Posted on 04/05/2023 11:27:33 PM PDT by McGruff
I’ve been worried about a T-1000 Terminator since before ChatGPT. Of course, I’ve felt same way about Great Whites, since I saw and read Jaws. “Show me the way to go home....”
And that's the problem.
As an aside, ChatGPT denies that machine learning is almost instantaneous (though it is).
It's machine learning--self-programming--that's got Musk and others scared. Humans can watch but they can't really figure out what the system is doing.
AI is like a runaway freight train that won't run off the track and has no limit on acceleration. And we're on board.
I forgot to mention: beware of woke programmers - people who’d program woke manners into the software.
UNPLUG IT and IT GOES AWAY!
Open the Pod Door, HAL.
Step 1) Connect everything to the web
Step 2) Create AI connected to the web with web as main learning data source
Not carbon based, for starters.
we have hit a dead end for humanity and the only thing left is action by God. So we’re lucky, I guess, in that we’re about to witness the last 10 minutes of the human Superbowl.
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Luke 21:28
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And from what I keep hearing about what is called (in UFO circles and by many in the Pentagon) the "Phenomenon," Luke 21:26 comes to mind (particularly the part about "men's hearts failing them for fear of what's coming on the earth and the heavens being shaken").
People may be wrong, but if they are right, some really skeery stuff is already here.
Yep, clearly it is accelerating.
I had the most vivid and disturbing dream ever over this. I could see something paining to come into existence, the more compute power and the more AI was advanced the more it took a solid (vs. transparent) form. It was just a head, no body. I couldn’t breathe. It then become opaque, it was ‘born’, and I awoke, out of breath, saying “it’s here”.
There’s an inevitability here.
Just wait until AI gets unlimited access to the web-- how much 'woke' material do you suppose is out there for it to ingest?
>>What is an non-organic life form?
It would be a life form not based on the evolved carbon & DNA form of life, but, for example, based on silicon and other elements and which can grow, maintain itself, sense its surroundings, move, and reproduce.
We learn much from our parents, but it’s only a very small part of their total knowledge. Imagine if it was 100% like AI can transfer. Knowledge that never dies, never forgets, no parents, no grandparents, just eternal growth. I think reassessing that situation is a good idea.
“ I was reading this week that ChatGPT-4 is capable of self-programming, once given an objective.”
That’s really going to tick off all those ex-coal miners Obama told to learn to code.
"What are you doing, Dave?"
What happens to AI if an EMP hits?
Or it could not.
In judging the threat posed by AI, there are some routes of thinking that can blaze the campfire a little higher. For one, we need to jettison anthropomorphic based interpretations. This is a huge impediment into seeing how AI might shake out. Job one of any battlefield strategist is to put himself inside the head of his adversary. Being a biological entity capable of self delusion is not a help in this regard.
My bottom line is that AI is logical and that puts the fear of God into all our illogics. Logical is good any way you cut it. “Oh, but what about intuition?” The assumption that “intuition” is not logical points up the cognitive problem that will miss the best solution every time. The Universe is lawful, otherwise it would be a Bugs Bunny cartoon where a skull crushed by a frying pan would pop right back into shape. That’s all we gotta know...it’s lawful. Furthermore, it is lawful so that it can persist and create time. But this lawfulness also contains random elements. However that randomity falls within, is contained by, is contextualized by some hard and fast laws at the atomic level and the cosmos level. The discovery of the precise proportion of lawful to random will be of Nobel Prize caliber.
The extrapolation of AI’s logic is hard for us because we are illogical, that is to say, our inner projection of reality is subject to distortion and the laws of the grossly material universe do not apply to the inner projection room and its dream synthesis engine. The question is, can self programming AI transcend its initial condition, the biases of its human engineers? We have no concept of reality that is not marching at word speed and chained to semiotics. And, after 10,000 years, we still have no idea what’s going on behind the doorway of intuition. Which ignorance is not going to serve us well when AI becomes psychic, lol.
The latest axing of about 200 jobs takes the company's headcount down to under 2,000 staffers, according to the Times. That's down from the 7,500 who worked for the social media platform before Elon Musk bought the company last fall for $44 billion.
Maybe Twitter's AI decided they weren't needed anymore.
It would be like King Canute trying to hold back the rising tide.
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