I don't want to seem alarmist but Artificial Intelligence is going to kill all of us
Mr. Perfect
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I don't know how many of you listen to Dan Bongino's show. If you don't, you might want to check out yesterday's opening hour or so.
He discusses this Time Magazine article written by an AI expert that has some well-founded and grave fears of AI.
Here is a key excerpt from the expert:
Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not as in “maybe possibly some remote chance,” but as in “that is the obvious thing that would happen.” It’s not that you can’t, in principle, survive creating something much smarter than you; it’s that it would require precision and preparation and new scientific insights, and probably not having AI systems composed of giant inscrutable arrays of fractional numbers.
Bongino highlights several scenarios from the article that it could work out. We've all seen the Terminator movies. That's just robots. "What about the biolabs producing proteins that are the building blocks of life?", AI could hack into it and create the life it wants. What about nanorobots? Do you think it wouldn't be able to control that tech? What about these gain of function viral research labs? Think it couldn't control those? (these things are all in the article... you can read them for yourself). The main point is that the AI doesn't care about humans and the experts working on it don't know how to program it to care about humans.
This is scary stuff. And I want to note, I have always thought creating AI was a bad idea.
Anyway, if that article didn't manage to strike fear into your heart there's this:
Have a great day!
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
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I heard his show yesterday, or most of it. That first hour was a bit of an eye opener, for sure.
Elon Musk warned about this a couple of years ago. Smart man, he.
Seems like lately I am seeing a whole lot of Gloom & Doom over the internet news sites. You would think that the media is trying to scare the crap out of us.
I would agree, however I think man will beat them to it! We are doing a great job of destroying ourselves!
Serf had been posting about it for years.
The Terminator movies predicted and warned folks about this a long time ago . What was once science fiction, think cell phones , video chat etc, are now everyday stuff. Why should Skynet be the exception?
Unfortunately, Isaac Asimov is no longer with us. He described what was necessary back in 1942 with his laws of robotics.
It is kind of amazing, the number of predictions that the imagination of SF writers foretold, that have become reality. Bob
To strike more fear into your heart. Every living thing on this Earth will die sooner or later. AI will probably make it sooner. ------------------------Ray
And the clay pot tells the pot maker what to do.
Part of the point of the article is that the AI creators are saying it's impossible to insert those laws into it.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I guess my point was that we were warned, albeit in a fictional story, 81 years ago and nobody paid attention. If they had stopped 30 years ago and considered then what the consequences might be, perhaps we wouldn't have to be concerned about this today. Once again the law of unintended consequences, brought on by not thinking things through before acting, will probably bite us in the butt. Bob
Back in the early 1990s, I was involved in some early AI developments. Back then it was called Neural Nets (NN) due to the way it operated supposedly mimicking the human brain. Basically, we would input data from a large number of cause variables, and the corresponding effect results. The NN software would crunch and grind, sometimes for a day or two (computers were much slower back then). Eventually the computer would come up with a network that quite accurately predicted the results based on a specific set of inputs. The scary thing was that there was no way a person could comprehend how the NN software obtained it's results, it just did. It was not a program some IT person wrote, there were no lines of code. It just worked and nobody understood why.
AI reminds me of movie made back in the 50s "The Forbidden Planet" The end was frightening with only 2 survivors and a robot.
AI's is the devil
Maybe HAL will save us.
I have not watched the program but will later on
just what I have seen on TV and the internet AI is well beyond amazing and who knows what government has , you know there always a couple steps ahead of us p-ons
I could see some of the science fiction shows coming close to what may happen.
AI is already self-recognizing its self and I have read some of the super computers have developed a code of their own only they know they do control just about every part of our life now
if the computeres do go independent they could easy shut down any system for food fuel ,water well nothing would be safe
the computeres could alsotrigger the necular winter with just a bit of stech on the imaganation scary stuff
I was reading a couple days ago AI can post on social meda and look like live people and its almost impossibe for any one to tell
I suggest we break out the " phased plasma rifle in 40 watt range" 😁
just to be safe
Not "we", they. If only we could expose them all.
Yep. I mean "we" as in the human race.
Well, I'm not running anywhere unless some wild animal is chasing me.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Or a killer robot!
I am using AI based tools regularly at work for a wide range of applications. They haven’t killed me yet.
If they do, I will be sure to have a bot update this post.
Another great band from the late 60s early 70s. Alvin Lee was awesome.
You are alarmist.
That's on you I think.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Nope, my alarm went off. It was set on Mr. P.
It's all 0's and 1's.