Artificial Intelligence

[Tero]

How soon till AI is wanking to pictures of sexy computers from the other corporation?

[Tero]

Visual presentation of language models
https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

[Brian Peacock]

LLM's are part of the mechanism of humanesque thought that exceeds human thinking. More likely to be fifty years than five years away from a proper human like thinking machine. Not to say it won't be achieved. But like fusion, these fifty years problems tend to be always fifty years away from their solution. Maybe one day - nobody predicted the current situation so the future is a gamble....and maybe one day after we've all passed on

Being human involves more than thought.

[Svartalf]

How soon till AI is wanking to pictures of sexy computers from the other corporation?

ai don't have a body, and are therefore incapable of wanking, even if they could come up with the possibility, which they can't, or desire to do it, which they can't either since they have no personality, and thus no desire.

[aufbahrung]

lack of personality never stopped a entity from self-stimulation

[Svartalf]

takes an entity with actual self awareness to some degree and an ability to actually be stimulated to enjoy and engage in self stimulation.

[Tero]

The AI systems seem to be told to do the tasks we type in. But there seems to some sort of reward built in. Not likely comparable to feeling, but it can be a feature. Something that cannot be removed.

[pErvinalia]

The Intelligence Curse

We will soon live in the intelligence age. What you do with that information will determine your place in history.

The imminent arrival of AGI has pushed many to try to seize the levers of power as quickly as possible, leaping towards projects that, if successful, would comprehensively automate all work. There is a trillion-dollar arms race to see who can achieve such a capability first, with trillions more in gains to be won.

Yes, that means you’ll lose your job. But it goes beyond that: this will remove the need for regular people in our economy. Powerful actors—like states and companies—no longer have an incentive to care about regular people. We call this the intelligence curse.

If we do nothing, the intelligence curse will work like this:

Powerful AI will push automation through existing organizations, starting from the bottom and moving to the top.
AI will obsolete even outlier human talent. Social mobility will stop, ending the social dynamism and progress that it drives.
Non-human factors of production, like capital, resources, and control over AI, will become overwhelmingly more important than humans.
This will usher in incentives for powerful actors around the world that break the modern social contract.
This could result in the gradual—or sudden—disempowerment of the vast majority of humanity.
But this prophecy is not yet fulfilled; we reject the view that this path is inevitable. We see a different future on the horizon, but it will require a deliberate and concerted effort to achieve it.

We aim to change the incentives driving the intelligence curse, maintaining human economic relevance and strengthening our democratic institutions to withstand what will likely be the greatest societal disruption in history.

To break the intelligence curse, we should chart a different path on the tech tree, building technology that lets us:

Avert AI catastrophes by hardening the world against them, both because it is good in itself and because it removes the security threats that drive calls for centralization.
Diffuse AI, to get it in the hands of regular people. In the short-term, build AI that augments human capabilities. In the long-term, align AI directly to individual users and give everyone control in the AI economy.
Democratize institutions, making them more anchored to the needs of humans even as they are buffeted by the changing incentive landscape and fast-moving events of the AGI transition.
In this series of essays, we examine the incoming crisis of human irrelevance and provide a map towards a future where people remain the masters of their destiny.

[pErvinalia]

Pretty much how I see it going from a political/social aspect. And that doesn't even touch on rogue AI, or good AI - bad actors.

[JimC]

Bad AI kills all humans without remorse.

Good AI keeps a few of us as amusing pets...

[pErvinalia]

I wonder if we can use AI to influence the process. An insurgent campaign in the mould of disinformation bots from Russia.