There are scenarios where kill -9 isn't going to happen in time. What if the team that is harming people with AI is different from the one that is monitoring the harm? What if no one is monitoring? What if the user is intentionally malicious?
And wiping out humanity doesn't necessarily mean shooting people either. Every trader involved in the '08 financial crisis was locally acting in their own interests. Those could have easily been AIs optimizing trading strategies too.
[1] https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/us-military-pen...
Do you think that AI killing us would not involve us doing stupid shit with AI first? Or do you have some strange idea that this strange AI we're talking about would just pop up out of nowhere like a miracle?
There is no AGI, there is no intellgent text predictor that is scheming to make us do stupid shit to wipe us off the map, its stupid people that evolution will take care of. We have survived this long, we will be ok. We make mistakes along the way but we somehow manage to survive. The only thing I see killing us soon is climate change, but again we can stop it but stupid people seem to want us to keep going down the path we are. We will eventually solve that problem too.
If anyone has any strange ideas, its those parroting the idea that LLMs are AGI and will lead to the death of humanity. Utter nonsense but again thankfully nature and evolution has a way of keeping the smart and strong while eliminating the weak.
> No one is dying from a glorified knowledge base that can do auto correct amazingly well.
All kinds of vulnerable people are dying due to LLMs. [0]
If SOTA LLM companies can benefit from the "intelligence", then they should also be liable for the harm caused.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots
By that logic, producers of hammers should be liable for people banged in the head. No. It does not happen for gun producers, you figure for makers of screwdrivers "sometimes used for stabbing".
That is what is going on here; not the ancient “hammer/gun” defense.
SOTA LLMs are giving both medical and psychological advice they have absolutely no authority to give. If you or I convinced someone to kill themselves, we’d face a prison sentence. [0]
Hammer companies aren't both selling you the hammer and then literally telling you to harm someone with it.
[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693807708/woman-who-provoked-...
LLMs are not doctors and anyone who think they may be is delusional. Anyone who followed medical advice from a non-doctor is responsible for his own free actions.
> SOTA LLMs are giving both medical and psychological advice they have absolutely no authority to give
People give advice that they have absolutely no authority to give. (Even medical doctors and psychologists, for that matter, on other aspects of authoritativeness.) Responsibility only happens in a relation that foresees it. A surgeon that commits negligence will more probably be responsible in some jurisdictions; a laymen that gives advice does a normal thing and the recipient of the advice is responsible for the action.
> Hammer companies aren't both selling you the hammer and then literally telling you to harm someone with it
Bring an LLM producer that encourages to follow what the LLM proposes and they will be liable. They will also be quite surprising.
And there are people that have much more credibility than him who actually take this scenario seriously. But I'm sure you will downplay them by saying they are tech bros or that they have some stake in being doomers (as if saying that AI might kill everyone would be good strategy for attracting investors - it's obviously not).
Quite contrary - I wish AI did not exist or at least that the progress would plateau.
> I Wonder why?
Because I don't want to die.
> Tell us who you work for.
I suspect you want to imply I work for OAI or other lab - I don't. If I did, I wonder why would I want to lie* that technology I develop could kill my investors. I could ask who YOU work for - what interest do you have in downplaying dangers of AI?
* here we assume that people who say AI could be extremely dangerous are lying and not actually believing it - personally I believe that they don't lie and actually believe it. Why do they keep working on this technology then? Read mails between Musk and Altman from decade ago.
A lot of these people say we're just talking "science fiction", but they have the cause and effect backwards. Sci-fi talks about different versions of killer AI or killer robots often because of how completely predictable it is.
Heh, if we die later than sooner I'd not be surprised if all these green accounts are actually bot networks trying to downplay us controlling them in the future.