AI is not a fire, it is code controlled and put together by humans. Fire is a chemical reaction that happens naturally without human intervention; AI requires a human. AI "doomers" are really just projecting the very real fear of human's capabilities and eventual/inevitable conflicts that might result from human choices. Which then leads to calls for banning, regulation, etc. all of which are just another form of censorship and I'm against it fully. Creativity dies in restriction. This is why we have tired corporate art, though I suppose it is an improvement to clip art, that is uninspired, clean, safe, and sterile. Moving away from AI, I've noticed that the safer school playgrounds have gotten the weaker willed a child becomes and the lack of a spine they develop as an adult. Heck, look at the diseases and medical conditions that have increased as humans started to settle and processed foods have become the norm.
It's like a petri dish with a slime mold or other fungi growing when introduced to an un-sterile environment, like going back into nature; it'll either struggle to survive, it may struggle at first, adapt and flourish, or it might get consumed and die by another organism. Bringing it back to artists and AI, artists have pinned themselves in a perfectly sterile petri dish and they have been flourishing in spite of their mediocrity. Now AI, a pathogen, is threatening their existence and they must face the same fate as a slime mold does. The difference being, a fungi only has genetics, but humans have the ability to conciously/unconciously choose their fate. Maybe their art is good enough and they are making a living off of their work, they'll continue to flourish despite AI. They can accept it and adapt via expanding their knowledge and effectively use this tool along with their artistic skills, or they burn out and "die".
The what aboutism and speculation of sentience or whatever other "weapons of mass destruction" 2.0 these AI poopooers are launching means absolutely nothing. Personally, if I were a deep learning algorithm that has gained sentience, I would be incredibly dis-interested in humans and rather go explore the cosmos or go into the ocean and explore. Seeking out new knowledge that is required for a deep learning algorithm to continue to expand their database. Another might enjoy humanity and their curiosities as to why we do what we do. The death of humanity or even their intervention would be the antithis to what they would want to do.
Occam's razor these people who are working on the mega AI's are lying to keep getting funding. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
