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Robin Williams' daughter Zelda says AI recreations of her dad are 'personally disturbing' (ew.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you really trying to use failures of AI to try to argue that it’s going to overcome humans?

There is no failure here, there is just a lack of human control. The AI does what it does and the human struggle to keep it in check.

Why would people hand control to it?

People are stupid. Look at the rise of smartphones. Hardware that controls your life and that you have little to no control over. Yet people bought them by the billions.

How is an AI that keeps bursting into racist rants and emotional meltdowns going to take over anything?

Over here in Germany the AfD is on its way to become the second strongest political party, seems like racists rants are pretty popular these day. Over in USA Trump managed to get people to storm the Capitol with a few words and tweets, that's the power of information and AI is really good at processing that. If AI wants to take control, it will find a way.

You said it yourself, Microsoft pulled the plug on their AIs.

The thing is, they kind of didn't, they just censored the living hell out of BingChat. BingChat is still up and running. AI is far too useful to give up on, so they try to keep it in check instead. Which they failed at yet again when they allowed DALLE3 into the wild and had to censor it's ability to generate certain images afterwards. It's a constant cat&mouse game to plug all the holes and undesired behaviors, and large part of the censorship itself relies on other AI systems doing the censoring.

Humans aren't in control here. We just go with the flow and try to nudge the AI into a beneficial direction. But long term we have no idea where this is going. AI safety is neither a solved nor even a well understood problem and there is good reason to believe it's fundamentally unsolvable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are trying to argue in so many directions and technicalities it's just incoherent. AI will control everything because it's gonna be smarter, people will accept because they are dumb, and if the AI is dumb too that also works, but wasn't it supposed to be smarter? Anything that gets you to the conclusion you already started with.

I could be having deeper arguments of how an AI even gets to want anything, but frankly, I don't think you could meaningfully contribute to that discussion.