I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI

nradov•1 day ago

OK, I've listened to the warnings and they still sound like the usual nonsense by out-of-touch techies who spend too much time lost in apocalyptic sci-fi fantasies. In the real world it's still hard to move around physical atoms or keep machinery working reliably. AI won't change that.

jocoda•1 day ago

I can't help wondering if the major labs think that tackling the alignment problem and implementing the 'kill switch' that is currently being proposed is going to be their moat.

harrouet•1 day ago

Nobody talks about telecom operators. But they will be the ones disconnecting the malicious bots when they see one.

ferrouswheel•1 day ago

The problem is not AI, the problem is humans mis-using AI

CyLith•1 day ago

Well, if you really believe that, then we truly are screwed. Trusting humans to not mis-use something is wishful thinking.

brainwad•1 day ago

The hugging face hack shows otherwise, no? Unless you think humans are at fault even for secretive, autonomous, non-prompted behaviours of their AIs, in which case it's just semantics.

nradov•1 day ago

Toys like HuggingFace get hacked all the time. So what. In the long run AI automated security scans and penetration testing will be a tremendous aid in detecting and repairing vulnerabilities in systems that actually matter.

brainwad•1 day ago

The problem is not per se that it was Hugging Face. It's the wild overstepping of reasonable bounds by itself without any human consultation.

verdverm•about 21 hours ago

What ever happened to that other Googler that claimed Gemini was conscious?

My read is these folks are too high on their own stash

At some point they must recognize we are in the "boy who cried wolf" tale, right? You cannot go on for years spreading FUD about how AI is so dangerous and have none of it materialize. The growth is looking a lot more tame than their "high on their own stash" anxiety is letting is on to believe

incognito124•about 21 hours ago

Blake Lemoine, and it wasn't Gemini it was an earlier system called LaMDA

verdverm•about 21 hours ago

I have a hard time getting upset about AI hallucinations when I do it too :]

An earlier version of ChatGPT (2 or 3 iinh) was too dangerous to release, yet here we are several version later, and with open weights far more capable

why should we believe the fears they tell us today when the ones they told us about in prior years never happened?

yttyy•about 20 hours ago

What about all the fanfare re. Cyber security / hacks?

The businesses that matter are all standing fine.

It’s too cringey.

blitzar•about 23 hours ago

Weird flex but ok

I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI

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