• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    7 days ago

    Look, if this is a religious/spiritual belief system around AI for you as it is for many people I can’t convince you AI is bullshit, but there is simply no evidence AI is going to take over, that tech companies aren’t completely bullshitting, that AI is profitable or that people actually want it for work… MOST IMPORTANTLY only a SMALL FRACTION of the datacenters needed to build these supposedly unstoppable AIs are actually breaking ground and being built.

    The thing that limits AI is that we physically cannot build enough datacenters to mitigate its stupidity and hallucination enough to compete with humans on things that actually matter.

    Yes you could train an AI on videos of successful human piloted interceptions, but you still have to make that dataset, you still have to update it every time battlefield tactics change, and you still have to figure out how to filter out all the nonsense the AI introduces in the training.

    In other words, AI is only unstoppable if it is inputted with an impossible amount of energy, this is used as a trick to handwave away the serious problematic issues at the heart of current AI/LLM based design.

    A human by contrast is powered by a PB&J sandwhich…

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      7 days ago

      “It’s not happening fast enough so it’s not happening at all”

      Between opening with the ad hominim and closing with a laughable strawman… You’ve got your head in the sand my dude.

      AI being bullshit is not mutually exclusive with it being an existential threat to our freedom.

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        You are the one acting foolish by assuming that because you can imagine something becoming existentially dangerous when it has shown zero evidence of doing so… that we should prioritize focusing on it when we have things like Climate Change that are actually existential threats.

        Yes, anything could become an existential threat, I will however focus on the realistic most likely existential threats because otherwise I will spend my whole life worried that sky is falling while propping up the value of snake oil salesman tech companies.

        I would suggest ingesting less scifi slop about AI and taking an interest in actual existential issues threatening us.

        Where is my strawman argument?

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          7 days ago

          Where is my strawman argument?

          it has shown zero evidence of doing so

          Like were you born in 2022? You’re so angry about this. Exactly what I’m afraid of. That a lot of people who aren’t hopping on board with AI will just sit on the internet and gloat about their limited perspective until it’s too late for us to do anything collective that doesn’t involve violence.

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            7 days ago

            Again, stop trying to fear monger about a perceived existential threat while providing no evidence when there are ACTUALY existential threats like Climate Change we are facing.

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              7 days ago

              fear monger

              Calm down. This is lemmy. Like 8 people are going to see this and all of them can form their own opions. unlike you.

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                Why do I have to calm down because this is lemmy?

                Are you not putting effort into your conversation or investing yourself in defending your points just because you don’t think this post will be popular?

                Do you think I give a shit about that?