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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
“AI” – chatbots that wake up, “set their own goals,” and “spontaneously” start hacking servers – is fake. It doesn’t have “a 10% chance of ending the human race.” The Hugging Face hack isn’t a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It’s a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn’t accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.
What could be the trouble readers are having with downvoting this? That LLMs aren’t AI, and so AI can’t kill us? Doctorow’s paper is rambling and convoluted, and the horrible problem with the quote OP excerpts is something Zitron said in his last show too.
If that is indeed the pathethic point author/Zitron are making… This is disinformation that chooses to hope the pile of money set on fire (functional definition of AI) will just make mere LLMs, and the people who kill us will merely be using LLMs to do it more efficiently. This is offensively disgusting evil that could only come from the most corrupt AI (pile of burning money) stooge defender to defraud the public.
It’s fine to choose to believe that the big burning pile of money chasing AGI/better LLMs, will never achieve the goal of something worth your definition threshold for what can be called AI. Don’t get confused by this faith, and semantic worthlessness, into thinking that the big burning pile of money buidling tools that exist today, and will be improved tomorrow, can’t harm you. This is the “guns dont kill people…” argument, but when they sing hail to the chief, their, high productivity enhanced killing, cannons, with no guardrails, are pointed at you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1cF9YwGjJ8&pp=ygUUZm9ydHVuYXRlIHNvbiBseXJpY3M%3D