Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by ben_w on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:00AM
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> Nobody is doing anything, nobody seems to care, everyone cheats
While there is indeed a lot of cheating, there's also over a terawatt (peak) of PV capacity.
It's a long way from "nothing" or "not caring".
> It's likely the planet will become hostile to (human) life long before AI will be able to do us any harm.
Depends what you mean by hostile — most of the planet already was before the industrial revolution, some will get moreso over the next few decades, but it's not a boolean.
And harm? Again, not really a boolean.
GOFAI-era had Therac-25, but if you don't like to count that and it has to be a neural net, then how about the algorithmic promotion of misinformation on (not necessarily by) YouTube, Facebook, and Google? Deaths from imperfect self driving cars? Discovery of novel deadly neurotoxins by, essentially, flipping an evil bit, which got in the news this time last year?: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9
While there is indeed a lot of cheating, there's also over a terawatt (peak) of PV capacity.
It's a long way from "nothing" or "not caring".
> It's likely the planet will become hostile to (human) life long before AI will be able to do us any harm.
Depends what you mean by hostile — most of the planet already was before the industrial revolution, some will get moreso over the next few decades, but it's not a boolean.
And harm? Again, not really a boolean.
GOFAI-era had Therac-25, but if you don't like to count that and it has to be a neural net, then how about the algorithmic promotion of misinformation on (not necessarily by) YouTube, Facebook, and Google? Deaths from imperfect self driving cars? Discovery of novel deadly neurotoxins by, essentially, flipping an evil bit, which got in the news this time last year?: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9