BU508A wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:32 am
The Economist about AI:
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation ... ma-shalizi
They describe AI as a monster like a Shoggoth from the H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu universe.
Quote:
"But what such worries fail to acknowledge is that we’ve lived among shoggoths for centuries, tending to them as though they were our masters. We call them “the market system”, “bureaucracy” and even “electoral democracy”. The true Singularity began at least two centuries ago with the industrial revolution, when human society was transformed by vast inhuman forces. Markets and bureaucracies seem familiar, but they are actually enormous, impersonal distributed systems of information-processing that transmute the seething chaos of our collective knowledge into useful simplifications."
[...]
"It is in this sense that LLMs are shoggoths. Like markets and bureaucracies, they represent something vast and incomprehensible that would break our minds if we beheld its full immensity."
It is only a monster because of our shameless willingness to foist off our own workload onto these idiot children of the silicon revolution. Like kids who grew up allowed to use calculators in grade school, the human supposedly in charge completely lacks the core skills to even know whether the answers the machine gives are correct.
Stupid, greedy people are inventing new ways to put competent human beings out of work by replacing them with this technology... when that's all it is, a machine with no actual intelligence. Just because it can speak and we think it makes sense
does not make it in any way intelligent.
Yeah, we've had computers running our lives for decades now... I get it... but
up til now, a human being has always made the decisions that the computer carries out. There is a huge material difference between that and where we are headed now at breakneck speed.
By the time we collectively realize just how well and truly fucked we are with that technology at the wheel, we won't be able to do anything aboot it.
mnem
