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The predictions in this article are somewhat mute because existential problems within AI should manifest before AI becomes smart and capable of wiping us out. AI will augment and speed up all parts of society, good and bad. Imagine rapid advancements in these areas for instance: genetic engineering, wealth creation, uranium refinement, drones, bio weapons, election manipulation, general crime, murder for hire. You think our eighty year old representatives are going to get ahead of this? Think they could even regulate it?

I can download and run the latest uncensored Vicuna model and get started on all this right now. Give it a few months, years or a decade. Its unstoppable, no way to contain it or its acceleration.

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You think our eighty year old representatives are going to get ahead of this? Think they could even regulate it?

Maybe, because while you're so negative and ageist, I watched the congress hearing with Gary Marcus and they actually have the wisdom to know it's out of their depth and an agency with younger and smarter people who know about this stuff needs to be setup.

There is no need for such negativity towards older people.

I'm actually pretty old myself. I like old people. But I don't think they'll all be able to competently manage the needed lifting to consider this properly. There aren't even experts that can give us a path.

Fair points you made though. It was a weak and lazy angle I made.

A better reason why they won't want to regulate us out of this is that they are corporately captured and beholden to the funding needs to keep them elected.

I don't think it can be regulated at any rate. All you need is the weights and a few gpus. Even better if you can afford some cloud time. In time there'll be distributed, encrypted crowd source options to build these that also can't be regulated.

No problems, I was just quite impressed by congress and how humble they were about the issue. It wasn't like they tried to pretend they knew best.

I feel the chaos you're talking about will be the regulation. It's natures way of regulating things.

It might mean the death of millions first, it might mean we don't like or want computers in our lives anymore, but that's how it might have to go down, as insane as it sounds.

Well that's hopeful to hear(about the competent representatives). I'm very excited at the other side of AI boosting all the good endeavors and technology that takes us up to the next level.

I am old. The problem is people shouldn't be making policy decisions that they don't have long enough to live in order to see the ramifications of those decisions play out. Skin in the game vs one foot in the grave.

This would be completely straightforward in a rational society. Not to mention, it is pretty weird for an 80 year old to still be wanting to hold on to power.

The ageism knock is total bullshit but I am sure you know that.

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