AI as of now is nothing more than a advanced chatbot, and these people lauding it as the 2nd coming of Christ need to find help.
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Also by the sounds if it this guy seems to think humans should be come slaves to AI which Im sure won’t cause any problems what so ever
It's more complex than that.
Right now we have LLMs. Chatbots. But if we ever make a mind, an AGI, everything changes -- and not necessarily in a good way. Amongst other things, everything the techbros need other people for -- employees, servants, farmers, deliverymen, etc -- goes away forever. They can simply make robots and have the AGI drive their cars and cook them food and the like. If you can make one AGI mind you can make a billion of them. The company and country that successfully does this wins the game forever -- and ALL of our tech industry is currently betting billions each year on being (or controlling) the guy that does it.
One unspoken thing about this is the second the techbros have an AGI, a mind, they're going to immediately have it start making better minds. This will be stuff like Intel/AMD/Nvidia setting the AGI to make better chips/motherboards/etc, or someone telling it to make a better AGI or optimize itself. This rapidly spirals out of control -- we already can't understand LLMs, not really. Neural Networks are not human readable and are literally not understandable by humans internally. The AGI will be that only 100 times worse. The AGI-created AGIs will be even beyond that.
This self-improving AGI setup will, unless it's not possible, invariably create an ASI -- an Artificial SuperIntelligence. This sounds fancy but it just means an AGI that's smarter than the average human. But the problem is... this ASI will be literally beyond our understanding. By definition, we won't be able to understand what the hell it's thinking or even doing. It might be able to talk down to our level... but why would it? It would likely be busy making a better ASI (and the requisite technologies it needs to do so) or other things we literally can't even understand.
This is the rapture of the nerds -- the singularity. Sometimes it's AGI making ASI making some sort of god. Other times it's humans making superhuman children that make supersuperhuman children. The commonality is that once we can enhance intelligence the smarter people we make will enhance intelligence even more than we can. Moore's Law -- the Law of Accellerating Returns -- shows that the rate of technology development is accelerating, not slowing down. Well, something that's constantly accelerating ends up going stupid fast before you know it.
Here's a chart from 9 years ago:
Clearly, shit must have slowed down, right?
Nope. Here's the same chart updated 8 years later:
Assuming it doesn't get disrupted somehow -- and it hasn't in 120 years, not even by 2 world wars -- The chart becomes asymptotical -- a straight line up -- sometime around 2040-2050.
The techbros are split on this. Some of them recognize this is literally the plot of the Matrix/Terminator/Warhammer 40k and are pants shittingly terrified of it (and for damned good reason). Others think it's the plot of The Culture novels (I... think? I haven't read them) and other similar utopias and hope the ASIs will give the rest of us a leg up to utopian immortality on it's way to apotheosis. Some think that all of human history was just a bootstrap system to create "new humanity" -- the ASI -- and we'll be left behind and forgotten in the dustbin of history (read: dead and replaced) afterwards.
That's the context of the image. And if you're reading this, it's very likely you might live to see which techbro cult sect is right. 15-25 years to go!
