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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

  • red_tomato@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 day 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·
      1 day 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”