Overall I'm inclined to think that much of this is a ramp.
Both OpenAI and Anthropic are facing (delayed) IPOs. A government backstop of cash from the gullible Trump, (who probably smells $$$, in this case incorrectly) would be very useful. These are not sentient beings, but they can walk through security doors that have been left open.
A lot of the panic about AI destroying us ignores the fact that this is an environment in which everything is programmed by humans. For the most part there is very little these systems can do that hasn't been explicitly or tacitly allowed. I've worked in software for most of my life and most of this stuff is just bullshit.
IMHO the Anthropic guy that 'resigned' because 'AI will kill humanity' (without giving a coherent explanation of how that would come about) is a plant or a grifter. Lots of money to be made these days in AI fear and loathing.
I buy your argument that this is regular stuff; there is no consciousness, no ontological entity, it is our fault in buying the anthropomorphizing that the frontier firms and the media are putting out.
What I'm not sure I buy is the insinuation that this is business as normal. When "intelligence" (even defined mechanically) can run at warp speed, the inevitable human failings are exposed much more often, deeply and dangerously.
If the battleground has one "side" running bits and bytes of logic on silicon, at warp speed, and the other "side" is relying on guidelines, policies and bureaucracies, the choice of battleground is determinative. Humans can't win a battle fought on pure rationality.
We are indeed hampered by our language, habits and instincts. But even if we overcome that, it's a losing hand we're playing. We may be mis-labelling the danger, but the danger is no less for our mis-labelling.
“Humans can't win a battle fought on pure rationality.”
Thank you for this clear bit of reality. Just as human life changed in the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, so too will our lives be altered by the stark, binary rationality of machine domination. We seem to be hoping our machines will become more like us while ignoring the possibility we will probably become more like them.
Overall I'm inclined to think that much of this is a ramp.
Both OpenAI and Anthropic are facing (delayed) IPOs. A government backstop of cash from the gullible Trump, (who probably smells $$$, in this case incorrectly) would be very useful. These are not sentient beings, but they can walk through security doors that have been left open.
A lot of the panic about AI destroying us ignores the fact that this is an environment in which everything is programmed by humans. For the most part there is very little these systems can do that hasn't been explicitly or tacitly allowed. I've worked in software for most of my life and most of this stuff is just bullshit.
IMHO the Anthropic guy that 'resigned' because 'AI will kill humanity' (without giving a coherent explanation of how that would come about) is a plant or a grifter. Lots of money to be made these days in AI fear and loathing.
I buy your argument that this is regular stuff; there is no consciousness, no ontological entity, it is our fault in buying the anthropomorphizing that the frontier firms and the media are putting out.
What I'm not sure I buy is the insinuation that this is business as normal. When "intelligence" (even defined mechanically) can run at warp speed, the inevitable human failings are exposed much more often, deeply and dangerously.
If the battleground has one "side" running bits and bytes of logic on silicon, at warp speed, and the other "side" is relying on guidelines, policies and bureaucracies, the choice of battleground is determinative. Humans can't win a battle fought on pure rationality.
We are indeed hampered by our language, habits and instincts. But even if we overcome that, it's a losing hand we're playing. We may be mis-labelling the danger, but the danger is no less for our mis-labelling.
Or so it seems to me. Your thoughts?
“Humans can't win a battle fought on pure rationality.”
Thank you for this clear bit of reality. Just as human life changed in the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, so too will our lives be altered by the stark, binary rationality of machine domination. We seem to be hoping our machines will become more like us while ignoring the possibility we will probably become more like them.
Thanks for this. You do an excellent job explaining things I do not understand
I've been waiting for this. Thank you!