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What's more likely in the techno-fascist idiocracy of the 21st Century?

We somehow manage to turn statistical models into super-intelligence... or the incompetent, criminally-corrupt, sociopathic leadership at the top of capitalism train an AI to defend the rich from the working class — by training it to be the most efficient killing machine possible — integrate it into fully autonomous killing machines, and it (accurately) determines the most efficient way to kill 99% of humanity is to start a nuclear war?

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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

I'm not claiming there's no chance of a true AI ever being created, but even a cursory understanding of how llms work is enough to know it won't ever lead to anything more than the text-generator it is. It might be a part of the process leading to the former, but it's simply not enough on it's own. Treating it otherwise just plays into the hands of the techbros trying to upsell the lie.