If I were an alien invader, with superior technology, and I was trying to exterminate an indigenous species without getting my hands dirty (or from far away), I might plant something similar to the current LLM/AI + military robots craze.
Distribute free sex robots and humanity would depopulate within two generations. Even better if the humans don’t know they are robots and believe they are an actually human who the humans think they are in a legitimate relationship with. Zero bloodshed takeover.
And yet, they just keep going. I will never understand these people.
Because if they don’t, someone else will. Their logic is: If somebody is going to burn down the world, it may as well be me!
Just another case of genAI psychosis not too dissimilar to the one gøøgle employee who maybe a year or two back thought their genAI was alive. I’m infinitely more worried we will destroy ourselves due to climate change caused by the AI data centers long before genAI even has the ability to think on its own.
Yeah you are not going to get general AI from an LLM. What would destroy the world is people not thinking and letting these LLMs blindly make choices. Oh wait, yeah we might be fucked.
From the creator of Don’t Create The Torment Nexus comes a new tale: Stop Building The Thing That Could Kill Us All
Doomers unite.
Remember folks, we are a spec on a dot in the universe. It will all be ok.
I think it’s time to start discussing what steps we can take from this point onward. People are, including myself are tired of being treated like a fucking worm in this system and all I see is unify, let’s unify, it’s time that we unify… What are the steps we can actually take? I wrote in another topic I can teach people how to go after PayPal and other big tech hypocrites through regulatory bodies that I got positive results from. Let’s discuss what we can do destroy the public image of these two faced criminals. They can always earn more money, but you can’t buy public image with your money, remember guys.
The universe will be ok. But what about me?! I’d at least like to be a cautionary tale!
This guy quit dramatically, others haven’t slammed their jobs yet, and even if countries agree to limits, will their militaries and businesses? Some countries won’t agree, and at the rate they say it’s approaching danger, may not slow it much from job defection. Could ask an llm to estimate what % of talent loss could impede its progress to take over.
Ask an L l m,
Estimate what percent to,
Stop its take over
Have any chinese frontier AI researchers quit in a similar fashion?
We all know. Everyone on Earth knew we were doomed the moment robot dogs started patrolling. It will be horrifying, we’ll look back on World War II and think “those were the good old days”.
Just don’t use chatbots or image generators and you’re fine.
It’s more about the military applications that they’re developing right now.
lol, literally got fwded two tweets by seperate anthropic employees that copypasta-d each other’s “sincere personal message” (both accenting how it’s “not a marketing stunt!”)… how dumb is this gonna get before it finally blows over?
That dude smiles like Mr. Beast.
If they ever make a docudrama about AI like The Social Network, Matthew Rhys is a lock for Dario Amodei.
They are and Andrew Garfield is playing Sam Altman. Don’t know if Amodei will be in it.
They should cast Jesse Plemons as Amodei. He would absolutely boss it
I know these people believe what they’re saying but what they’re saying isn’t true. If you genuinely 100% truly believed that you were building a bomb that would blow you up you would stop making it. No amount of financial incentive can convince you to create something that you wholeheartedly believe will destroy you.
The various AI companies just use the threat of human extinction as an advertising gimmick and it’s getting pathetic. You cannot continuously announce that you’ve invented AGI every three months for several years straight and maintain any kind of credibility.
you genuinely 100% truly believed that you were building a bomb that would blow you up you would stop making it.
Utterly absurd claim.
It’s been proven wrong for decades, repeatedly. You can’t possibly be more wrong. This is as wrong as wrong gets.
Look at history of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
that would blow you up
Emphasis mine. Sure, chuds are fine to take money for bombs used on other people, but if you genuinely believed you were working on your own doomsday?
Don’t tell that to Elon, full self driving is just a year away!
No amount of financial incentive can convince you to create something that you wholeheartedly believe will destroy you.
Nuclear weapons. Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine.
The various AI companies just use the threat of human extinction as an advertising gimmick
But it’s kinda true… we’re well on a path of societal breakdown driven by environmental and economic collapse
I’m not sure whether I’d say your first paragraph overestimates or underestimates people but I disagree with that premise. The fact that there exists people who willingly take their own life is a counter example, and I’d say that it would be a slow suicide (as in the work they do isn’t going to immediately cause them harm makes it even easier, even if they see the eventual harm as inevitable.
Personally, I think the idea of AGI is dangled to build credibility for future attacks to be blamed on a rogue AI system. After which, the ones who really control the AI will come in and “fight” it and be treated like heroes, with repeats happening coincidentally when people start getting tired of shit again and need to be reminded about how the rulers saved them.
“The people building [data centers] earnestly believe that [they] could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon wrote in that same post.
FTFY
If i figure out i am building my own gallows, believe me, I am done building. These AI propagating people are legitimately morons. Super glad we get to cohabitate this spacetime with them.
