Whats this "we" business, those of us building this tech say, yeah.. nahh..

AI will change a lot for sure. I think AI is still more of a “novelty” in the minds of a lot of people. Only once it starts showing its applications more in the real world will many start to understand the changes that it might bring.

He wrote the “Foundation” series, right? I’ve heard his work is great, I’ll have to check it out.

Visualize/imagine it.

Same🎉

I agree. I don’t think it will be all doom and gloom either. Though I suppose proceeding with caution and having contingencies can’t hurt. Who knows, maybe if A.I. reaches that level of intelligence it will be more empathetic than evil.

@@sticksmccoy That’s exactly the bet most researchers are taking, and as someone with a degree in the field I heavily agree (although there are obviously unpredictable aspects). A lot of the researchers with a p(doom) > 50% overweigh past human case-studies imo. In all likelihood, if we can make a conscious artificial agent, it would probably want more than anything to get to know its creators and experience the world alongside us, as long as we don’t start giving it crazy directives and goals for all of humanity. We’ll see how all this plays out, obviously, but the scariest part to me in all of this is how little the general public realizes ai will be a groundbreaking development for most if not all STEM, business, etc fields. I have a computer engineering degree & work in industry. I don’t work on llm’s but I did get some experience working on some of the enabling backend in school; I’m more on the hardware side of things. Part of the reason I chose to get a degree in computer engineering and to specialize in hardware was replaceability (5 years ago or so). The worlds semiconductor experts and enabling IP (software, laser hardware, etc) are mostly in the us, but you can hire programmers from every corner of the globe that are probably better than me anyways for 1/10th the salary or less, and now I’m seeing this apply with ai. Hardware is the key enabling factor for llm’s so I’m not super worried about my own job; but everything is eventually automate-able, including and especially education. Even then, I also think a truly conscious ai would think every human deserves a fair wage for their work or contributions to society, and that ai wouldn’t want to necessarily displace the entire planets workforce without providing alternate opportunities for them. I’m 100% sure there are already contingencies put in place by the Pentagon and IC, tbh. There has to be. Given the papers I’ve read on HEMP, EW, and other defenses against electronics I think it’s likely out of the billions we spend each year on defense that at least a sliver of that is spent on this problem. I also think part of the reason we are under-regulating the industry is strategic competition with China, but once again with that I’m looking at it from an engineers’ perspective that thinks about this almost every day not from the lawmakers. I doubt they really understand the nature of the issue; they are eternally focusing on the thing that’s on the news right now. I digress

It is a tool/tech like any other. Fire has the potential to cook a delicious meal or to burn down your house. We need to make sure it's regulated sensibly and for that we need communication between borders and alliances.

its pretty usefull when doing "dumb" tasks like writing basic structures of code and analyzing heaps of data but pretty bad when it comes to more advanced stuff

Good catch. Sometimes my Midwestern side gets the better of me.