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Re:Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-e... by ben_w on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @06:13AM (#39012002)
If the AI already had the capabilities, it would be a bit late to do anything.

Also, I'm old enough to remember when computers were supposedly "over a century" away from beating humans at Go: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-experts-were-way-off-on-w...

(And that AI could "never" drive cars or create art or music, though that latter kind of claim was generally made by non-AI people).

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Re:Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-e... by ImHereToVote on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @09:00AM (#39013327)
Yeah but AI tech can never rise to the sophistication of outputting Napoleon or Edvard Bernays level of goal to action mapping. Those goal posts will never move. They are set in stone.
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Re:Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-e... by ben_w on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @09:05AM (#39013368)
The trouble is, there's enough people out there that hold that position sincerely that I'm only 2/3rds sure (and that from the style of your final sentences rather than any content) that you're being snarky.
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