Matt, Now this is expressing opinion and engaging in a dialogue, kudos to you! ❤️
However, for someone who spent a life in the field of compression, you seem to like the keys on your keyboard a lot! Allow me to demonstrate: I would love to see a debate between Yann LeCun and Eliezer Yudkowsky. I > don't agree with either, but both have important points. > Fuck LeCun, fuck Yudkowsky, I know better than both of them. EY says we should take any existential risk seriously because even if the > probability is small, the expected loss is still large. We can't predict > (or control) AI because mutual prediction is impossible (by Wolpert's law) > and otherwise we would be the smarter one. We are historically very bad at > prediction. Nobody predicted the internet, social media, mobile phones, or > population collapse in developed countries. The consistent trends have been > economic growth, improved living conditions, life expectancy, and Moore's > Law. If these hold, then it will be at least a century before we need to > worry about being eaten by gray goo. > Some old men said some stuff several years ago, but these are laws, because they made sense in my mind at the time. I also agree with LeCun that the proposed California AI law is useless. The > law would require AIs trained using over 10^26 floating point operations to > be tested that they won't help develop weapons for terrorism, hacking, or > fraud. But secrecy is not what is stopping people from building nuclear, > biological, or chemical weapons. It's that the materials are hard to get. > An AI that understands code could also be used to find zero day attacks, > but hacking tools are double edged swords. Sys admins and developers have a > legitimate need for hacking tools to test their own systems. When > penetration tools are outlawed, only outlaws will have penetration tools. > The world is tougher than the toughest of men, i.e. Allaho Akbar! The immediate threat is AI impersonating humans. China already requires AI > generated images to be labeled as such. Meta AI, which is blocked in China, > already does this voluntarily with a watermark in the corner. Also, about > 20-30% of people believe that AI should have human rights, which is > extremely dangerous because it could exploit human empathy for the benefit > of its owners. It should be illegal to program an AI to claim to be human, > to claim to be conscious or sentient, or claim to have feelings or emotions. > Chinese are currently the toughest civilization, aka. China o Akbar! AI will profoundly change our lives. We will prefer AI to humans for > services, because with humans you always have to wait and pay for their > time. We will prefer AI to humans for friendship because AI is more > entertaining, a constant stream of TikTok videos or propaganda or games or > whatever you prefer. We will prefer AI to humans for relationships because > sexbots are always ready when you are and never argue. We will live alone > in smart homes that track who is home, what you are doing, and when you > need help. Everything you want can be delivered by self driving carts. You > will have your own private music genre and private jargon as AI adapts to > you, and we lose our ability to communicate with other humans directly. > You are dogs, because you watch Netflix and order on Uber Eats. When you train a dog with treats, does it matter who is controlling who? > Everyone gets what they want. Before we are eaten by uncontrolled AI, we > will be controlled by AI controlled by billionaires and everyone wins. > Right? > Dogs are harassed, we are dogs, billionaires hold our leash. Except for evolution, because the only groups still having children will be > the groups that reject technology and don't give women options other than > motherhood. Right now that's central Africa, places like Afghanistan and > Gaza, and cultures like the Amish. Personally I believe in equal rights, > but I will also die without descendants. > West is nice, everywhere else is underdeveloped. Sorry for the crude lingo there, just wanted to let you know how I, a fringe minority here, hear the messages you’re sending. Don’t mean any disrespect, hope that’s clear by now. Can you, in a few sentences, describe what your magnum opus is, and what’s the great insight that everyone else is missing? ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T17fa3f27f63a882a-M403c3f961023f69df1ea756a Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
