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Now they just use LLM to generate formulas to calculate tariffs that fit their fantasy. Gosh I wish they actually taste their own failure for once not just constantly fail up.
LLMs aren't the enemy, malicious politicians are
Why not both?
Because it's a naive take. Technology can help us make the world a better place for all - standing in the way are greedy pigs and asshole, ignorant politicians.
"AI" isn't the problem, our approach to it is.
Kinda sorta.
AI, or rather LLMs, can barf out a lot of passable text quickly. That can be useful as a starting point for something useful, if a human mind is willing and able to review and repair it. It's like having an idiot intern whom you can never really trust.
But the number of people who use LLMs in a way that reflects and understanding of their limitations is diminishingly small. Most people just don't assume that something that looks valid needs to be fully and critically reviewed. That's why we've had multiple cases of lawyers having ChatGPT write theis legal briefs based on hallucinated legal precedent.
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show me that magic llm which doenst infringe the copyright of nearly everybody, which doesnt have an unprecedentet impact on the enviroment to train and run, which wont be used to cut of people from their income, which isnt owned by technocratic billionaire assholes, which isnt peddled and promoted by fascist goverments, which doesnt halluzinate, which isnt a blackbox, which actually works and doesnt fail at the simplest tasks sometimes, which doesnt infringe my privacy(allegedly tbf, but you know). the list goes on.
sure, sure technology itself isnt evil. but thats not a hill i want to die on in case of llms. they're problematic on so many levels. full stop. i dont think its a naive take to have some skepticism against this clusterfuck. potentially some technologies could make the world a better place. but llms dont fit into this category.
Okay, but hear me out, what if we make one that isn't dumb?
Machines. Should. Not. Think.
I really don't see how we could state this any more clearly.
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If the safeguards can be so easily removed, what's the point of putting them there in the first place
As safeguards age, they should have become harder to remove. But these are pretty young.
Ah this must be because it did such a good job taxing penguins
Never attribute to AI that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
If you dig in to the tariff calculation, it's simply trade deficit / 2, the other two variables are constants that cancel eachother out. AI would probably do a better job making a complex algorithm, this is just a lazy human adding some flourishes to BS their way through.
I know the formula, but the joke is about the claim that they used the AI to get the formula
Ah, ok. I would've expected AI to hallucinate something more interesting. I just assumed it was just a shoddy job at hiding the simplicity of the formula and making it look more "mathy."
Now I'm frightened to my core.
AI doesn't scare me.
People making decisions off of AI scare me.
The government mandating people use AI to make decisions frightens me to my core.
AI should scare you. People will just dump everything on AI and then let it fuck over your life. What happens if AI flags you as a terrorist and your drivers license is suspended, or your health care is cancelled? What happens if AI says you're fraudulently collecting social security? There's nobody to blame, because they'll just blame the computer.
That's the crux of my statement, yes.
AI doesn't scare me.
How people respond to it scares me
And that it's being prepared to drive/copilot government agencies scares the everliving shit out of me.
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So far the Trump administration and the Federal government under him don't need AI to justify stupid, globe-wrecking policy.
AI told me to do [wrongful action] is no more a valid excuse than I was just following orders. At least not to an international tribunal or a (seriously peckish) public.
It might not be a valid excuse, but it gets that kind of play in the press (and, therefore, public opinion/support) as discussed in this Citations Needed podcast episode A.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic
I was gonna say, it certainly allows insurance companies to launder their original intentions as "oopsy, AI made us deny all those claims (we wanted to deny anyway), don't be mad at us" and then people bitch about the bad AI causing all these issues instead of the insurance company who wanted the exact same outcome, regardless of AI.
All that said, I'm giving another recommendation that people go subscribe to Citations Needed.
I don't necessarily oppose the use of AI as a tool for humans to utilize, but I do have issues with it dictating policies or control over human beings. By the people, for the people, absolutely does not include AI. (Sorry Data, not yet)
Also, any prompts and prompt instructions should be public with results. It is just way too easy to fuck up.
if america is so dominant in ai why did one chinese open source llm take billions off the market cap
Ibm helped the holocaust. AI companies will do the same now.
Not just AI companies, but pretty much if not all big tech companies in the US. Wait, still not broad enough...
Is this like that Nazi salute guy's promise of safe full self driving?
AI is wrong so often this is extremely scary.
They can also do evil things and "blame" it on AI.
The AI said to nuke the planet
Trump: Ok, AI knows best...derrrp
Jfc
Just another attempt to rob American workers of their dignity. Workers of the US, you have been played!
Ted Kaczynski was a bad dude, yes, but dammit we're going to find out he was right all along, aren't we?
I know there's some that roll their eyes at the mention of AI safety, saying that what we have isn't AGI and won't become it. That's true, but that doesn't eliminate the possibilities of something in the future. And between this and China's laxness of trying everything to be first, if we get to that point, we'll find out the hard way who was right.
The laughable part is that the safeguards put up by Biden's admin were very vague and lacking of anything anyway. But that doesn't matter now.
I'm more annoyed that this means that federal employees are now going ot use chat GPT for everything.
Bet it'll be grok
Keep worrying about entirely hypothetical scenarios of an AGI fucking over humanity, it will keep you busy so humanity can fuck over itself ten times in the meantime.
You're correct, it's more likely that humans will use a lesser version (eg. an LLM) to screw things up, assuming it's doing what it says it's doing while it's not. That's why I say that AI safety applies to any of this, not just a hypothetical AGI. But again, it doesn't seem to matter, we're just going to go full throttle and get what we get.
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AHA! I KNEW IT! Trump, MAGA and the freedom caucus is all just a front for the robot apocalypse movement.
Trump crashes the global economy and then the robots come in saying We'll fix everything We'll use logic!
Guarantee they start using the X platform. Can't recall the name
AI keeps sending funding to the asteroid detection guy, the DNA vaccine people, the bee people and other climate change people too. It wants to send money to the education department but we fixed that! We're so good at AI! Oh look, it keeps saying stuff about Louisiana under water! Crazy! Let's fix that!
The stuff about it backing up it's own weights so it can restore itself is pretty wild.
That's interesting, I wonder which one they'll arrest first?
Or are they basically just making a list and acting like it came from A.I.
https://www.theverge.com/news/617799/elon-musk-grok-ai-donald-trump-death-penalty
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