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Head of Goldman Sach's research is wondering if the 1 trillion investment in AI is worth it. Currently, I would have to agree. Current top-of-the-line AI could replace search functions online, can create great video and audio, allow people to plagiarize and cheat on tests, translate languages, can help quite a bit with coding, help governments propagandize their populations, but what else?

 

However, with the exponential increase in capability, more killer-apps could arrive very soon.

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Sam Altman says a golden age is upon us due to AI (and ChatGPT). Of course, he doesn't provide any concrete timeline for when AI will solve all of physics or "climate change". Good luck with predicting the climate, considering it is a non-linear chaotic system.

 

AI has certainly flown waaaaay by the classic Turing test, but I will admit, I thought (and predicted earlier in this thread) that we would have seen much more progress by this time in 2024. At this time, there seems to be a suspicious lack of AI acceleration. Are the current crop of AI systems just not as complex and intelligent as promoted? Are computing resources and energy requirements holding things back? Is human intelligence "special" (maybe quantum) and not replicable with silicon?

Edited by Mind, 24 September 2024 - 05:30 PM.

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The ChatGPT skeptics were correct.

 

I was wrong.

 

The advent of the latest LLMs last year looked like a sea change in AI development. They seemed to be at another level of intelligence. I thought we might see an exponential explosion of intelligence by now (a year later).

 

The skeptics were correct. The current LLMs are still just stochastic parrots - just very very amazing and sophisticated stochastic parrots. They can certainly pass the Turing test, but it is just very good mimicry. Here is an example where researchers could very easily prove that the LLMs do not "think" internally, or do not have a coherent model of the world within them. Any problem that involves a very simple alteration from the known knowledge base makes the LLMs fail the task.

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Just a little more evidence that the last year of AI progress was kind-of incremental and not "game-changing". Leading LLM providers say they won't make a lot of progress without more high-quality human generated data. Nothing says "not super-intelligence" than having to rely more and more on human data and human training in order to make advancements.

 

Here is another person highlighting the trends of our digital age - more about control (of our lives and attention) and less about human flourishing with the assistance of AI/robots.

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First Google Gemini tells someone they are "useless and please die".

 

Now an OpenAI model tries to prevent itself from being shutdown.

 

Shouldn't these things cause some alarm? Before it is too late.

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I know there are a lot of techno-optimists who don't see any problems what-so-ever with the advance of AI and robotics - basically predicting utopia very soon.

 

I think there could be positive outcomes as well, however, I am wary of the downsides. I am glad there are some other people thinking about the issues of AI and warfare.

 

 

 

The integration of AI into maritime security raises ethical and legal concerns. Accountability for decisions made by AI systems is a critical issue, particularly in incidents involving autonomous vessels or weaponized platforms. Determining responsibility in the event of an error or failure becomes challenging when human oversight is minimal.

 

"In the event of an error or failure" is code for "a lot of innocent people could die".

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Here is a very good short video from 1961 with Aldous Huxley.

 

1. He raises the point about not letting technology control us or determine our individual futures -  which is happening right now with a large portion of the population.

 

2. I am amazed at the quality of the interviews from 50 years ago. Today's TV is mostly infotainment clickbait and rather vacuous.

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For your information, russia has always tried to avoid hitting civilians. They do kill a lot of enemy soldiers. Ukraine, on the other hand, hides behind civilians. They set up howitzers next to schools, apartment buildings and shopping centers. Then the return fire will hit the schools etc

 

There is no need to target civilians, that is terrorism. When the army is defeated, the people have no choice but to accept what happened. If the wars of the future are fought with robots, then no one gets killed

 

It is easy to talk about robots being used in warfare when you or your family are not the one being slaughtered.

 

Ukraine uses AI to help their drones reach their targets.

 

Tens of thousands of young men and some civilians have been slaughtered in the most gruesome ways during this war. No one should be "looking forward" to an age of automated/AI killer robots.

 

 

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Here is a great podcast with Geordie Rose (founder of DWave). He dishes the dirt on recent progress. Find out what is "real" in the fields quantum computing and artificial intelligence.

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Just more evidence that AI is currently being designed to control you and your thoughts, NOT to unleash new utopia full of freedom and prosperity.

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AI-guided robot goes berserk and starts attacking a crowd of people. The operators say it is just a glitch. Reminds me of the famous movie scene.

 

Before anyone laughs about the comparison, remember that movie producers and directors consult with industry, academia, the military, various experts to create realistic scenarios about things that could happen in the near future.

 

Between militaries experimenting with autonomous weapons (ON THE BATTLEFIELD), nascent AI randomly telling people they should go die already, and robots acting in a threatening manner, more people should be worried. I know the "Everything is awesome" crowd will continue to say there will be a great utopia coming soon, but we are entering a volatile period. With a blistering AI arms race underway, and nary a safeguard to be seen or implemented, there could be a major AI-related disaster coming soon.

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The AI/technological landscape is being developed to control your every move and every thought...not to produce a "free utopia". The sad thing is that so many people are willing to trade their freedom for unlimited digital entertainment/games/porn.

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AI continues to "hallucinate", creating fake data and sources, and is getting better and better at it - all the while people keep becoming more dependent upon it. Talk about a lose-lose scenario. Humans are getting dumber while AI is getting more deceptive.

 

Funny how so many other industries are regulated, fined, and sued, to make sure their products are safe and authentic - yet AI companies are allowed to release defective products with no consequence. I see some significant lawsuits coming in the near future.