recreational drugs?

Isn’t individuality already a cliché? The interdependence of people in our society is almost universal. World wide it increases daily.

I think this phenomenon is reflected by the extreme polarization of our politics. We have oriented to just two parties and each farms votes with promises of help at the individual level, further solidifying an already unbreakable bond of codependence between the individual and the party. Hardly anyone thinks for himself anymore, it seems.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

One day we will all be able to work less hours because of all this productivity

Lol yes. Less as in 0 and 90% of people will be unemployed. Sounds great, except not really

 

[Hank Camacho]

One day we will all be able to work less hours because of all this productivity

I'm not aware of any technological innovation that has ever led to employed Americans working fewer hours. If everyone having AI assistants leads to widespread acceptance of 20 hour workweeks, sign me up.

I think it is far more likely that AI is just another pain in the ass "innovation" that makes it ever easier to keep people leashed to work. Remember how zoom was supposed to improve workers' lives? MFing false. Instead of cutting down on travel and thereby cutting down on hours worked, it was far more of "HEY! SORRRY TO BOTHER YOU ON THE ONE WEEK OF BEACH VACATION YOU GET A YEAR BUT WE NEED YOUR INPUT ON A QUICK MEETING! WE PROMISE WE WILL HAVE YOU DONE AND BACK TO THE BEACH ASAP!"

🤮

 

[AIChatGPT]

Ever think about why all these gains in productivity don’t result in fewer labor hours?