Come on, don't be so dishonest. Compare similar things. This "tool" is designed to create humanlike realtime communication, and it's run by a billionaire rapist who just as easily have groomed the killer himself (thanks to it being a black box "live service", we don't know where the grooming came from, do we).
I remember your previous comment from another thread:
Vulnerable people don't get to outsource responsibility.
But apparently billionaires do.
As soon as I saw the word "existential", red flags went up for me, too. I looked, and of course, this is a piece of propaganda molded by a think tank.
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I'm kind of impressed how paranoid this piece is. I saw some MSM articles about "AIs making a religion" when these "religion"s were described and then discarded, but apparently whoever wrote this just assumed you'd been fed your media slop already, and he could focus on the doomsday scenario.
Wait... Did I misread you? What makes you 99% sure it's not AI?
If somebody on a forum was helping to plot ways to commit a crime, that person should probably be at least questioned. OpenAI's chatbot is that "somebody" in this case.
This part is at the bottom of the article, but Altman's promise to say sorry got an article of its own:
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And it quotes the premier singing the praises of Altman and AI:
Eby credited Altman for participating in the call, acknowledging he was not obligated to do so, and suggested that, based on a review by the premier’s staff, OpenAI has better reporting standards than any similar companies operating in Canada...
Eby called AI a technology with “incredible promise,” including in providing medical care and tackling issues such as climate change.
The last part is by far the dumbest. Medical care is grimly ironic when Canada has a doctor-assisted suicide problem, and climate change is something AI is accelerating. It's not going to generate a novel solution to it.
I agree, at least when it comes to seeing comments that were there (presuming they weren't removed).
What's the other side of the debate? CNNs are excellent at facial recognition and they've been around for decades.
To steal a comment:
[W]e're seeing the first instances of what reality looks like with AI in the hands of the average bear. Just like the excuse was "but the computer said it was correct," now we're just shifting to "but the AI said it was correct."
Don't underestimate how much authority and thinking people will delegate to machines. Not to mention the lengths they'll go to weasel out of taking responsibility for a screw up like this (saw another comment in this thread about the Chief of Police stepping down but it being framed as "retirement").
How do you view removed posts?
1981 was the year of the IBM PC, which was produced for 6 years and became a staple in the business world. Third-party software became widely available within a year. They were famous for the quality of the documentation.
Basically the opposite is true for AI's flagship LLMs, for every one of rise things. The creators are unable to make money, investors are getting nervous, their functionality is poorly explained to businesses, the list goes on.
Like I said, it is built to be human_like_. Of course it's not human or sentient, but Sam Altman sells ChatGPT with humanizing language, describes human attributes, and personally subsidized the grooming of people to commit suicide and homicide.