“Electricity is very dangerous, but when it is controlled, in the form of a wall outlet, the risk of harm is greatly reduced to consumers. AI, in it’s current state with minimal or easily bypassed protections, is like handing the consumer a live wire.”
I get that we should protect people from obvious danger but part of me struggles with the ridiculous levels of stupidity some of us fall prey to. I don’t know if it’s due to a misplaced sense of justice, cause and effect, or just me being a dick, but I want to let people deal with the consequences of their stupidity on their own. If a computer can convince you not to use your brain then I don’t think you were using it much to begin with.
Heard a god tier analogy from a friend:
“Electricity is very dangerous, but when it is controlled, in the form of a wall outlet, the risk of harm is greatly reduced to consumers. AI, in it’s current state with minimal or easily bypassed protections, is like handing the consumer a live wire.”
I get that we should protect people from obvious danger but part of me struggles with the ridiculous levels of stupidity some of us fall prey to. I don’t know if it’s due to a misplaced sense of justice, cause and effect, or just me being a dick, but I want to let people deal with the consequences of their stupidity on their own. If a computer can convince you not to use your brain then I don’t think you were using it much to begin with.
new technology presents new issues.
This is just a more accessible phone sex line. It tells you what you want to hear and charges you for it.
Electricity is useful tho
There are good uses for AI in science and medicine, primarily for number crunching and pattern recognition.
Not for making theories or decisions that require an understanding of those fields though.
Chat bots are just a cancer to humanity.
Here are some ways that AI has been helpful: https://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/news/10-wonderful-examples-using-artificial-intelligence-ai-good
^ I DO NOT AGREE WITH THE ENTIRE LIST ON THIS ARTICLE. ONLY SOME OF THESE DO I CONSIDER TO BE ‘USEFUL’.
Edit: Fuck AI “art”
like puncturing patients’ skulls because the machine god misidentifies organs?
If it wasn’t clear from the rest of the comment, I think it is a really stupid decision to put life or death decisions in the hands of a LLM.