If it’s a super intelligence, why would it follow our instructions?
Depending on how it works, it may not be able to actually do anything, unless it starts out by wanting something. And it’s up to its creators to decide what it will initially want. Intelligence doesn’t necessarily make it any more likely to change what it wants – intelligence only makes it better at getting what it already wants.
Well, that’s why you need to be way smarter when setting your AI’s initial conditions. “Instruction: end all suffering” could indeed be extremely bad.
Or … you just have to hope that your new superintelligent AI is intelligent enough to re-align itself … and does so with good intentions.
Lawn mowers rely more on speed than sharpness. Even an extremely worn lawnmower blade will still cut grass if you give it enough RPM. They also have a lot more mass to be worn away than a pair of scissors.
Brother, I used to write code on a TI-83+ calculator.
It can be done.
Yeah, lol. Bluetooth keyboard + USB-C display adapter connected to a larger monitor, and the phone becomes kind of usable for coding.
Coding on an old flip phone with a 10-key keyboard would be analogous to cutting the field with nail clippers.
It’s also possible to cut an acre of grassland with scissors.
Honestly, I’m not sure it is. The scissors might get dull and stop being able to cut before you finish. (Grasses often incorporate silica into their structure to grind down the teeth of animals that try to eat it and thus discourage them from eating too much.)
They brought us HD, 4K, VR
They also brought us video streaming and online payment systems. Both were technologies pioneered by porn sites.
They can watch my VPN IP download shit all day. Have fun with that.
But in certain circumstances, the Europeans will still use it with an a. Specifically, when referring to the color of a horse.
it’s not unlikely that Google will pull the plug on AI summaries on searches from the Federal Republic. Finally, a reason to point your VPN at Berlin.
Or … you could be using DDG with AI turned off this whole time.
Well, that’s why I said real superintelligent AI. What we’ve got now sure ain’t it.
Humans are trapped by their psychology into corrupt systems until we destroy ourselves.
Honestly, I think the Singularity – real superintelligent AI – might be our only chance of escaping this cycle of stupid. There’s a chance that our new AI overlords could be benevolent and above this petty human bullshit.
The problem is the fox got back in the henhouse after we took it out.
Yep. Sweeping market regulations were put in place after the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression.
Most of those reforms have already been removed now, in the ever-popular name of ‘removing unnecessary regulation’.
What? Last I heard, Debian Stable was one of the last few holdouts that hadn’t gone Wayland yet.
Ah, are you the kid who ate 10 batteries and lived?
There will be tools to interact with Wayland
I don’t really like the hypothetical sound of this.
xdotool is essential for keeping some of my basic hardware usable.
(Yeah … more and more, I think I’m going to be a very late adopter of Wayland. I was planning on Debian Stable for my next install anyway…)
Wayland has basically come (as part of the plan) to replace X11
As part of whose plan?
the progression of X11
Unless they reach feature parity, it’s a fork, not a progression.
You keep reading “LLM” when I say “AI”.
I really don’t think LLMs will ever be superintelligent or true AI. They’re merely text prediction engines. Maybe an LLM will be part of a true AI – like the speech center of the AI’s brain. But the speech center alone can never be superintelligent … or even truly intelligent at all.