Posted on 05/30/2023 6:06:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind.
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement said.
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, were among the hundreds of leading figures who signed the statement, which was posted on the Center for AI Safety’s website.
Worries about artificial intelligence systems outsmarting humans and running wild have intensified with the rise of a new generation of highly capable AI chatbots such as ChatGPT. It has sent countries around the world scrambling to come up with regulations for the developing technology, with the European Union blazing the trail with its AI Act expected to be approved later this year. …
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ESPECIALLY when the Leftist give it a Satanic back plane.
As long as critical infrastructure is disconnected from the Internet by an airgap and the powers that be don’t rely on AI for advice, we’ll be fine. But then, practically everything is connected to the Internet.
This article is 100% about big tech trying to freeze out any annoying startups that might challenge their profits.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel: 12:4. KJV
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I'm not. What you see is an illusion. ;O)
What movie is that from?
Terminator 2
Steven J. Hawking predicted AI squashing humanity by about 2050.
Ass Press.
So does stupidity. Pick yer poison.
If it’s programmed by godless depopulationist climate-crazed Commies, AI is guaranteed to recommend human extinction.
I have good news and bad news.
The bad news is that humans are going extinct.
The good news is that climate change is no longer a problem.
AI is not sentient.
It cannot BE sentient.
I am not worried.
The Economist
Why tech giants want to strangle AI with red tape
They want to hold back open-source competitors
May 25, 2023
https://www.economist.com/business/2023/05/25/why-tech-giants-want-to-strangle-ai-with-red-tape
All AI would need to wreak havoc would be the ability to send email and scan the Internet. By scanning the Internet it could “dig up dirt”, and by sending email it could extort humans to do its bidding.
Extinction seems improbable.
AI will most likely loose interest in humans and allow a significant number of breeding pairs to exist indefinitely in a more or less natural state in the tropics.
Human IQ has been rising by about 3 points per decade, while computers have gone from 0 to 100 in less than 50 years. At the current rate of increase for AI, humans will be to AI as animals are to humans within a few decades.
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