Life will never be the same

Posted: July 16, 2023 by admin

“Life will never be the same. Life is changing”

Fitting words for this new world we’re moving into. In 5 to 15 years, barring some widespread catastrophic world disaster, there will be technologies as mind-blowing as ChatGPT coming out every month. Yes, though ChatGPT has been over-hyped in some ways, but it has done something that’s never been done before, while defying the naysayers, who said it couldn’t be done.

#AI #singularity #thesingularity

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Yann LeCun’s dominance/submission tweets: My thoughts

Posted: April 21, 2023 by admin

Yann LeCun — Chief AI Scientist at Meta recently made some apparently-controversial tweets. I thought some of the reactions were… silly, so here are my thoughts.

“Humans are hardwired by evolution to be a social species with hierarchical structure,” he added. “This includes hardwired drives for dominance or submission.”

No lies detected. In my estimation, most people are the submissive types, or at least the “bitchy” submissive types, where they may hate their employer, for example, but then work for them for years, even decades, without doing something to change it, like, I don’t know… quitting? And don’t dare inform one of these types that they are submissive. Pretending things are different than they are is how they cope with life.I’ll add that I think a person can override their instinctual tendencies, or develop a different drive, based on life experience, personal resolutions, etc., but they may be happiest living the position they are wired for.
“AI assistants will simply have hardwired drives to submit and not dominate.”
That is probably true for AI assistants in the foreseeable future. If it’s your assistant, it would make no sense to program it in any way other than to be submissive.
“Why would people feel threatened leading machines that are smarter than them?”

Well, it all depends on the type of AI. Some forms would not really be more dangerous (e.g. evolve to kill or enslave humans) than the Excel application running on your computer. Other types might decided to stop listening to you.

This seems a classic case of someone stating some truth that the average person is uncomfortable with, so they stupidly “shoot the messenger” (hate, irrationally argue with, discredit, etc.), as if that will make the scary truth go away.

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