Comment by jcgrillo
3 days ago
"Safety" in AI is pure marketing bullshit. It's about making the technology seem "dangerous" and "powerful" (and therefore you're supposed to think "useful"). It's a scam. A financial fraud. That's all there is to it.
3 days ago
"Safety" in AI is pure marketing bullshit. It's about making the technology seem "dangerous" and "powerful" (and therefore you're supposed to think "useful"). It's a scam. A financial fraud. That's all there is to it.
Interesting claim; have anything to back it up with?
I can recommend Ed Zitron's latest on Anthropic.
So giving a gun to someone mentally challanged is not dangerous for you too?
were those goalposts heavy or did you use a machine to move them ?
"Safety" nuclear weapons is pure marketing bullshit. It's about making the technology seem "dangerous" and "powerful".
Legalize recreational plutonium!
wat
EDIT: more specifically, nuclear weapons are actually dangerous not merely theoretically. But safety with nuclear weapons is more about storage and triggering than actually being safe in "production". In storage we need to avoid accidentally letting them get too close to eachother. Safe triggers are "always/never" where every single time you command the bomb to detonate it needs to do so, and never accidentally. But once you deploy that thing to prod safety is no longer a concern. Anyway, by contrast, AI is just a fucking computer program, and at that the least unsafe kind possible--it just runs on a server converting electricity into heat. It's not controlling elements of the physical environment because it doesn't work well enough for that. The "safety" stuff is about some theoretical, hypothetical, imaginary future where... idk skynet or something? It's all bullshit. Angels on the head of a pin. Wake me up when you have successfully made it dangerous.
> It's not controlling elements of the physical environment
Right now AI can control software interfaces that control things in real life.
AI safety stuff is not some future, AI safety is now.
Your statement is about as ridiculous as saying "software security is important in some hypothetical imaginary future". Feel however you want about this, but you appear to be the one not in touch with reality.
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