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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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[–] 0 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I don't think computers only do what you program them to do anymore.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    Based on what? I have seen no evidence to the contrary

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    emergent behaviour and microscopic differences in huge amounts of parallel computations

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

    Emergent behavior meaning what?

    Which “microscopic” differences?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Hey, Socrates

    look for "emergent behaviour in computers" and specifically the non-programmed behaviour

    look for "floating point non determinism" to see how the same program can produce different results

    keep in mind you asked me on what I base that I think computers don't only do what they are programmed to do

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

    Not one of those so-called AI systems is an autonomous entity. Every one of these machine learning systems could be regulated, slowed down, or turned off. If a responsible human being was there to do it. Those CEOs simply refuse to take responsibility.

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