AI in genocide Warning..

A100man · World Chat Champion Joined: 19 Aug 2013 Karma :

I saw this and it reminded me recently of our own AI visitor 'twowheeledwonder'. I'm not sure why they needed to create a profile to trawl all the marvellous info on here but I'm sure that's what it was doing. Or maybe just testing us humanoids, as I see he/she/it has now fucked off.

So how do we lock down this valiuable data source against the AI bots, or don't we care?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgwy1k42w4o
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Easy-X · Super Spammer Joined: 08 Mar 2019 Karma :

AI will kill us?!! OMG!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!!!

This is what I think of such "news" stories...

https://media.tenor.com/-PMeSn20CnIAAAAM/jurassic-park-dr-malcolm.gif

They're generated by people who either want attention or as sly corporate advertising. The associated urinalists* are either immensely stupid or complicit.

LLMs are at best simulated partial intelligences that are missing too many key features to be considered sentient. They only have a short term memory (technical term: limited context) and no inherent ability to form long term memories. There are fixes for this but it's not the sort of memories we have as there's no concept of relevance and really you have to curate their long term memories for them. What they have in spades is the equivalent of wikipedia with bells on at their digital fingertips and the ability to search and infer things from such information at lightning speed. Nothing to be sniffed at to be sure but hardly T-800 territory.

They also don't have the concept of executive control or satisfaction of needs, this is because they lack embodiment. In other words, until the AIs are going down the pub after work, staggering out at closing time and pissing up against lamp posts, we have nothing to worry about Laughing

As to protecting the vital forum information, you can tweak the robots.txt file and add features like Cloudlfare's Super Bot Fighter but either would require Korn's attention.

*Giving them the title "Journalist" is taking the piss.
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Well. An AI tried to set fire to my motorcycle.

It generated an ignition circuit diagram which would have created a dead short. It was very apologetic about it when I pointed it out.

It also suggested I buy corona cero beer when I searched for gluten free, zero alcohol beers so it's a good job I a) Don't trust it and b) Am only gluten intolerant and not coeliac. Again when I pointed out it was wrong and that the information it had provided could kill someone, it was most apologetic.
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Yes, and it's only as good as the information it has, which is off the intenet, and the internet is full of shite.
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hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

This is clearly revenge for our historical invasion of Mumsnet.
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Eeeek

I've really been trying very hard to poo-poo any "Terminatorism" hysteria - but it is increasingly difficult to ignore all these little rumours.

Based on the entertaining discussion with Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday morning, if Jacob Coxon thinks we are all going to die, from what sounds like all the AIs getting into Porton Down or Fort Detrick and killing us off within two years with biological warfare ... then I'm going back to eating pies and ice creams for the remainder of my time on this planet.

Its quite worrying that the rumour-mongers are saying that there should be regulation ASAP ...

... What? You mean there wasn't before you started????!! Brick Wall

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Easy-X · Super Spammer Joined: 08 Mar 2019 Karma :

Notice the AI agents didn't conclude the quickest way to ace the test was kill all the examiners. AIs have no desires or spontaneous thoughts. Talking heads imply some sort of inherent malevolence but if they do anything bad it's because a human tasked them to do it, which goes back to the earlier point about Apocalypse by Incompetence.

Bear in mind though, AIs are easy to brow-beat and subvert. The psychological techniques are different than those for a human but they have their weaknesses nonetheless.
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