I would love to berativeai, it’s crazy
When Artificial Intelligence Fails and Why I Want to Give up on AI-Aligned Robotics, And When Does It Give Up?
AI has a lot of problems. It helps itself to the work of others, regurgitating what it absorbs in a game of multidimensional Mad Libs and omitting all attribution, resulting in widespread outrage and litigation. When it draws pictures, it makes the CEOs white, puts people in awkward ethnic outfits, and has a tendency to imagine women as elfish, with light-colored eyes. Its architects sometimes seem to be part of a death cult that semi-worships a Cthulu-like future AI god, and they focus great energies on supplicating to this immense imaginary demon (thrilling! terrifying!) instead of integrating with the culture at hand (boring, and you get yelled at). The idea of artificial general intelligence being around the corner despite 75% of failed precedent seems to be a good one for the more thoughtful Artificial Intelligence geniuses.
So I should reject this whole crop of image-generating, chatting, large-language-model-based code-writing infinite typing monkeys. I can not. I love them so much. I’m drawn back to them over and over, to learn and interact with them. I have them make me lists, draw me pictures, summarize things, read for me. We have built them into the code where I work. I’m inside the bag. Not my first hypocrisy rodeo.
Whenever there is a big tech thing that has the entire brain melting, I keep repeating to myself, “It’s just software.” Word processing was supposed to make it so easy to write a novel that there was no need for it, whilePhotoshop looked like it would help erase history, and now artificial intelligence is going to ruin society. And not even that much software: Lots of AI models could fit on a thumb drive with enough room left over for the entire run of Game of Thrones (or Microsoft Office). They’re interdimensional ZIP files, glitchy JPEGs, but for all of human knowledge. And yet they serve such large portions! (Not always. Sometimes I ask the AI to make a list and it gives up. I type that you can do it. The list can be longer when you make it. And it does! It was a terrible interface.
Source: Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It
What I’ve Learned from Living with Shame: Why Some Bad People Can’t Get Their Opinions Right? How Popular Is My Mouth?
I have a part in my life of shame, it has been installed at a young age and is updated with shame service packs frequently. A theory about shame being born when a child expects a laugh from their parents is what I read. That’s an oversimplification, but given all the jokes I’ve told that have landed flat, it sure rings true. Social media could be understood, in this vein, as a vast shame-creating machine. When people don’t like or like our funny one-liners and cool pictures, we feel bad. A healthy person says, well, didn’t land. Felt weird. Time to move on.”
It can sometimes seem like miracles when you meet people who are so well dressed. They have a great strength, the ability to be wrong, be loathed and still keep going. Our tech industry CEOs, as well as our pop stars, former presidents and political grifters are some of the people we obsession over. We know them by their first names and nicknames, not because they are our friends but because the weight of their personalities and influence has allowed them to claim their own domain names in the collective cognitive register.
Are these shameless people evil, or wrong, or bad? Sure. Whatever you want. They are just big by their own design. They contain a lot of things, and we debate them. They have billions, an electoral college victory, but do they deserve to be famous? They don’t care that we want them to leave. Not one bit. They will stay forever. They’ll be dead before they feel remorse.
AI and the Pause AI Movement: A Status Report on the London Protests on Monday, February 16 & Wednesday, at Pause AI Headquarters
On a side street outside the headquarters of the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology in the center of London on Monday, 20 or so protesters are getting their chants in order.
The question of how Pause artificial intelligence should achieve its aims is also being asked. On the group’s Discord, some members discussed the idea of staging sit-ins at the headquarters of AI developers. OpenAI has become a point of protest for the AI movement. In February, Pause AI protests gathered in front of OpenAI’s San Francisco offices, after the company changed its usage policies to remove a ban on military and warfare applications for its products.
“The Summit didn’t actually lead to meaningful regulations,” says Joep Meindertsma, the founder of PauseAI. The attendees at the conference agreed to the bletchley declaration but that doesn’t mean much to me. “It’s only a small first step, and what we need are binding international treaties.”
The Montreal Protocol, a global agreement signed in 1987 that saw the phase out of chlorofluorocarbons and other chemicals known to deplete the ozone layer, has been used to ban technology before. “We’ve got treaties that ban blinding laser weapons. I think there is a way in which we can pause.
