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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 hours ago

We're creating alien beings

No we're not, shut the fuck up

[–] jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

This piece of crap technology is created by leonarci da vinto.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans

Is the selfishness in the room with us?

In all serious, choosing humans over AI of any type is seemingly always the correct answer.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 102 points 1 day ago

And now he says we’re going to call AI ‘superintelligence’. You can’t make it smarter than people just by calling it smarter than people.”

I actually laughed out loud. 😄

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

What we need are some regulations that are understandable and sensible.

[–] bjc@scribe.disroot.org 34 points 1 day ago (13 children)

it’s incredible how many godfathers ai has. i’ve lost count

weird i never hear about the godmothers though. wonder why that is?

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Godfather of AI:

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Let me point out for you the following (one of many articles) about: AI 'godmother' Fei-Fei Li.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

Ada Lovelace is the godmother of them all

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago (42 children)

It’s so demoralising to perpetually witness apparently intelligent people be convinced that Algorithmic Iterators can in any way be mistaken as a form of intelligence. I’ve struggled for decades to relate to the world; but this recent, collective debasement of rationality has nearly obliterated the few remaining foundations suitable to build hope upon.

[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why does the result of algorithmic iteration seem unintelligent to you?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Sounds like ELIZA's turn.

[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AI is about making machines that mimic human level intelligence. Whether they possess actual intelligence doesn’t matter. They just need to act intelligently.

You can disagree with the terminology, but it has been an active field of study since the 1950s.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Remember the Turing test? Damn goal posts move faster than the ball. I’m not sure how one could fail to be impressed by the technological advancements in the last 3 years in the field

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sort of.

I think Turing thought, "well something that could do this would surely HAVE to be intelligent", but I seriously doubt that he would have waved the white flag for an intelligence that can convincingly mimic human communication but can't count letters in a word.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Well the Test now includes casual tasks like counting letters, doesn’t it? You have to move your head in a certain way to spot the leopard in the shaded forest.

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[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You are assigning a magical meaning to the word intelligence. Your objection is superficial semantics. You are effectively being a science denier proudly displaying your ignorance as evidence. This anti-vax tier anti-ai circlejerk of ignorance as evidence is just the opposite side of the same ignorant coin. You are going to get pissed on by researchers and the actual smart people when are you are anti-ai like this you are not changing minds you are ignored. Seriously move off semantics it's just fucking embarrassing.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Your bulk discount tokens must have just hit your account, I’m honoured you chose to spend them replying to my post.

It’s always fascinating when an entity exhibits such a strong reaction to a critique of associating LLMs as intelligence, what was the prompt you engineered to conjure it?

I’ll concede my perspective of LLMs is limited, and skewed by agnostic ignorance as I’ve never actively, willingly, or consciously used one on purpose, but to accuse me of wilful ignorance smells more like Lynx Admission.

I’m not interested in the opinion or approval of anyone whose fallen for this grift, too much of my time and energy has been exhausted appeasing them. I’ll reengage with them once they wake up, or are excreted from the ‘AI’ logo sphincters, until then I need to relegate them as dark matter.

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I’ll concede my perspective of LLMs is limited,

but to accuse me of wilful ignorance smells more like Lynx Admission.

I like the way you have no ability to assert your opinions and just send insults it really highlights your character and my heart is moved. You can be a better person who intelligently argues their point or you can be a MAGAt tier anti-vaxx tier science denier and fight with your feelings. Guess which one I want for you? Move off semantics it's fucking embarrassing.

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[–] username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 day ago (13 children)

our biggest challenge will be accepting we’re not the only intelligent beings

But it isn't challenging at all. All animals have some level of intelligence. Some of them even rather comparable to us. And the probability of existence of some aliens doesn't sound too crazy, they might be quite clever too. See no problem in acceptance here.

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Roko's Basilisk was displeased at that.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not surprising that someone who evangelized artificial neural networks and algorithms like backpropagation at a time when people had largely written them off would have an inflated view of the technology’s potential.

Edit:

His peer, Yann LeCunn, seems to have a better perspective, basically stating that letting companies like Anthropic have a monopoly is the real threat to humanity: https://en.koreadaily.com/yann-lecun-ai-threat-humanity/

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