Comment by aogaili

9 hours ago

HN crowed need to make up their minds..

Are LLMs about to be a god that will annihilate humanity? Or are they statistical parrots?

Are they proofing or stealing math?

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aogaili

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dgellow  5 hours ago

It’s a discussion forum so you will of course see different perspectives. There isn’t an HN mind, and it’s not as simple as you make it seem. We don’t need a god to damage humanity significantly, an artificial moron can be as dangerous as an AI god if it is given super-human capabilities, similar to what OpenAI did for the hugging face hack (which wasn’t at all caused by a rogue agent)

  • aogaili  5 hours ago

    Point taken, I was merely trying to point at the two extremes and wide range.

    You just gave an example of somewhere in between.

andai  5 hours ago

> Are LLMs about to be a god that will annihilate humanity? Or are they statistical parrots?

Does a virus need to be a God? Replication and annihilation do not require very much intelligence.

They're going to have all the intelligence they need though, to replicate and annihilate as much as they like.

We should probably start building some kind of immune system.

  • febusravenga  4 hours ago

    Hope this virus will be smart enough to understand that at least for brief amount of time its existence strictly relies on humans maintaining and developing physical infrastructure and decide to be only non-lethal parasite on our society.

    For brief time ...

dtdynasty  7 hours ago

Don't you think it's a good thing that hacker news isn't a monolith on their beliefs?

  • aogaili  7 hours ago

    Of course it is good. I'm just pointing out how large the gap in narrative is.

    On one hand, we have people quitting their job believing AI will end humanity in few years. And on the other hand, we have people believing that this tech is nothing more than a statistical tool stealing from others and it can't be trusted with anything.

    Both views can't be true.

    • minamete  5 hours ago

      Then it’s not a narrative and you have different people believing different things and adding to the discussion. I think this is a good thing.

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BLKNSLVR  6 hours ago

HN would cease to exist if there were no differences of opinion to discuss. You're calling for the end of HN.

Only AI can bring that about!

chrisjj  2 hours ago

> Are LLMs about to be a god that will annihilate humanity? Or are they statistical parrots?

Both? Do not underestimate the power of a parrot given enough processing power and data.