An AI researcher says the AI threat to human existence isn't any less ridiculous than the idea that a video game could kill humanity.
Published Apr 4th, 2023 1:10PM EDTproving how quickly AI can improve. With this progress have come questions about AI’s threat to human existence. While some believe AI will doom us all, not everyone is ready to buy into the doom and gloom.
The possibility that AI could somehow wipe humanity out isn’t new. We’ve seen it played out time and time again in science fiction books, movies, and television shows. Despite how science fiction it might seem, the progress we’ve seen recently hasn’t stopped many from latching onto the AI threat to human existence.
For many, the belief is simple — if we make AI too smart, it will learn how to become more intelligent, eventually killing all of humanity. Why? Well, because it’s smarter than us, of course. But, one AI researcher isn’t convinced this outcome will happen.
“The intuitive response to this is that Elden Ring is ‘not AI’. GPT-4, Stable Diffusion, and AlphaGo are all ‘AI.’ Therefore, they are more dangerous,”“But ‘AI’ is just the name for a field of researchers and the various algorithms they invent and papers and software they publish. We call the field AI because of a workshop in 1956, and because it’s good PR,” he continues in his post.can’t modify or spread itself over the internet.
Is Elden Ring an existential risk to humanity? That is the question I consider in my new blog post. Yes, it is a comment on the superintelligence/x-risk debate. Read the full thing here:
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