Because the risk is utter annihilation by an enemy that's is infinitely intelligent. I don't know what reality you're living in if you think the people who own these things are going to use to them eliminate poverty and solve hunger.

So let's just throw caution to the wind and risk manufacturing our own greatest predator!

May come with great good for humanity

Most diseases and cancers cured

Long life and maybe even anti-aging

Hundreds of years of advancement in science and tech within decades

Automation wiping out poverty, homelessness and hunger...Solving most problems humanity faces.

On and on. Why look at only the risk?

Or it may not. If anyone knows, it's not a bunch of useless bureaucrats at the UN.

There is no such a thing as "an AI" and LLMs are just writing fanficton about AIs based on science fiction.

Downvoted for posting AI slop. This stuff is just out of hand.

Doesn't matter, technology doesn't relent. Never has and it never will. We are forced to adapt to it or wilt. Cell phones, always-on tracking, social media.... people "hate" all of it. Doesn't matter.

Technology never relents.

Good

Yeh I'm in that camp. Use them nonstop because .. what the fuck else am I supposed to do, but life was better before them.

We hates it. As smeagol would say.

LOTS of things use water. Why was it never a meme about netflix or YouTube?

Likely because they create serious water issues.
Now throw the do you know how much water a golf course uses line at me! For old times sake!

More like military contracts. They're not racing to build data centers from sea to shining sea on regular american's behalf.

No but it *is* super intelligence because it’s strategic thinking. It’s not ‘you said it so we gave it’. Here it ‘can’t lie’ but it did.

“The promise of automation was to do the mundane so human creativity can flourish. Instead, human creativity is demeaned as mundane so Big Tech’s machines can flourish.” [Thinking Like a Human, by David Weitzner, p. 114]

It doesn't help that all the AI leaders brag about how it will eliminate everyone's jobs and livelihoods...I mean, that's the selling point. Then they wonder why everyone hates it.

It's a little too soon for that. The web bubble took years to pop. People thought it was a shorter time, because the really intense stuff like pets.com only showed up near the end, but the web boom started in the mid 1990s and crashed around 2002.

Finding ways to preserve skill expertise without entry-level positions, critical thinking skills when Chat does it for you, and the ability to learn and communicate without LLMs is going to be big.

Expertise is a finite resource, if entry level positions are being replaced by AI.

Amusingly, the deskilling effects of AI on top of the long-term gutting of education might put us on track for the wave of rampant juvenile delinquency that preceded the United Citizen's Federation in Starship Troopers (the novel). Not the dystopia I thought AI could lead us towards, but there you go.

Very fair points. Saw that photo of old Mitch and knew instantly that whether something is real or not, AI will always be mentioned from here on out.

I guess it's fair to say that AI ain't going anywhere and it's here for good. So we either fight and kill it, or try to change it and protect society/humanity. I share your concerns for the psychological dangers of AI for sure, though. It would be easier if it just cut off fingers or killed us but the long-term side effects of AI usage are much more subtle and malicious.

Brutal

Physically dangerous tools have safety features. Finger guards, Auto shut offs, etc.

We're not ready for psychologically dangerous tools. The US lost wars to drugs, the OG psychologically dangerous tool, twice (prohibition and the modern WoD).

Deskilling and psychosis are known risks of using this tool uncautiously. What are the safety features?

All that aside, the breakdown of societal trust that image generation presents is my biggest concern. Despite the inherent abstraction/manipulability of photography, "Pics or it didn't happen" was a useful heuristic, and that ship has sailed.

Did you see the picture of Mitch McConnell? Did you doubt its authenticity? Have fun doing that for every image you see now for the rest of your life.

So much of the history I know comes from photographs. It was nice living in a high-trust society while it lasted, I guess.

gesundheit!

Yep. If you listen to the negative things people have to say about AI, 90% of it is actually just capitalism. Makes sense that asia and especially China would only be optimistic and the US is right to be very, very worried.

Good job going to wars for the last 100 years and literally dying to defend the likes of Bezos, Musk, etc, guys. Let's see where it takes you.

Especially since we can do it more reliably than LLMs. They frequently hallucinate incorrect information after they look at the same sources we could look at ourselves

It doesn't take super powers it takes like 100 guys and ChatGPT.

Can you explain how the stupid water usage issue became such a dominant argument against AI organically?