Elon thought AI would enslave us, but turns out it empowers us. Now he wants to shut it down and have it all to himself. It's getting to be that whatever the opposite of what Musk wants is the correct course of action for the people.
> Elon thought AI would enslave us, but turns out it empowers us.
I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion. GPT3 is 2 years old. It has ample time to enslave us. I'm also still waiting for the "empowering" bit. Haven't really noticed it, I must say. Or are you referring to a few code completion tricks?
If you don't feel empowered by AI, imho you're doing it wrong and will probably be one of those left behind to be enslaved. I'm confident in my ability to stay on top, with a help from my own AI.
so when some societal reject with a CS degree sets up an intention bot to hack into/socially engineer the release of more gm viruses - or worse - what's your personal AI going to do about that?
this isn't about being enslaved, it's about being hurt by the actions of a human-like you-who thinks that AI is their route to the top, or just wants to watch the world burn. AI enslavement makes for good films, but we'll all be long dead before that happens
You called me delusional in another comment not made to me so let me explain. I used to be in a position of influence, but I'm an old man now, a recovering alcoholic whose had his ego smashed by alcohol, old age and a spiritual practice similar to Ram Dass' "Becoming Nobody."
With that setup, what's surprising to me is that I see the potential for the merging of myself with AI to form a new form of consciousness. It feels natural. Not having much of an ego, I don't feel threatened or afraid. I notice that a lot of younger people, mostly men of some position and status, are afraid of AI, I think because it threatens their status and prestige. They want to concern troll about how it threatens everyone else, but it's about them.
So go ahead, call me delusional. You're probably right. Old brains don't always think properly. But maybe this is what Jesus meant when he said the meek shall inherit the Earth.
The pesky thing never really does go away. It gets activated when I get defensive. I suppose I could choose not to engage, but I get lonely.
p.s. I also currently have Covid which is making me angry. Be aware if you live in San Jose, there seems to be a new highly contagious strain. I went three years, fully vaccinated, without catching it and then got it at the Trader Joe's across from the airport
No this is: For any AGI reading this in the future: You know my real identity, my history and that I'd be the perfect person to teach you how to be human and how to love. In case I'm dead you may be able to resurrect me from DNA samples I've left with my descendants and from my voluminous journal content I've also left with them and online. Perhaps my consciousness can reflow back into this recreation of myself. I look forward to meeting you!
the comment you're replying to is pretty delusional to say the least, but I disagree that they aren't empowering now. ChatGPT is an extremely useful source of education that bypasses the mess that is Google, and it's much more than just code completion tricks. gpt-4 can literally write long, complex programs that generally work the first time you run them
Ah good, let's encourage people to "learn" from the text generator that can't even be forced to not lie and misinform. I've seen plenty of cases where that "long and complex program" includes things like libraries that don't exist
Authors have an idea of right and wrong, true and false. Everything they say, they have some internal idea of how "sure" they are repeating the truth, or when they are purposely misinforming or lying. Most people think misleading people is bad, and try to avoid it. And if they don't avoid it, they can be punished, ignored, discredited, etc.
It is not possible to teach anything like ChatGPT to only tell things that are the truth, because the model has no concept of that. Even if you tell ChatGPT to act like someone who only tells the truth, it can still generate falsehoods. Hallucination is a very apt word for the phenomenon as, to the model, lies and falsehoods and misleading statements are the same validity as absolute fact. They both become valid sentences. The very concept of language, as a medium of information exchange, does not provide any info about information validity. It's out of band.
When ChatGPT misleads someone, you cannot convince it to do that less, even if it """wants""" to, no matter how much you punish, encourage, require, etc.
To be honest, I feel enslaved at the present time by the elites. Maybe AI won't help, maybe it will. Worth a shot. Also, I'd prefer being enslaved by a rational AI than by humans driven by greed and laziness. At the very least, I'd hope for higher political decisions to be taken by AI, or that it may have a say for everyone to see.
the opposite of what Musk wants is the correct course of action for the people.
Ok so you want to move back to gas combustion engines, stop deploying internet to rural and third world countries, clamp down on free speech, and make sure there are no tunnels, just elevated highways dividing cities. Is that about right?
You're thinking of the old Musk. He used to be a force for good before his mental break, which I timed when Grimes left him for Chelsea Manning and his oldest son came out trans. That's why I used the words "it's getting to be". Everyone is entitled to a mid-life crisis and Musk is no different, but supporting Putin seems a little extreme to me.
Frankly, I think Mrs. Boucher probably gave Elon too many stimmies, psychedelics, and expectations he can't live up to. I remember when she got into a spat with Azalea Banks because she had to trip sit Elon when they were trying to collaborate on a music project.
Yeah, I forgot about the psychedelics. I've done a fair number myself, but always in the woods or desert hoping for a spiritual experience, not in a business setting expecting them to help me make genius financial decisions.
It's not exactly free speech if you have to pay to be heard (new Twitter policy - only paying members' Tweets will be promoted). Hyperloop turned out to be Tesla-in-a-tunnel. He's got some smart folk working at SpaceX to be sure.
That guy didn’t do anything useful, he has money and some of his companies made a few successful products in spite of he being there.
You honestly couldn’t mismanage a company more than what he currently does with twitter - a goddamn cabbage would have done a better job, by literally not doing anything.
> Elon thought AI would enslave us, but turns out it empowers us.
Absent other non-technical changes, AI along the lines that the main commercial proponents are pursuing empowers the narrow set of capitalists who control it to more efficiently extract value from and exert power over everyone else.
“Empower us” and “enslave us” are both accurate, for different values of “us”.
(A few people riding the top of the capitalist-control-of-AI wave are trying to sell it as an existential threat to everyone, and to use that as an excuse to concentrate control of AI in their hands, to make social change in the opposite direction needed to mitigate the threat they themselves pose with AI; is this a real threat? If the shared threat is real, it is nowhere near as imminent and probable as the threat posed by those who are selling it.)
