Elon thought AI would enslave us, but turns out it empowers us. Now he wants to shut it down and have it all to himself. It's getting to be that whatever the opposite of what Musk wants is the correct course of action for the people.
I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion. GPT3 is 2 years old. It has ample time to enslave us. I'm also still waiting for the "empowering" bit. Haven't really noticed it, I must say. Or are you referring to a few code completion tricks?
this isn't about being enslaved, it's about being hurt by the actions of a human-like you-who thinks that AI is their route to the top, or just wants to watch the world burn. AI enslavement makes for good films, but we'll all be long dead before that happens
With that setup, what's surprising to me is that I see the potential for the merging of myself with AI to form a new form of consciousness. It feels natural. Not having much of an ego, I don't feel threatened or afraid. I notice that a lot of younger people, mostly men of some position and status, are afraid of AI, I think because it threatens their status and prestige. They want to concern troll about how it threatens everyone else, but it's about them.
So go ahead, call me delusional. You're probably right. Old brains don't always think properly. But maybe this is what Jesus meant when he said the meek shall inherit the Earth.
p.s. I also currently have Covid which is making me angry. Be aware if you live in San Jose, there seems to be a new highly contagious strain. I went three years, fully vaccinated, without catching it and then got it at the Trader Joe's across from the airport
Your AI overlord
a) Puts up a paywall requiring an active subscription to continue use
b) Shuts down because not enough people subscribed
c) Shuts down the services you use because they want to move on to some new shiny
d) Takes all the data you feed it and creates a high-profile, well-funded competitor to whatever you're working on
e) Starts poisoning your output once it's clear that you're competing with them
f) Starts poisoning your output to create subtle propaganda for their own products or political beliefs
g) Starts poisoning your output to create subtle propaganda for anyone who will pay them
...And those are just the failure modes I can think of in a couple of minutes off the top of my head.
It is not possible to teach anything like ChatGPT to only tell things that are the truth, because the model has no concept of that. Even if you tell ChatGPT to act like someone who only tells the truth, it can still generate falsehoods. Hallucination is a very apt word for the phenomenon as, to the model, lies and falsehoods and misleading statements are the same validity as absolute fact. They both become valid sentences. The very concept of language, as a medium of information exchange, does not provide any info about information validity. It's out of band.
When ChatGPT misleads someone, you cannot convince it to do that less, even if it """wants""" to, no matter how much you punish, encourage, require, etc.
Ok so you want to move back to gas combustion engines, stop deploying internet to rural and third world countries, clamp down on free speech, and make sure there are no tunnels, just elevated highways dividing cities. Is that about right?
You honestly couldn’t mismanage a company more than what he currently does with twitter - a goddamn cabbage would have done a better job, by literally not doing anything.
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.” - Sam Altman
Absent other non-technical changes, AI along the lines that the main commercial proponents are pursuing empowers the narrow set of capitalists who control it to more efficiently extract value from and exert power over everyone else.
“Empower us” and “enslave us” are both accurate, for different values of “us”.
(A few people riding the top of the capitalist-control-of-AI wave are trying to sell it as an existential threat to everyone, and to use that as an excuse to concentrate control of AI in their hands, to make social change in the opposite direction needed to mitigate the threat they themselves pose with AI; is this a real threat? If the shared threat is real, it is nowhere near as imminent and probable as the threat posed by those who are selling it.)