I always thought Dune’s Butlerian Jihad was one of the more fantastical elements of the story, but now it’s probably one of the more realistic.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Emphasis added. Not an AI Skynet takeover, but a tech-oligarch takeover. It's increasingly not fictional.
Of course, we're probably safe while these things lack agency (although the ability of agency and hype human VCs already generate behind some of the current AI landscape can be pretty scary).
You're mistaken, there are only 6 Dune books, all by Frank Herbert himself.
I'm joking, but not joking.
Here's a case where we often just trust the machine, and how that ends up going: https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-algorithm...
There are no real independent AI agents out there right now (or if there are, well, maybe they're lurking in this thread. Douglas would have loved that).
if making choices (badly) is agency, then a random number generator has agency.
LLMs are very transparent, what makes them safe, but other forms of AI are already being used to capture the public's mind.
Emphasis added. Not "Thou shalt not make a machine mind". You have to read the text carefully.
A portrait of a person is a likeness of a person; but is not a person or even on the way to being one. Even a cartoon can contain a "likeness" if you recognise the person parodied in it.
I do not regard chatGPT and LLMs as "having a mind" at all or even being on the way to having one. But a likeness, an imitation, a mockery, a parody of a mind, yes that fits.