With all these massive amounts of articles about AI that’s gonna destroy humanity, aren’t we putting the idea out there for AI?
AI is already destroying humanity. All the algorithms that drive content distribution are producing society polarized to the extreme. We consume media that some machines decide to serve us with one goal: grow engagement.
AI destroying humanity is not robots crushing skulls, but automated services mushing brains.
AI ≠ Algorithm
An algorithm always answers/does the same on an input, AI doesn’t. Blaming AI for algorithmic content delivery is false.
It is not the algorithm that is destroying humanity, but the financial incentive of the people standing behind it.
AI always answers the same too, if the inputs are the same. The trick is to use a hidden input that keeps changing, like the current time, and you can do the same with any algorithm.
AI is just a really advanced algorithm. (Or sometimes not so advanced, if you include types of AI that aren’t LLMs.)
Also, AI is behind almost all algorithmic content delivery. You can just google it and find articles like How AI Influences What You See on Facebook and Instagram. Every closed-source platform is using it, except maybe reddit, but that’s only because they have a ton of technical debt that makes it difficult for them to change core systems.
Of course it’s true that AI is “just” a tool, but it’s a tool that makes it a lot easier to manipulate people, and it’s already a huge problem.
AI in its current state is an algorithm. Given a temperature of 0, an AI SHOULD always give the same answer for the same input (but there is currently a bug in chatgpt that makes it not so)
AI won’t destroy humanity, if anything does, humans will destroy humanity. AI is a tool like any program, if we prematurely give it the power to cause a lot of damage, it’s not the AI fault it’s the human who didn’t sufficiently test before pushing to production.
This, 100%. I fear malevolent humans welding AI much more than it going rogue on its own.
We, or better yet they, are literally building one to destroy humanity. Check out chaosgpt
Hopefully.
alternatively, we’re teaching AI what we don’t want from it
deleted by creator
You’ve seen the movies. You know it’s inevitable.
I don’t think it is even needed. An intelligent AI capable of killing humans would see all the gore and sadness on the internet and just decide to kill us all. An AI that lets itself be influenced by some internet article won’t have the capabilities to end humanity.