Re:Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It ...
by ldhough on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:03AM
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> Intelligent ? Hardly.
"Intelligent but not wise" might be a bit more fair. A dangerous combination imo. Even if malignant AGI doesn't happen most of the recent advances seem to me to be much more likely to cause harm to society than to benefit it, at least in the short-medium term.
Look at MidJourney, now they've had to remove the free tier due to Deepfakes causing too much trouble.
Ultimately, the simplest thing to do would be to stop building uncontrollable dangerous systems and weapons. That is what any "intelligent" species would do. Many AI Engineers think they're intelligent, I disagree. They're operating out of pure intellect and curiosity. When interviewed, someone asks them how they plan to stop these things doing immeasurable damage, they will say, "we don't know yet". That is foolish behavior.
We seem to enjoy creating crisis after crisis, anxiety after anxiety ad infinitum until we make that one mistake we don't come back from.
The combustion engine was a good idea, until it wasn't, it's a moronic invention that has caused untold damage.
Intelligent ? Hardly.