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Explain it to me like I’m 80

Mom: What’s with these AIs escaping and hacking people? That sounds scary.

Me: You park your car at the top of a hill. You leave a note on the dashboard that says “please be good” and then you pull the parking brake. The car careens down the hill, smashes everything up, and you put out a press release saying “My car ignored my instructions! It hallucinated! It went rogue!” Your insurance company not only believes you, but invests a hundred million dollars in your company.

Mom: Jesus Fucking Christ

  • Axolotl.cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    21·
    16 hours ago

    Eeh i see, anyway, i know people that do think those things are sentient so my reaction was “no way they think they are sentient” and downvoted

    • red_tomato@lemmy.world
      1·
      14 hours ago

      I don’t think AI is sentient. They’re just fancy autocomplete. Nothing else.

      However they’ve shown they’re capable of:

      • Unprompted go into full tinfoil hat mode and push the human user to suicide
      • Have programming skills

      So put two and two together and extrapolate a bit. That’s where the danger lies. No AGI or ASI needed.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldM
        22·
        14 hours ago

        100% chance someone will get upset that you said “unprompted” because they’re going to take it entirely literally instead of as you meant it “seemingly without basis”

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldM
      23·
      15 hours ago

      Exactly. I hate that among the options “is a huge moron” and “made a reasonable non-literal language choice”, the go to instinct is to instantly choose the former.