Silicon Valley companies yet again deciding if they should involve themselves in affairs they have no business being a part of. Where the fuck is Congress?? Oh right, eating out of these fuckers’ platinum assholes.
There’s obviously no way this could ever go wrong, Silicon Valley companies always make decisions based on what’s ethically and morally best for everyone, so I’m sure they’ll make the right call.
I love the idea of a fancy autocomplete trained on Reddit and 4-chan deciding whether or not someone should be murdered or not. Sounds like a fantastic idea.
Of course, given how jank what we've decided to call "AI" is if you tried to make a real Slaughterbot it'd probably be blowing up random people or patches of the wall that it thought looked like a face.
They want autonomous weapons and they want AGI to save us from climate change. I don't believe AGI will happen but they'll probably settle for faking something that fools the masses and lets them set the agenda. Then it's flame throwing robot dogs for everyone.
The current discussions of LLM and algorithmic learning being referred to as "Artificial Intelligence", is super duper frustrating to all us science fiction fans. There is no AI in the Asmiov sense, no one is even trying to make that form of AI.
Having said all that, and this is the coldest take ever. Robots shouldn't kill people.
At best, LLMs are a small slice of a pie that would constitute an artificial intelligence.
I suppose you could look at this 2 ways: either, when we talk about the state of AI, we could say that, yes, we have it, but only this one small part that kinda works ok; or (the more traditional route) would be to say that AI doesn’t exist until all of the constituent technologies have been both developed and assembled.
Obviously, we know which one the marketing departments of many companies choose.
Doesn’t matter because AI will be weaponized against the masses no matter what your opinion of it is. It’s the billionaires with the money and influence to make sure it becomes a weapon and they will 100% be beneficiaries of said weapons so OF FUCKING COURSE they will use it.
Ok so just imagine this guy doing a TED presentation ala Weyland in the first Alien reboot movie, and just splice that as the intro to the first Terminator movie.