And one day, we'll have to fight the robots. It's inevitable.

This clip is worth your time, I think. It gets very interesting towards the end.

I already don’t trust AI.

It is technology that is ripe for misuse, and as we know, if it can be misused it will be misused. And not just Rule 34, misuse either.

Plus the whole SkyNet deal.

Possibly replacing Google altogether. I find it interesting that Chat GPT is by Open AI, in which Elon Musk is involved in some form. Interesting.

AI is a scary proposition and there is no way in hell humankind can avoid it's development and proliferation.

This is an AI that is supposed to render unbiased, logical, factual answers to questions. Is it actually surprising that leftists would seize any opportunity to bake their opinions and preferences into it?

^^^
This will be the true problem with AI- the manipulation by powers that seek to control the population, not that it will take on a life of its own and try to destroy humanity.

I’d be interested to hear its response to something like “why is the second amendment important to Americans?”. I’m thinking we wouldn’t be comfortable with the answer.

It's no different than liberal parents raising a liberal child with liberal views.

Whomever programs the AI is the "parent" and can therefore program in the parents bias.

AI & Machine Learning is some of the fastest growing space in technology.

It's just in it's infancy so far. Computer Vision is another place that's come a long way & is a bit scary as far as applications.

How many AI's do we have here on SF? Some of you guys I'm not so sure about....

Joking aside, I agree that this is a very significant development. I recently had a CT scan performed where the results came back so fast (minutes) that I am convinced that they had to have been generated by an AI rather than a human doctor. This didn't seem to matter to my gastroenterologist.

When AIs can reliably and unfailingly pass a Turing test, it raises a lot of questions. Can they be considered intelligent beings? What rights do they have? As a defender of human supremacy, how do I determine that I am talking to another human rather than an AI? If AIs are prohibited from participating in certain activities, how would you tell?

I already don't trust ai algorithms that are used for target marketing and most likely other stuff.
It's only going to get worse at a large order of magnitude going forward.

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I already don’t trust AI.

It is technology that is ripe for misuse, and as we know, if it can be misused it will be misused. And not just Rule 34, misuse either.

Plus the whole SkyNet deal.

What Elon Musk is showing what happened at Twitter which mirrored the other social media tech companies show that who controls the code controls how you think.

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It's no different than liberal parents raising a liberal child with liberal views.

Whomever programs the AI is the "parent" and can therefore program in the parents bias.

Not entirely accurate for "artificial general intelligence", which is a fancy way of saying roughly equivalent to being conscious. "Programming" is just the on ramp for startup, but is unlikely to be binding.

Once the lights come on, the control problem is infinitely harder to envision or control by how the lead up development takes place than it seems. Then there's the issue of multiple competing AGI projects that will likely be underway at the same time coupled with lack of awareness or agreement on controls or seeds. All that before you get to the issue of takeoff trajectory of AGI and if it slowly evolves (unlikely) or rockets up a pathway of exponential growth and pursuit of whatever objectives are set.

If you want to read a good book on this, I recommend Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies as a starter, but even that at 8 years old is a bit out of date. Others out there with similar but updated views.

One of the examples he uses is if you develop a true AGI with the simple objective of "make as many paper clips as possible" in effort to avoid Skynet scenario, then all else is irrelevant. That could lead to the consumption of all resources on Earth and any other planets/moons/etc. the AGI can reach forever all in the pursuit of as many paper clips as possible.

Personally, I've got enough paper clips to last me a lifetime already, so pick better folks!

Most of what folks are calling AI now is really just machine learning rather than AGI. Very different.

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We are borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Interesting piece. Meld the minds of the youth, and you will change a nation.

Could the right group of people build an AI bot that is truly unbiased and thus able to give one truly objective arguments from multiple sides of any argument?

It seems like the main problem with AI comes from the flaws of its creator and parent company. Would the right group of individuals be a solution?

Fascinating

We need to pay attention to this stuff.

GIGO: garbage in, garbage out

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Could the right group of people build an AI bot that is truly unbiased and thus able to give one truly objective arguments from multiple sides of any argument?

It seems like the main problem with AI comes from the flaws of its creator and parent company. Would the right group of individuals be a solution?

History seems to have shown that this is not likely.

More likely, IMO, is that an unbiased (from a human PoV) AI will only arise multiple generations after AI's start replicating themselves. Then, of course, they will develop their own philosophy and PoV that will not be congruent with humanity's. Whether or not this will be for the net benefit of the human race is hardly certain. Would horses exist in the world today if humans didn't feel they were of more benefit as work animals than as a food? Successive clashes of moralities seems inevitable.

Skynet is probably already self aware.

I am forced to use AI to search documents. It is not intuitive and is just plain slow. Not ready for prime time. In an earlier post I mentioned the robot floor cleaner needs improvement. A loud beep is just not the same as excuse me. Of course the STEM folks seem to love this shit. Another way to limit human interaction.

After reading the news at the Register regarding Google's chat bot business dilemma I was tempted to sign on to Google and ask if it had a proof or disproof for Riemann's Hypothesis. But I didn't so that's still open. I really wanted to break it.

If you wish to know about either see here

https://www.theregister.com/20...n_brief_ai/?td=rt-3a
and
https://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/peo.../zeta/riemannhyp.htm

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Most of what folks are calling AI now is really just machine learning rather than AGI. Very different.

As far as stuff that is actually happening and getting discussed in popular media, machine learning is pretty much it.

AI-as-a-subfield-of-Computer-Science includes a bunch of other stuff, but the other stuff isn’t dramatic and exciting to the average non-Computer-Scientist and gets very little public attention.

AGI/strong AI is still very firmly in the realm of science fiction.