Artificial intelligence officially gets scary

[luka]

a slightly different case perhaps

 

[wektor]

 

[Mr. Tea]

The Japanese have, as ever, done this better and weirder than anyone else.

 

[Leo]

Statement on AI Risk | CAIS

A statement jointly signed by a historic coalition of experts: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

www.safe.ai

A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn

Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.

www.nytimes.com

A group of industry leaders warned on Tuesday that the artificial intelligence technology they are building may one day pose an existential threat to humanity and should be considered a societal risk on par with pandemics and nuclear wars. The open letter has been signed by more than 350 executives, researchers and engineers working in A.I.

The signatories included top executives from three of the leading A.I. companies: Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI; Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind; and Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, two of the three researchers who won a Turing Award for their pioneering work on neural networks and are often considered “godfathers” of the modern A.I. movement, signed the statement, as did other prominent researchers in the field. (The third Turing Award winner, Yann LeCun, who leads Meta’s A.I. research efforts, had not signed as of Tuesday.)

Um, guys, aren't you the ones who are building it and letting this happen?

 

[Clinamenic]

Statement on AI Risk | CAIS

A statement jointly signed by a historic coalition of experts: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

www.safe.ai

A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn

Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.

www.nytimes.com

Um, guys, aren't you the ones who are building it and letting this happen?

With open source stuff though, I suspect the cats out of the bag. Did you see that memo I posted which allegedly leaked from Googles AI dept?

 

[Leo]

Civilization brought to its knees by "it's gonna be awesome!" tech bro culture, cool!

 

[Clinamenic]

Civilization brought to its knees by "it's gonna be awesome!" tech bro culture, cool!

Free markets, baby!

 

[Leo]

Especially fun when all the markets implode.

 

[Clinamenic]

Especially fun when all the markets implode.

Some may argue late-stage capitalism has attained metastability, but that might just be the Buckfast talking.

 

[Leo]

Everything was fine until you and your lot came along with all your hocus-pocus smoke & mirrors blockchain bullshit.

 

[Clinamenic]

Everything was fine until you and your lot came along with all your hocus-pocus smoke & mirrors blockchain bullshit.

Some of us are actually working on AI agents
which can read and write to blockchains.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Some may argue late-stage capitalism has attained metastability, but that might just be the Buckfast talking.

The boom-crash cycle would suggest bistability, rather.

 

[ghost]

Um, guys, aren't you the ones who are building it and letting this happen?

sometimes a confession is actually an attempt to take credit

i don't believe any of the 'end of the world' stuff, just an attempt to regulate the little guy out of the business.

but they will eventually have stuff with powerful military usecases, and it's going straight into the heart of the pentagon. that's the real thing to worry about, if you ask me.

 

[Clinamenic]

The boom-crash cycle would suggest bistability, rather.

Yeah that’s more accurate, wasn’t aware of that concept.

 

[wg-]

But yeah I'd say over the last couple months we've crossed into the era where AI content can realistically compete against human content in terms of consumer mindshare.

I would like one good example of this please

 

[Clinamenic]

I would like one good example of this please

There was just that AI Drake song that a lot of people liked, some people saying that it was better than some/most of his recent work. I don't listen to Drake so I wouldn't know, but when I heard this one ("Winters Cold" I believe its called) it sounded like a real Drake song, and a plausibly popular one at that.

 

[wg-]

See i thought Lvcci wrote it? That's not actually AI generated is it, or am i missing something

I thought this was like a parody but the reference vocal put through an AI robot voice

 

[Clinamenic]

See i thought Lvcci wrote it? That's not actually AI generated is it, or am i missing something

I thought this was like a parody but the reference vocal put through an AI robot voice

Yeah I’d imagine this was a hybrid human/AI collab, but I don’t know the production details. But yeah anyway it’s still not a competition really between human and AI, but we’re starting to see glimmers of it, is what I’m saying.

 

[wg-]

I think its an interesting thing all this i don't mean to dig you out

But all this one did is give him a funny drake voice

 

[wg-]

The Google "make ai music" beta is terrible the moment you go out of the three or four styles it can sort of do but not really

I hope there are some secret programmer apps better than the ones we are getting at the moment