Comment by pixl97
3 years ago
Pray tell, what are you going to do the moment it is not overhyped?
Sitting around on our asses going "We don't have AGI/ASI yet, nothing to worry about" is kinda like saying 'nuclear bombs are nothing to worry about' in 1940 while watching your neighbor create an every larger pile of uranium. To think we're not going to accomplish this eventually is foolishness, and when we've already accomplished it, it's going to be very difficult to setup a legal framework that reigns in corporate interests around it.
What are you even going to do? We have no agency to do anything with the march of society and technology. Business interests rule and we are fed information that aligns our interests with those as much as possible. I mean climate change is a much more real evil than startrekian fantasies about ai, and yet no one here is doing anything or marching in the street or blowing up oil refineries. There should be ten threads a day on the environment here if people gave a crap like they should. That should give you a preview of the level of political engagement of the current residents of the earth.
I’m gonna be doing whatever I’m gonna be doing. Job market changes all the time, and people adapt. I feel pretty secured (at least for some time) for my field, which is a lot of R&N in wireless networks/radio and embedded systems. My point is that current “AI” is just very well learned models, but it can’t really do intelligent work on its knowledge, can’t innovate, can’t infer, doesn’t have an actual thought process.