And monkeys could fly out of my ass. Before we start hand wringing about AI someone would probably need to actually invent one. We're probably closer to actual room temperature fusion at this point than we are an actual general purpose AI.

Instead of wasting time worrying about a thing that doesn't even exist and probably won't in any of our lifetimes, we should probably do something about the things actually killing us like global warming and unchecked corporate greed.

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly. There was an article floating around just a couple of days ago that from what I recall was saying that billionaires were funding these AI-scare studies in top universities, I presume to distract the public from the very real and near scare of climate disaster, economic inequality, etc. Here, unfortunately paywalled: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/05/ai-apocalypse-college-students/

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is this concept called "crityhype". It's a type of marketing mascarading as criticism. "Careful, AI might become too powerful" is exactly that

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of the folks worried about AI x-risk are also worried about climate, and pandemics, and lots of other things too. It's not like there's only one threat.

[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's all about risks, if you worry about being runover ok it's reasonable, but if you worry about shark attacks when you live in the forest it is ludicrous and a waste of time.

[–] mrnotoriousman@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I absolutely hate this craze. Most of the questions I get about AI are just facepalming because everyone is feeding off each other with these absurd things that could hypothetically happen. Clearly because actually explaining it doesn't generate clicks and controversy

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Clearly because actually explaining it doesn't generate clicks and controversy

Solving real problems is hard because if it wasn't they would be solved already, but making up fake problems is really easy.

[–] Mookulator@wirebase.org 4 points 1 year ago

Amen. The “AI” everyone is freaking out about is good at a narrow range of things, but either dumb as shit or completely incapable otherwise

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

like global warming and unchecked corporate greed.

And the unnecessary cruelty @orclev@lemmy.world puts poor monkeys through.

Come on man let the poor things out. No matter what they did to you. They don't deserve that.