It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.

I’m not an AI techie and I’m not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I’m having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I’ve heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can’t really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The only remote risk of extermination is if a company with absolute impunity and endless resources told an LLM to hack the nuclear weapons

    Absolutely a huge risk.

    and if knowledge of how to do that was already published online and processed as training data.

    extremely naive to not understand existing capabilities of 100s of probings and planning based on probings, and multiple strategies, in a swarm working towards a goal.

    Still to your first point, the organizations with the budget and impunity, seeking the most powerful tools, are then the ones who will use them for evil, at expense of others, power maximization.