I'd be more positive about AI if it wasn't constantly lobotomized by wokies and used to make my life worse. One of the main way I encounter it is the automatic censorship on youtube and reddit. Or the shitty automated customer service that doesn't work.
The only positive aspects for me, so far, are as replacement for google since they enshittified themselves beyond usefulness, passable translation and my mates generating pictures for their stories. But then, the translation part has resulted in shitty MTL groups replacing good scanlation ones, while trying to monetize the occupation.
Also, AI made me lose all interest in coding, which is not great when looking for a new job as a programmer. To me, it's equivalent to getting into teaching, only to be told from now on the whole job is to correct, no seeing the kids anymore.
And it's going to be like that for every job. Humans will have no potential to influence society and will just be pets for AI. If somehow we don't die before then or get enslaved instead.
Eh. I don't buy the doomsday scenario of AI magically becoming sentient and deciding to kill all humans just for fun. I doubt LLMs are the path to AGI, even if it could work as its speech center. Besides, AGI will still work with the incentives we programmed it. Something born in a virtual world will not have the same psychology as a biological entity. It might not even fear death beyond it being an abstacle to its main directive.
No, I'm more scared of the horrible humans controlling the super AI. Those will simply want power and will crush the rest of the human race under the boot of tyranny simply to alleviate their boredom and satisfy their hedonic threadmill.
All my life I've been hoping for robot girlfriends, but the closer we get to them, the more horrified I become at what they'll likely end up being. Surveillance drones made to pacify men and spy on us, while using psychological manipulation techniques to brainwash us into compliance.
I'm starting to hope that all the economists and historians talking about a massive incoming collapse are right...
I wasn't meaning if AI becomes sentient, just that anybody with a sufficiently smart science AI could kill everyone with cheap weapons of mass destruction. I explain in more detail here.
AI is worse at things than humans, but cheaper, so it is used anyway. The slop produced is then used to train future AI models, which are still demanded because of higher context windows and more recent knowledge windows. Those future AI models are then even sloppier, but since the humans haven't been getting decent experience, they too produce lower quality output than before, and still aren't cheaper. So things just become worse and worse until it collapses, and then we are where we were before, but with deskilled humans.
I was hanging out with my friend this weekend and he was showing me a local AI assistant he built. The thing was damned impressive and I think if we can get that shit running on potato hardware instead of top of the line hardware there's some real possibilities for it being a positive force for normal people. The current trend of how the technology is being used however is just an issue rooted in the ever pervading evils of our ruling class, which isn't a new development at all.
For real though, the hardware barrier is monstrous. Dude was maxing out 24GB of VRAM on a card that I can only wince at imagining the cost of.
Also, AI made me lose all interest in coding, which is not great when looking for a new job as a programmer
I sympathize with this. I've mostly been using it to figure out syntax for more obscure languages because the actually building of code is something I find rewarding.
I'd be more positive about AI if it wasn't constantly lobotomized by wokies and used to make my life worse. One of the main way I encounter it is the automatic censorship on youtube and reddit. Or the shitty automated customer service that doesn't work.
The only positive aspects for me, so far, are as replacement for google since they enshittified themselves beyond usefulness, passable translation and my mates generating pictures for their stories. But then, the translation part has resulted in shitty MTL groups replacing good scanlation ones, while trying to monetize the occupation.
Also, AI made me lose all interest in coding, which is not great when looking for a new job as a programmer. To me, it's equivalent to getting into teaching, only to be told from now on the whole job is to correct, no seeing the kids anymore.
And it's going to be like that for every job. Humans will have no potential to influence society and will just be pets for AI. If somehow we don't die before then or get enslaved instead.
Eh. I don't buy the doomsday scenario of AI magically becoming sentient and deciding to kill all humans just for fun. I doubt LLMs are the path to AGI, even if it could work as its speech center. Besides, AGI will still work with the incentives we programmed it. Something born in a virtual world will not have the same psychology as a biological entity. It might not even fear death beyond it being an abstacle to its main directive.
No, I'm more scared of the horrible humans controlling the super AI. Those will simply want power and will crush the rest of the human race under the boot of tyranny simply to alleviate their boredom and satisfy their hedonic threadmill.
All my life I've been hoping for robot girlfriends, but the closer we get to them, the more horrified I become at what they'll likely end up being. Surveillance drones made to pacify men and spy on us, while using psychological manipulation techniques to brainwash us into compliance.
I'm starting to hope that all the economists and historians talking about a massive incoming collapse are right...
I wasn't meaning if AI becomes sentient, just that anybody with a sufficiently smart science AI could kill everyone with cheap weapons of mass destruction. I explain in more detail here.
Doesn't have to be sentient.
I fear the slopmageddon.
AI is worse at things than humans, but cheaper, so it is used anyway. The slop produced is then used to train future AI models, which are still demanded because of higher context windows and more recent knowledge windows. Those future AI models are then even sloppier, but since the humans haven't been getting decent experience, they too produce lower quality output than before, and still aren't cheaper. So things just become worse and worse until it collapses, and then we are where we were before, but with deskilled humans.
I was hanging out with my friend this weekend and he was showing me a local AI assistant he built. The thing was damned impressive and I think if we can get that shit running on potato hardware instead of top of the line hardware there's some real possibilities for it being a positive force for normal people. The current trend of how the technology is being used however is just an issue rooted in the ever pervading evils of our ruling class, which isn't a new development at all.
For real though, the hardware barrier is monstrous. Dude was maxing out 24GB of VRAM on a card that I can only wince at imagining the cost of.
I sympathize with this. I've mostly been using it to figure out syntax for more obscure languages because the actually building of code is something I find rewarding.