Dangers of AI
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boji
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AGI = NHI (as a metaphor)
AnalogPackrat
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This speaker is part of the (unhinged) problem. He has completely unrealistic idealism about this technology. My biggest fear is people like this charging forward with little actual understanding of the consequences, despite his well-delivered rhetoric. He talks about boundaries and safety while nothing is being done about either. It's worse than gain of function research, IMO.
Time to start learning those stone-age skills. The techno-bros are determined to build this stuff without any realistic, pragmatic balanced view of the consequences for all of us.
Edit to add: in the past couple of months I've seen an alarming increase in AI generated fake (and incorrect) content pushed to my FB feed. Much of it is fake history photos and information. Many commenters seem blissfully unaware of what they're looking at.
The truth about what social media companies have been doing is becoming abundantly clear , but they already have people on the hook now .
This AI will end up used as a tool for social engineering ,
Social media has already turned politics into an abortion , ironically many of the public representatives who ushered in the likes of FB & T with great fanfare because they thought they could use it to their own advantage have become chewed up and shat out onto the political scrap heap . Years of austerity followed by covid has left us in a very similar place to post WW1 in the 1920's and 30's , where wanna be despots catch the public imagination .
The AI is not your friend , its not here to help us , it see's us as meat on the hoof .
Theres evidence of tracked transport going back more than 5000 years , iron rails are relatively new by comparrison, but still beyond the memory of anyone living .
This AI will end up used as a tool for social engineering ,
Social media has already turned politics into an abortion , ironically many of the public representatives who ushered in the likes of FB & T with great fanfare because they thought they could use it to their own advantage have become chewed up and shat out onto the political scrap heap . Years of austerity followed by covid has left us in a very similar place to post WW1 in the 1920's and 30's , where wanna be despots catch the public imagination .
The AI is not your friend , its not here to help us , it see's us as meat on the hoof .
Theres evidence of tracked transport going back more than 5000 years , iron rails are relatively new by comparrison, but still beyond the memory of anyone living .
That's evidently true. But why would you expect it to be your friend?
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I wouldnt ,
I would expect its being used by social media and big business like a kind of chess computer to divide us
politically and idealogically.
You have to admit with the state of decay politics is in now, it appears to be working very effectively on a global scale .
I would expect its being used by social media and big business like a kind of chess computer to divide us
politically and idealogically.
You have to admit with the state of decay politics is in now, it appears to be working very effectively on a global scale .
AnalogPackrat
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That's what some of the AI proponents are pushing. Like the TEDTalk by the Open AI guy that was linked earlier. Do they really believe their BS or are they gaslighting?
AnalogPackrat
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To decide what content to push to your feed (and, more importantly, what to censor from your feed). Also to analyze your personality based on your tracked behavior (as part of the feed construction and for other more creepy and nefarious purposes).
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1) to amplify engagement
2) to identify customers to merchandise for targeted advertising
3) to make more money
JR
Yeah, that could be an application of AI. But they're already doing exactly that. And they've been doing it since the very beginning...
I'm not so sure it will be the killer application for social media. And it's not happening on my FB account, so you do not have to accept it willingly.
Identifying friends, fi, still is phone number and email address based. Doesn't need AI. I also don't see what data could be added to make it more precise.
I had this battle with Linked In. In the end, they exactly did what I wanted them to: delete my account. It took a while, though. Now I hear from consultants I work with that LI has become utterly useless. It's too big and too biased. The influence of the dollar, you know...
Possibly. But how would "amplifying engagement" work, exactly. Humans are pretty unpredictable. Just look at the stuff that goes viral. As far as I can tell, nobody has solved that equation yet. And it's not as if they haven't tried.
AnalogPackrat
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It already is.
And now they've got more data and big AI to analyze it. If you can't see the danger...
It is happening on your FB feed whether you notice it or not.
They don't care about your friends. That's just their shallow marketing to get you to give up your data for mining. Open your eyes.
LinkedIn was great for several years when it was a simple professional networking system with online resumes. Then they ruined it. It's not much different than FB now.
Who told you that? Last I heard, FB is "getting ready" to "refine" their algo's. Doesn't mean or read AI.
I really don't see any clear danger. Please explain.
I'm not sure what you mean by "feed". I've got only some messages from groups I follow and an occasional ad. I never watch the rest. And even those groups aren't worth the effort, which is why I open FB maybe once a month.
Lately, I don't even get ads. Haven't seen one in months. Besides, I have 1 FB friend, which isn't real.
AnalogPackrat
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I'll use your NDA excuse.
They've been up to it for a while and so have clients who push content on FB.
Ignorance is bliss.
Well, if you aren't looking, it must not exist. Is that your response? It's there if you pay attention.
Whatever.
AnalogPackrat
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Look in the mirror.
I'm not obligated to answer every ridiculous question you ask. I hope the US will elect someone who will extricate us from foreign entanglements, particularly in Europe, which only wants our military protection while complaining about everything else we do.
I'm an independent who can no longer support the neo-leftists that have taken over the Democrat party. I'll continue to vote for "least likely to damage core values" while also pushing for sanity where I see errors being made by the GOP.
boji
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In the video "The AI Dilemma", did you get to the part where Tristan & Aza explained how scientist's used an LLM to "translate" the blood flow in a person's occipital lobe so to reproduce what that person was looking at? (It was a giraffe)
Ai made an interpretable language out of what an eye sees by patterning the blood in an observer's brain.
Extrapolate:
With enough Ai training, any electrical, behavioral, or biological system dataset can be potentially 'unlocked' or bridged via a language model. It's Edward Bernays' wet dream.
Now militarize it.
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scott2000
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wow
