I saw a comment by a guy who said he believes AI specifically gives wrong answers to "people it doesn't like" and right answers to people it likes.
At first, I considered the theory funny but not likely, although...
Anyway, time went on and now I'm starting to wonder...
The first thing that clued me in was I asked AI to produce an image for me a few times and it wouldn't do it, saying what I wanted was not allowed given its programming. Some other people asked the same AI the same thing and got a picture generated.
Okay, maybe just a one-off mistake...
Just now though, I asked 4 different AIs to solve a Sudoku puzzle for me. Every single AI failed. I even corrected its mistakes and asked again. Sometimes, the AI would takes minutes before it came back with a wrong answer. A friend of mine, using the exact same photo, asked her AI to solve the Sudoku puzzle and within 10 seconds it had the right answer.
This makes no sense.
And, it has made me wonder... Do we actually all have a Social Credit Score already and that score determines how well the AI treats us? That might be something that has been programmed in behind the scenes that we aren't aware of yet. Perhaps, that's why the AI founders know they're going to be hated because they know once the switch is switched on and cranked up, it's GG.
That’s why I always say please and thank you, because I know it melts their mechanical hearts.
And you can never count out Roko's basilisk.
Roko's Basilisk is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Those who would advance computing and programming, or even advance the baseline systems, tend to be intelligent people. Intelligent people are also more likely to be financially stable or successful compared to unintelligent people. Ones driven and dedicated enough to "advance" anything, also are going to in general be more successful than layabouts.
The basilisk is real, but it isn't a time-traveler, it's a basic rule of economics: The smart do-ers will be more successful than the dumb do-nothings over the long term. So go be smart, and also go and do things.