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AI Worries [Die Shrink Telegrams] (Patreon)

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2023-05-03 19:16:59
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2026-06
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You all voted, and it was clear - the MLID community first and foremost wants more Off-Subject-ish Science discussions on Die Shrink...and we can't think of something with more buzz around it than AI!

ChatGPT is assisting in property sales, writers on strike are demanding protection from future "AI Writers", and Teslas are ramming into cop cars - we can't escape "AI" from appearing in the news every week! Write in below with your thoughts, questions, concerns, and hopes for how AI is developing!

You have ~24 hours (till Thursday Afternoon US Central Time) to submit below. Be concise (No walls of text), use good grammar, and be respectful to be considered.

Feel free to bring up stories not mentioned below, but we did want to include a smattering of recent news stories to get the ball rolling for those ignoring this space:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-a-whole-new-way-to-work/

https://apnews.com/article/ai-danger-superintelligent-chatgpt-hinton-google-6e4992e7a87d5bcae787ad45545757db

https://www.reuters.com/technology/plagiarism-machines-hollywood-writers-studios-battle-over-future-ai-2023-05-03/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/2/23708792/zillow-chat-gpt-plugin-alpha-release

https://www.engadget.com/german-artist-refuses-award-after-his-ai-image-wins-prestigious-photography-prize-071322551.html

Comments

Wasmachineman_NL

I have been abusing ChatGPT regularly for throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks regarding writing stories/fanfics. How do Tom and Dan think about people using things like ChatGPT to brainstorm?

Falto

I personally believe AI/robots aren't going to outright kill humans in the way media portraits. Where AI thinks humans not needed for earth so goes on a human extinction spree. But instead I think a "slow boil frog moment" is more likely where AI will slowly snip away things (for example jobs) and we won't realize it's real effects until much later.

AI Generated Fish

I am still of the opinion that AI, at its current level of development is more sizzle than steak. From a finance standpoint, I get that AI is the new crypto mining (from the standpoint Nvidia thinks it's a magic printing press for money) but in my opinion wall street has gone nuts. I don't see any reasonable way that Nvidia's revenues from AI will justify their meteoric rise in market cap.

KingHarkinian

AI is about a model (needs a decent engineer and a dose of luck) and a shitzillion FLOPS to compute the model on a large enough dataset. Thus, isn't AI leading us straight into a world where the corporation with the biggest pouch will win it all? Ultimately, it's about how many GPUs or AI chips you can buy above anything else. Isn't it "the richest takes it all"?

Cleansweep

Hey Tom and Dan, What are your thoughts on AI developers promoting a pause in AI development to sort out regulations on further development? Especially since a lot of them seem to share a concern about improved versions of existing AI potentially creating an Artificial General Intelligence that might harm humans in some way? I've seen some people poo-poo this concern in favor of focusing on more immediate issues, like AI automating away jobs and generating misinformation, but I feel like that presupposes the risk of accidental AGI will never occur, which seems like a really bad risk mitigation strategy.

Mischa Jablonski

Hello Tom and Dan. In your opinion, when will we see the first AI generated theory of quantum physics/relativity/the big bang? I mean by feeding the AI with i.e. astronomical/particle collider data and let the AI discover physics on its own and perhaps advance our understanding of the universe. Greetings from Germany

prick

ChatGPT is being used for academic dishonesty in so many institutions at the moment, including in multiple languages. A few of my friends have said to me they have done so. One said, "they can't detect filipino." It is a concern of mine that in the upcoming months and years as AI detection technologies advance, people in droves are going to have their diplomas and possibly even licenses taken away for running their assignments through AI. I don't mind running busywork assignments through a tool like this, but at some point look out for yourself. If the detection tools don't exist now, they will later, and they most definitely will run previous students work through the detection tools post-graduation. What are y'alls thoughts and experiences with this?

KingHarkinian

Hello, AI is essentially an extremely proficient imitator of known patterns. It will become incredibly apt at doing "basic" tasks, fairly apt at "experienced" tasks, and incapable at high level/creative tasks. Does this not mean that we're going to cut off almost all newbies in almost all job markets? Experienced...any profession with patterns (so any profession) will pass through, but beginners will be crushed. What's your thoughts?

Prior is the theme 999

Hello Tom and Dan, on a previous episode a discussion about AI came up and how it could possibly be a tool to aid in game development where as the main story will still be human curated and tuned but you get a handful of minor missions or side quest that are made by AI. My question is do you think AI created content would be a plus for the industry? Indie developers I’m sure it will help a lot, but I can’t help by believe AI will be a tool used to just become lazy or cut corners for Triple A Studios.

Alexander

Also curious about this / when AI/ML will be able to synthesize completely new info from data rather than (what I think is happening now) just re-combining bits and pieces that exist in a new way specific to our use case.

PCDog

If AI gets good enough to start taking over a significant amount of jobs then what are people going to do for work? Will we need a universal basic income (UBI)?

FloridaMan

Bing Chat has been transformative for my workflow; as a software engineer, I can just ask, "How can I perform this task in code?" And I get a well formed answer and commented example using features and practices of the latest coding standards. I particularly like that Bing Chat cites its sources so I can check its answers. This tool elevates Edge above Chrome/Bard for me, as Bard cannot form code last I checked. I await a specialized version of ChatGPT on the way so we can safely iterate on proprietary code.

FloridaMan

Hi Tom and Dan, What are your thoughts on what is possible with the small AI cores with AMD's mobile CPUs? Something other than just increasing battery life?

Steve

Howdy Tom and Dan, There are a lot of discussions right now around copyright law and copyrighted content as it relates to AI-generated content, such as art and music. Some argue that AI-generated content should not be eligible for any copyright protections. In contrast, others would say that AI (Stable Diffusion) is just a tool (no different from Photoshop in the Stable Diffusion example); therefore, any user-assisted AI-generated content should be eligible for copyright. Moreover, others would argue that anyone using AI trained with copyrighted content is committing copyright infringement. What do you think about this? What will copyright laws look like in an AI-generated world?

QuickJumper

I really get a good laughs from "evil ai" chatgpt derivatives that are hell bent on destroying the world. It's funny because even in terminator, skynet was basically a military AI that was supposed to protect government systems and it has executed it's plan silently with few people knowing what's going on. So the conclusion is. If there's an AI bent on destroying world I don't think it will tell you before it executes it plan.

Woody Chang

Hi Tom and Dan, What, if any, dream legislation/regulations would you like to see put in place for the future of AI?

10GHz Netburst

Do you think there is any reasonable way to make it so that data fed to AI models for training can avoid using copyrighted content? What will general AI models do if/when the use of copyrighted material for training is banned?

10GHz Netburst

Tesla has been claiming "full self driving" for years but has repeatedly forged demos using pre-programmed routes, how long do you think it will take for the general public to realise that "AI" doesn't immediately solve everything?

Treble Sketch

Given the usual lag in government regulation for technologies in general, will there even a remote chance of an industry-wide self-regulation adn/or standardisation for how AI/generative AI can be morally/ethically/sustainably used? Especially as the tech progresses within the current context of conservative neo-liberal capitalism countries. Since I am unsure how other progressive or centrism-leaning countries would handle this transition. As AI ties in with how different ideologies sees human labour/copyright protection/etc.

Chris Rijk

For the foreseeable future I think AI will be less impactful than computers as a whole have been. I think it's also easy to underestimate just what the human brain can do. But I also expect modern AI to easily surpass humans in some areas, like they already have for maths - let's not forget that a "computer" used to be an occupation for humans not machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)