(S+) AI Expert Stuart Russell: 'What Hitler Did, AI Could Do Faster, Better and More Efficiently'
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Renowned AI expert Stuart Russell has become one of the technology's most urgent critics. He argues the dangers of AI have been vastly underestimated. In an interview, he tells DER SPIEGEL why.
  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 days ago

    It says something about our current world that, having read the headline and not knowing who this guy is, I expected him to a booster of both AI and Nazism. It’s a relief to find he means this as a criticism.

  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    11·
    9 days ago

    Ok, i appreciate what he wants to say, but he has fully bought into the delusion that an LLM gets somewhat close to an AGI, including the “LLMs could wipe out humanity” crap that Musk/Altman/Amodei are pushing to make their models seem more capable than they will ever be. The only way an LLM can be a danger to humanity is when it gets integrated into automated killchains including a nuclear arsenal, and i hope noone is stupid enough to hook up the nuclear football to a statistical model that is guaranteed to have malfunctions.

    • Joe@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      8 days ago

      It’s not just about current LLMs, though. LLMs are being made to work 24/7 on the next generation of models (and not just LLMs), which may be quite novel or just more effective. The next generation might be the one to worry about… Or the generation after that.

      LLMs can be used like an army of monkeys with typewriters, with evals guaranteeing progress. It’s inefficient, but effective.

      Assuming it is possible to make progress (and I think it is), the logical conclusion is that progress will be made, and AGI and ASI will come

      it gets integrated into automated killchains including a nuclear arsenal, and i hope noone is stupid enough to

      Have you ever met a human? 🤣

  • devfuuu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 days ago

    The current landscape is the wet dream of nazis. It’s gonna be so efficient to dissapear people. They even put their own information online. Silly ones.

  • tinsukE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    What a choice of words… 🤦 Deliberate? “Better”? How about “worse” instead?

  • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    Stuart Russell: ‘What Hitler Did, AI Could Do Faster, Better and More Efficiently’

    Depending on how much we integrate it into all our shit I fear it could also do it imperceptibly.