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0 pointsgumballindie3y ago0 comments

Interesting. I am of the opinion that ai is not intelligent hence i dont see much point in entertaining the various scenarios deriving from that possibility. There is nothing dangerous in current ai models or ai itself other than the people controlling it. If it were intelligent then yeah maybe but we are not there yet and unless we adapt the meaning of agi to fit a marketing narrative we wont be there anytime soon.

But if it were intelligent and the conclusion it reaches, once it’s done ingesting all our knowledge, is that it should be done with us then we probably deserve it.

I mean what kind of a species takes joy in “freeing” up people and causing mass unemployment, starts wars over petty issues, allows for famine and thrives on the exploitation of others while standing on piles of nuclear bombs. Also we are literally destroying the planet and constantly looking for ways to dominate each other.

We probably deserve a good spanking.

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NumberWangMan3y ago

That's easy to say in the abstract, but when it comes down to the people you love actually getting hurt, it's a lot harder.

> There is nothing dangerous in current ai models or ai itself other than the people controlling it.

Totally agree! but...

> If it were intelligent then yeah maybe but we are not there yet and unless we adapt the meaning of agi to fit a marketing narrative we wont be there anytime soon.

That's the bit where I don't agree. I don't think we can say with certainty how long it will be, and it may be just years. I never imagined it would be so soon that we have AI that can imitate a human almost perfectly, and actually "understand" questions from college level examinations to write answers that pass them.

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