Novara interviewed Ian Hogarth very recently about AI etc.
Well, that was both interesting and somewhat terrifying!
There's so much money being invested, just 'Open AI' alone is valued at about $30 billion, that capitalist competition between various seriously big businesses has turbocharged development, and when people thought a certain stage of development would take, for example, another 2-3 years it is now taking a month or even just a week, the money is simply being spent on beating the competition, with little consideration to it being safe.
He talked about all sorts of things currently bubbling away in the background, that people's don't really know about nor have given thought to, that will burst out at some point, and cause outrage and all sorts of problem. An example is people using AL to produce porn using 'deep fakes' of real people, and this includes child porn, which will also be complex for the police to deal with, as in does the image depict real sexual abuse or is it AI generated. He thinks making 'deep fakes' will end-up being banned, but then there's the problem of enforcement, across the global.
Basically, people will find ways of misusing it that currently haven't even been thought of, thus making it impossible for legislators to keep up.
He also spoke of the investment that has turbocharged development of humanoid robotics, and combined with AI, will be able to increasingly do more and more jobs, and it's not unrealistic that they will be able to do 95% of jobs that humans currently do in as little as 20-30 years. Although, I guess once they have reached that point, it will take another period of time for them to be completely rolled out.
No wonder that so many experts in the industry are raising their concerns.
Despite not being a conspiracy nut, if I was likely to still be around when/if the worst happens, that video and the fact that no one, not even the developers, knows where this is going, my current concerns would raise to the 'holy shit' level, and I would be having nightmares of the robot armies coming after us!
Multiple fully Tesla-made bots now walking around & learning about the real world -
OK people, this isn’t funny anymore. It seems that the Boston Dynamics robots — which are off-putting enough when they’re being controlled the usual way (er, via algorithms, probably, or maybe a very sophisticated clicker) — can now be controlled by ChatGPT. Yes, that ChatGPT, the one known for doing middle schoolers’ homework for them and making stuff up.
But nobody is fooling Gary Marcus, professor emeritus in psychology and neural science at New York University, who asked hypothetically, “What could possibly go wrong? A lot.”
“ChatGPT still lacks reliable common sense,” Marcus told the Globe. “Put that in a robot and you could easily wind up with a robot doing dangerous things, or just not doing what you expect.”
It’s a concern that apparently played into “godfather of AI” Dr. Geoffrey Hinton’s recent decision to step down from his post at Google, and even tell the New York Times that he has regrets about his life’s work.
“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things,” Hinton told the Times, noting also that, according to the newspaper, “he fears a day when truly autonomous weapons — those killer robots — become reality.”
Are you concerned that artificial intelligence could spiral out of control? Or do its benefits outweigh its risks?
www.boston.com
I’m usually wrong though. 
