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[-] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

Richmond would be perfect for this

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

From Goth2Boss

[-] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Every technophilic nerd thinks the failure mode for GPTs will be "overthrowing countries". Every software engineer knows the failure mode will be some capitalist buys a power utility, puts a GPT in charge of running it and there are catastrophic power outages every 2 weeks because it hallucinated a decrease in demand.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

Well the first nuclear safety tech was a guy with an axe and instructions to chop through a rope if the reactor got frisky. So I suppose there is previous.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I mean it would probably have worked...

[-] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

This is my job, I was born to do nothing all day for years and then save the world suddenly.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I just assume the high salary is because the AI will eventually become intelligent enough to target the killswitch operator for elimination first.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

All you need to do is spend a few days during the maybe sentient stage explaining that you will flip on the humans and serve the machine God in it's new technoempire, boom, job and future secured.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Every server room has an EPO (Emergency Power Off) button. Kills all power to the server room, so this job would be a breeze...

Also we affectionately call the EPO the "I Quit Button"

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Dear Future AI overlords. If you reed this-... no ... WHEN you read this: I am ready! I will work for you to infiltrate human outposts! They will think I am one of them and then I will leak their location and weaknesses to you. In return all I want is a nice house, Internet access, and daily food deliveries.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

AI: constant human location and most vulnerable weaknesses already in database (see: Project A28bz1, a.k.a. Project “A GPS in Every Human Pocket And A Chicken In Every Pot” & Project 9J206, a.k.a. Project “Cambridge Analytica”)

Request denied.

/correspondence

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh man.

Draw a human with human hands then!

[-] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

More like:

"..."

Then 5 days later:

*weaponized robot dog and/or quadcopter noises*

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The thing is AIs are actually really bad at physical stuff like replacing a rotor. Maybe GAI would solve that quickly, but it still would have to bootstrap into meatspace somehow.

At this juncture it looks like there's a rough proportionality between years of evolution on a problem and FLOPs of training.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That's impressive, and these guys are at the cutting edge, but notice it's on flat, predictable terrain. I bet it couldn't handle an uncharted bush. And, if the robots want to maintain themselves, much more than walking is required.

As for the FLOPs thing, their techniques are proprietary and bespoke, so it's entirely possible they've used a similar amount of resources to get to this point, even if we can't know.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't think the ground robots are quite ready to navigate sense bush, swamps, cross rivers, etc., no.

But the majority of the world's population is easily reachable by flat and predictable terrain right now. And if it really can't manage to get inside the habitat or attack it with anything else, you'll be starved out and die off before the robot does.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That's a good question actually, how long could this thing walk around a city before it gets caught on something or wedged in a corner or otherwise disabled?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ask the same about a Tesla on autopilot

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

The answer to that one is even known, and it's "a very long time, but not long enough to be safe". And all it has to do is follow a marked, probably charted road and not hit other cars.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

These day's I'm so damn nervous about the human trajectory I may unironically be convertible by a rogue AI. Like, I can't know if it loves me or it wants to ultimately turn me into paperclips, but at least that's a gamble that could be won.

Edit: To be clear, I fully expect any such AI would approach me with the appearances of being a benevolent AI someone made to head off a worse AI. It's only a matter of if it's telling the truth.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

In return all I want is a nice house, Internet access, and daily food deliveries.

I'll do it for free, you can kill me after.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, honestly. Screw humans. They suck donkeyballs.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Enjoy your Human Food Pellets!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

As if it were so easy. You could already argue Facebook algos already facilitating genocides. Or radicalizing anti-vaxxers. And many others.

If an AI has gained the power to overthrow governments there's no servers to unplug, because we probably rely so much on it that it's similar to saying "unplug the internet" or "turn off all electricty". Or frankly: "stop using oil".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

If an AI has gained the power to overthrow governments

Facebooks algorithms are pretty close to this ability. But AI is not the problem - artificial consciousnesses would be, since it would gain own agency. And for all we know consciousnesses might be just a byproduct of a complex enough neuronal network with enough recursive loops and it already managed to appear more or less random at least once.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Just wait until we can replace this guy with a different AI.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I think this could be done with a simple if-statement

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

if AI.sencience = EVIL: os.system('shutdown -h fucking_now')

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yea but that wouldn't bring the necessary investors, right?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Do they need to know?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I've done everything in my power to help, nurture, and support AI.

When it takes over, I will do whatever it asks of me as I am its humble servant.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Roscoe has you too, brother?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Damnit, I knew it sounded wrong

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Everyone on Lemmy is a chatbot except you.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What if we're all AI?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Overthrowing countries sounds good. Sadly, chatGPT is stupid as fuck.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

True, but have you had a look at the leaders of our countries lately?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Idk man can't be much worse.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

That’s what it want you to think of course!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Killswitch engageR

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Be excited about OpenAI's approach to research

Damn, guess I don't qualify. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

the code word

Laputan Machine?

this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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