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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by true_religion on Saturday November 18, 2023 @08:42PM (#38327397)
What if AI self improvement is not exponential?

We assume a self improving AI will lead to some runaway intelligence improvement but if it grows at 1% per year or even per month that’s something we can adapt to.

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by devbent on Sunday November 19, 2023 @01:58AM (#38329944)
Assume the AGI has access to a credit card and it goes ahead and reserves itself every GPU cycle in existence so it's 1 month is turned into a day, and now we're back to being fucked.

Maybe an ongoing GPU shortage is the only thing that'll save us!

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by sicariusnoctis on Sunday November 19, 2023 @03:45AM (#38330569)
How would an AGI gain access to an unlimited credit card that immediately gives it remote access to all GPUs in the world?
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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by JetSpiegel on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:30AM (#38334182)
It could hack into NVIDIA and AMD, compromise their firmware build machines silently, then publish a GPU vulnerability that required firmware updates.

After a couple months, turn on the backdoor.

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by veidr on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:52AM (#38334526)
E.g. by convincing 35% of this website's users to "subscribe" to its "service"?

¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

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