His face makes me uncomfortable
This is just more sales strategy
Really going for that sociopath/pychopath/fascist/nazi/flock demographic.
“We sincerely believe the technology we’re building could destroy humanity”
Excellently business strategy
Their sales strategy is built on their researchers quitting? Like I get the internal tension between biz and engineering but that seems far fetched.
Is that too far removed from reality to imagine given the payout they’re trying to get?
Every time I see Dario, he reminds me of Pat from the 90s movie:
The real danger isn’t a smart AI - the smartest people don’t end up being in charge of our societies. The real danger is having enough control to be able to con most of our society, and seeing how much our societies are willing to continue participating in clearly compromised special interest social networks, I don’t have a lot of faith. Barely a difference if humanity is replaced or just led to the lowest common denominator of exploitation at that point, and that’s where we are heading politically.
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.
There are also rumors, which may be untrue, of a Majestic 12 committee making deals with aliens in exchange for tech. It may be that advances in semi-conductor technology are the “trojan horse,” with AI being a natural and probable consequence of that which was genuinely discovered after the chip advances or with AI first being developed by government and then leaked to the public later via papers and then commercially made public, with the end result making the earth uninhabitable for humans. We also don’t know if aliens and UFOs are merely biological life/advanced travel or if they are some sort of technological/bio hybrid. It’s also possible that these are crazy rumors made up by people who can’t fathom science. I understand the statistical and computational logic of AI, so that doesn’t seem that crazy to me, but sudden semi-conductor advances seem impossible to fathom; but I could just be ignorant. One flaw in an analysis like this is that even without UFOs, aliens, and computers, humans were doing a great job of exponentially obliterating the normal natural environment just based on pollution emissions from cars and other processes.
Who knows?
There’s more than one movie about aliens who use global warming to wipe out humanity. AI data centers seem to be doing just that in more than one way. No need for an alien invader though, even a primitive species adapted for all the nooks and nuances of the environment is far more adept at it, it just needs to be diseased.
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.
Greed is one hell of a drug.
They are simply not in the same league as Einstein, Oppenheimer and Russel.
I ain’t sure they’re even in the same league as Ron Popeil.
That’s actually pretty interesting. I only knew him for those old RonCo infomercials.
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!
I genuinely think that they (and conservatives overall) don’t understand that everyone is different and that most people aren’t our there trying to get one up on everyone else.
unfortunately, if you are big enough as a corporation, by definition you are that kind of organization, or you would not be where you are.
we are ruled by sociopaths who crave power wealth and fame. we are doomed.
100%. Either they don’t understand, or they’re in on the con.
“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit. They’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.” - Elon Musk
I’m convinced that he just needed a good ass kicking when he was 18. I think that would have gone a long way towards squashing that overinflated ego.
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.
Both mindsets are dumb, one ignores the danger, the other is paralized by fear.
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.
Actually looking at practical, realistic solutions instead of just targeting whatever company or CEO you’ve heard bad things about would probably result in better outcomes long term. I see a lot of pure “anti-tech” sentiment around which although understandable isn’t really going to fix anything because at the end of the day the technology exists, Pandora’s box has been opened and you will always have a share of people who will NOT stop using it, for whatever reason.
If you boycott PayPal it’s just going to be replaced by an equivalent service by some other company that might seem better at first but will eventually enshittify like all the other ones. The same could be said about any LLM/AI company. Or any social media company.
I believe to actually “solve” these issues we need regulation. Companies will not stop chasing profits and they won’t stop building data centers just because a minority of people on Lemmy really hate it. Humanity will not simply forget that AI exists just because we “collectively” agree to do so. That didn’t work for the nuclear bomb or global warming, so why would we expect it to work now? On the other hand, if we actually accept that the tech is there now we can actually invest our energy in making the tech compatible with our society (and the planet).
Deprivatize data centers, put them entirely under government oversight and provide strict environmental regulations. Make AI a public utility and require full transparency from its providers. Finance public research of AI and its effects. We should focus on this unless we want to just see a replay of net neutrality and social media algorithms where the companies responsible for doing a huge amount of damage to our society only get a slap on the wrist 10-15 years from now when everyone has already accepted the idea that you can’t have AI without capitalism. Because that idea is exactly the illusion that these companies are trying to sell right now, but it’s simply not the truth.
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.
