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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
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I'm not an AI techie and I'm not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I'm having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I've heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can't really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

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[–] 68 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I knew a guy in high school that told girls they shouldn't date him because his dick was so big it would hurt them. You can wax philosophical on his motives if you'd like, but spoiler alert - his dick wasn't big.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago

    That's exactly what I think is happening. Remember a few months ago anthropic saying mythos is too dangerous to release until the government as the idiots they are starting believing them and banned them from exporting it, therefore losing them money. Very quickly they came up with fable (ironic name isn't it) a week or two later saying it's got the proper safeguards now. Now they're all trying this marketing strategy asking the gov to regulate them, seemingly because they're dangerous and not because they're getting diminishing returns and feel threatened by the chinese competition

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Did it work?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    What's funny about this comment is that I have you tagged as "doesn't like mini game boys" because of a post you made some time ago (referencing those portable retro gaming handhelds that have become so popular lately).

    "He told everyone his shlong was huge." "Did it work?" "Naw, his schlong was actually small." "Damn, I hate mini-game boys."

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Strong doubt.

    High school girls don't want that. They don't want big dicks, or to talk to guys who brag about their dicks, or show their dicks, or send pictures of their dicks. Gooner graduated a virgin.

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