I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I'm not that frightened by it. It's awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won't completely upend society. I'll have articles abound on AI hype, because they're quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it's way harder to fake actual evidence.
I also want to factor in people who think that there's nothing anyone can do. I've come to realize that there might not be a way to attack OpenAI, MidJourney, or Stable Diffusion. These people, which I will call Doomers from an AIHWOS article, are perfectly welcome here. You can certainly come along and read the AI Hype Wall Of Shame, or the diminishing returns of Deep Learning. Maybe one can even become a Mod!
Boosters, or people who heavily use AI and see it as a source of good, ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE! I've seen Boosters dox, threaten, and harass artists over on Reddit and Twitter, and they constantly champion artists losing their jobs. They go against the very purpose of this community. If I hear a comment on here saying that AI is "making things good" or cheering on putting anyone out of a job, and the commenter does not retract their statement, said commenter will be permanently banned. FA&FO.
I have a question about if I'm allowed to be here. Here's my stance:
What you are describing is not AI. It's text2speech and speech recognition which has been around for 30 years. Same with extracting text from an image.
Look into kaldi and openfst which have been around for ages.
The issue is with rising energy and water costs to train models. Which is bad enough but what corps are really after is to create autonomous kill bots. Should we all live in tents starving cuz a few want to have killbot swarms to harass everyone with?
Just cuz some have been sufficiently bribed to say it's a good idea doesn't mean society should allow misallocation of finite scarce and vital resources
Not the mod, but IMO anyone who has a rational outlook on AI is fine. That is, it's a technology that has some use cases for some problems, mostly involving neural net stuff that the average person will probably never interact with.
The problem people are the ones who insist that it will 'revolutionize society', that the well-documented errors of the tech are overblown, that it's not currently in a bubble, that it's not being used in utterly unethical ways that nobody asked for, that AGI is just around the corner, etc.
Personally, I have P(AGI within 10 years) around 15%. I think anyone who is saying definitely no or definitely yes to AGI within this time frame is vastly overconfident in their understanding of the technology, one way or the other. Or they vastly underestimate the utility of bullshit. Of course, I also have P(doom|AGI) probably around 40-70%.
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