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AI companies are trying to build god. Shouldn’t they get our permission first?
The public did not consent to artificial general intelligence.
By Sigal Samuel | Oct 11, 2024, 7:30 AM CDT
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/377555/ai-chatgpt-openai-god
AI companies are on a mission to radically change our world. They’re working on building machines that could outstrip human intelligence and unleash a dramatic economic transformation on us all.
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, has basically told us he’s trying to build a god — or “magic intelligence in the sky,” as he puts it. OpenAI’s official term for this is artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Altman says that AGI will not only “break capitalism” but also that it’s “probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.”
There’s a very natural question here: Did anyone actually ask for this kind of AI? By what right do a few powerful tech CEOs get to decide that our whole world should be turned upside down?
As I’ve written before, it’s clearly undemocratic that private companies are building tech that aims to totally change the world without seeking buy-in from the public. In fact, even leaders at the major companies are expressing unease about how undemocratic it is.
Jack Clark, the co-founder of the AI company Anthropic, told Vox last year that it’s “a real weird thing that this is not a government project.” He also wrote that there are several key things he’s “confused and uneasy” about, including, “How much permission do AI developers need to get from society before irrevocably changing society?” Clark continued:
Technologists have always had something of a libertarian streak, and this is perhaps best epitomized by the ‘social media’ and Uber et al era of the 2010s — vast, society-altering systems ranging from social networks to rideshare systems were deployed into the world and aggressively scaled with little regard to the societies they were influencing. This form of permissionless invention is basically the implicitly preferred form of development as epitomized by Silicon Valley and the general ‘move fast and break things’ philosophy of tech. Should the same be true of AI?
I’ve noticed that when anyone questions that norm of “permissionless invention,” a lot of tech enthusiasts push back. Their objections always seem to fall into one of three categories. Because this is such a perennial and important debate, it’s worth tackling each of them in turn — and why I think they’re wrong.
More at https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/377555/ai-chatgpt-openai-god
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2448480-shazam-for-whales-uses-ai
-to-track-sounds-heard-in-mariana-trench/
AI in the Ocean can link to a possible far away Alien Worlds and Civilization and SETI has carried out an experiment in communication with humpback whales
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Artificial Intelligence effort launched to decode whale language might help understand Alien languages
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OpenAI is boasting that they are about to make a lot of the legal profession permanently unemployed.
https://wallstreetpit.com/119841-from-8000-to-3-openais-revolutionary-
impact-on-legal-work/
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How one AI program does film, draws and paints world leaders
MAGA Strikes Back
Castor Chua
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Gaming culture Gamers
I Tried Working As A Paranormal Investigator ...but Ai Ghosts REACT To What I Say?!
Ghost Story: Unveiling AI's Darkest Halloween Nightmare
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Peter Cushing 'resurrected' for new Hammer Horror documentary using deepfake AI
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/peter-cushing-ai-deepfake-
hammer-documentary-newsupdate/
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Thousands go to fake AI-invented Dublin Halloween parade
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/11/01/thousands-go-to-fake-ai-in
vented-dublin-halloween-parade
from a Pakistani-hosted website that creates AI-generated news
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Waymo says its robo-taxis have now driven 25 million miles (40 million km) without human drivers, and that these journeys are substantially safer than human-driven journeys.
https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
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You can be replaced, 6ixStringJack. Articulateness is cheap to imitate with A.I.
A tiny radio station in Poland is a canary in the AI coal mine
By Kevin Drum | November 3, 2024 – 2:30 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/a-tiny-radio-station-in-poland-is-a-canary-i
n-the-coal-mine/
The New York Times has a story today about a tiny radio station in Krakow, Poland. How tiny? Its listenership was "close to zero."
So with literally nothing to lose, the manager of the station decided to convert it into a pure AI production: no human announcers, just AI generated hosts. Among other things, they created a show in which an AI host interviewed an AI reconstructions of famous dead people. The audience grew to 8,000 overnight, but:
Less welcome than the audience surge, however, has been a barrage of abuse directed at the public broadcasting system and accusations that it was sacrificing humans on the altar of technology.
“I have been turned into a job-killing monster who wants to replace real people with avatars,” said Mariusz Marcin Pulit, the editor in chief of Radio Krakow and of niche stations operating under its umbrella, like Off Radio Krakow.
....An online petition drafted by Mr. Zaleski, the terminated culture show host, and Mateusz Demski, a fellow presenter who also lost his job, warned that “the case of Off Radio Krakow is an important reminder for the entire industry” and a “dangerous precedent that hits us all.”
The use of A.I.-generated presenters, the petition warned, “is opening the door to a world in which experienced employees associated for years with the media and people employed in creative industries will be replaced by machines.”
The station was so small it had hardly any hosts to begin with — and they were all part-timers with other day jobs. But public outrage was strong enough that the experiment was quickly ended and the station returned to playing ordinary music written and performed by humans.
Is this a sign of things to come? It's one thing when taxi drivers lose their jobs, but quite another when creative types with big megaphones are the ones whose ox is being gored. This is all going to start playing out sooner than most people think.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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