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AI and human extinction: Just another conspiracy theory?

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by cocodrilo, May 31, 2023.

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  1. May 31, 2023 #1
    cocodrilo

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    Not hardly. It sounds pretty legit. And scary.

    “On Tuesday, hundreds of top AI scientists, researchers, and others — including OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis — again voiced deep concern for the future of humanity, signing a one-sentence open letter to the public that aimed to put the risks the rapidly advancing technology carries with it in unmistakable terms.

    ““Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” said the letter, signed by many of the industry’s most respected figures.

    “It doesn’t get more straightforward and urgent than that. These industry leaders are quite literally warning that the impending AI revolution should be taken as seriously as the threat of nuclear war. They are pleading for policymakers to erect some guardrails and establish baseline regulations to defang the primitive technology before it is too late.”

    Experts are warning AI could lead to human extinction. Are we taking it seriously enough? | CNN Business
     
  2. May 31, 2023 #2
    homer

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    Elon Musk is afraid of AI.
     
  3. May 31, 2023 #3
    SmootyGator

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    With technological improvements comes good and bad. Take the internet for example... Lots of good, lots of bad. AI will be the same, but more extreme. WAY more extreme.
     
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  4. May 31, 2023 #4
    tampagtr

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    Elon is afraid of intelligence generally
     
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  5. May 31, 2023 #5
    homer

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    Then he’s afraid of himself. Lol
     
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    tampagtr

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    For good reason. Any rational person should be scared of him
     
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    homer

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    I’m not scared of him. So I guess,,,
     
  8. May 31, 2023 #8
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    1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
    2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
    3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
     
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  9. May 31, 2023 #9
    homer

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    Not all programmers may agree with this.

    just sayin
     
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  11. May 31, 2023 #11
    slocala

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    Well, hence the ideas within Asimov’s writings about the existence of a new sentient race and the inherent slavery and subjugation to humans.
     
  12. May 31, 2023 #12
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    V'Ger says hello
     
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  13. May 31, 2023 #13
    cocodrilo

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    "I'm sorry, Dave." - HAL the computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
     
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    The internet already killed us. AI will only be burying the bodies.
     
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  15. May 31, 2023 #15
    tampagtr

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    Clever

     
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    AgingGator

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    There is much truth to this statement!
     
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    Conspiracy theory. How and why would intelligent AI "destory us." It seems the risk is basically things humans might do to each other, such as delegating the decision of firing off nukes to some computer program without adequate safeguards.
     
  18. May 31, 2023 #18
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    Exactly.
     
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    Hopefully we’ll be dead before the worst of it comes..

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  20. Jun 1, 2023 #20
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    Murder, destruction, and conquest are only the default actions of humans, not AI. Humanity is 50Xs more likely to destroy itself. Unless AI saves us from ourselves by eradicating us, wait, I get it now.
     
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