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Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious to c/technology
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  • Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
  • Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
  • Some large tech companies didn't want to compete with open source, he added.
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...sure. But the chances your grandmother will suddenly sprout wheels are close to zero. The possibility of us all getting buttfucked by some AI with a god complex (other scenarios are available) is very real.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever talked to generative AI? They're nothing but glorified chatbots with access to a huge dataset to pull from. They don't think, they're not even intelligent, let alone sentient. They don't even learn on their own without help or guidance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mostly agree, but just five years ago, we had nothing as sophistacted as these LLMs. They really are useful in many areas of work. I use them constantly.

Just try and imagine what a few more years of work on these systems could bring.