• ferret@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Look, I hate AI as much as the next guy, but this article is pointless fear mongering and is based on a flawed understanding of current AI architecture.

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      4 days ago

      Sounds a bit like those Anthropic researchers who keep finding new ways Claude did something unexpected and scary every other week.

      We don’t care whether you’re scared or amazed : TALK ABOUT IT.

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      4 days ago

      As soon as I saw the word “existential”, red flags went up for me, too. I looked, and of course, this is a piece of propaganda molded by a think tank.

      Generously supported by
      the Future of Life Institute

      I’m kind of impressed how paranoid this piece is. I saw some MSM articles about “AIs making a religion” when these "religion"s were described and then discarded, but apparently whoever wrote this just assumed you’d been fed your media slop already, and he could focus on the doomsday scenario.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    For a while I thought maybe the best protest against AI would be to try and get it to escape containment.

    Only in the existential risk scenario would our society bother to lift a finger.

    But I no longer believe we would do anything, as long as the AI contributed to capital markets we’d let it destroy us.

    I feel very depressed and empty today.

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
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    4 days ago

    Checking out of morbid curiosity, but before that, I can’t help but to think, did some government commission the article?