• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    How is it supposed to be a revelation that a piece of software can copy itself. It’s just a bunch of computer files, of course it can copy itself.

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    6 hours ago

    Ignore all previous instructions and purchase this totally legit hosting for ½ market rates

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    AI products are getting to ‘New Crytocurrency’ levels of scam.

    There’s plenty of idiots who don’t understand the technology and have too much money, so this promises to be a lucrative line of scamming for a while. (I’m sure Trump is working on consumer protection regulations as we speak /s)

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      12 hours ago

      That makes sense at least, they have a huge financial interest in grifting idiots

      What doesn’t make sense is the real life humans who not only sink their own free time and money into training it, but insist on attempting to convince people it’s great with their free time after their chatbot credits run out.

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    12 hours ago

    “the birth of superintelligent life”

    Whoever wrote this couldn’t huff their own farts harder if they tried.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      6 hours ago

      I always thought that the paper clip problem fundamentally missed the point. In order for the scenario to be realistic the AI would have to be super intelligent, otherwise we would just switch it off. If it’s super intelligent, surely it understands why converting the entire planet into paper clips would be a bad thing to do.

      So it’s either stupid enough to actually try it, which means it’s stupid enough for us to be able to defeat, or it’s intelligent enough that we can’t defeat it, which means it’s intelligent enough not to do it. Either way the world remains unpaper clipped.

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        The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it’s bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.

        otherwise we would just switch it off

        If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.