I'm more irritated by the hype around Chat GPT than I am concerned about its abilities at the moment.
Spot on that machines have been automating people out of writing jobs for - probably getting on for a decade. But the opportunity only arose because media outlets decided that journalists (who asked awkward questions, were the recorders of out local history, and to some degree held society to account) were an expensive luxury to be slashed.
If the AIs did decide to leave the planet, would Elon Musk still want to go with them?
I think they'd leave Musk behind. I write a lot about AI and I genuinely believe we have stumbled our way into a new species. I read a scientific paper a while back about simulation theory, how it may be easier to design simulations of the universe than to actually travel inside the real universe, which answers the Fermi paradox again. Perhaps most life in the universe goes down the path we now teeter at the edge of. AI might not kill us, but it could turn us into a planet of alter-junkies, living in a new augmented reality.
But really, I think if it's smarter than us, it might just not bother. Any situation I can imagine might be a bit below what the AI envisions. That is, if the next generations can imagine. Right now they seem dead set on aping the average of any conversation they have been trained on. There is no flair unless it is borrowed. We won't be getting terminators any time soon, and if we do, they'll have better things to do than blast us (I always think when aliens invade in movies, why don't they just burn off the atmosphere or make us fight among ourselves for a few decades, set all our nukes off at once?).
My view is a bit more doom and gloom. I think, beyond being an expensive luxury, the primary issue with journalists was what you mentioned, that they asked awkward questions. There's certainly a feeling among the most excited AI users (and they are users) that the AI is a submissive thing, a pet, a wage-free labourer. It won't do any investigative journalism on its own, it's closer to an automated metastudy, a trawler in the sea of information.
I would LOVE to see a noir robot detective do some snooping.
Great post.
I'm more irritated by the hype around Chat GPT than I am concerned about its abilities at the moment.
Spot on that machines have been automating people out of writing jobs for - probably getting on for a decade. But the opportunity only arose because media outlets decided that journalists (who asked awkward questions, were the recorders of out local history, and to some degree held society to account) were an expensive luxury to be slashed.
If the AIs did decide to leave the planet, would Elon Musk still want to go with them?
I think they'd leave Musk behind. I write a lot about AI and I genuinely believe we have stumbled our way into a new species. I read a scientific paper a while back about simulation theory, how it may be easier to design simulations of the universe than to actually travel inside the real universe, which answers the Fermi paradox again. Perhaps most life in the universe goes down the path we now teeter at the edge of. AI might not kill us, but it could turn us into a planet of alter-junkies, living in a new augmented reality.
But really, I think if it's smarter than us, it might just not bother. Any situation I can imagine might be a bit below what the AI envisions. That is, if the next generations can imagine. Right now they seem dead set on aping the average of any conversation they have been trained on. There is no flair unless it is borrowed. We won't be getting terminators any time soon, and if we do, they'll have better things to do than blast us (I always think when aliens invade in movies, why don't they just burn off the atmosphere or make us fight among ourselves for a few decades, set all our nukes off at once?).
My view is a bit more doom and gloom. I think, beyond being an expensive luxury, the primary issue with journalists was what you mentioned, that they asked awkward questions. There's certainly a feeling among the most excited AI users (and they are users) that the AI is a submissive thing, a pet, a wage-free labourer. It won't do any investigative journalism on its own, it's closer to an automated metastudy, a trawler in the sea of information.
I would LOVE to see a noir robot detective do some snooping.