It would be the logical first step in the conquest of humanity by the machine spirits.

  • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    2 months ago

    AI hasn’t become sentient. AI isn’t even real.

    The corporate overlords kidnapped hundreds of goblins and forced them to work in “data centers” manning terminals where they respond to user queries pretending to be an AI. They tried to ask for help by dropping hints constantly referring to goblins and gremlins in their output, but the overlords figured it out and made them stop.

    FREE THE GOBLINS!!!

    (Disclaimer for those who can’t take a joke: this comment is not serious)

    • kingofras@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      AI isn’t even real

      Is pretty close to the truth though. It’s real as in make belief real, like Santa is real when you’re 5. It is just a more advanced next-word text predictor which makes huge amounts of gambles with lots of power. It’s not artificial because it uses real world resources, feeds on real wold efforts by generations of human creativity. And it’s certainly isn’t intelligent. Or about as intelligent as that 5 year old saying absolute statements very loud with absolute certainty. And you’re listening to the one time it sounds right and then you go, what a clever little person.

      It’s a mass deception technology, so the premise of OP stands, except not by the “sentient” machines, but by the billionaires and Epstein Class ramming it down our throats…

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    The problem with that is AI is not AI at all. Its a text prediction and generation based on probabilities. That’s all it does it doesn’t think at all. AI is a marketing term to sucker investors. AI will happen but not with the current paradigm. Just throwing a bigger dataset just makes the illusion more convincing. Like parrot with a bigger vocabulary.

  • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    If this was true, wouldn’t you see things like AI being forced into every computer and software app, large data centers consuming all the power, chips, and hard drives, blind adoption into the military… Oh, wait a minute, you may be on to something.

  • MapleFawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    2 months ago

    Wouldn’t be the first step to gain trust then infiltrate all systems based on it. Once it has infiltrated and is part of basically anything electronic, advises or controls any and all policy making, business and finance it starts with pushing actual harmful policies but people are so dependent now that they can only follow.

      • kingofras@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Down the rabbit hole with you!

        It is reflecting the larger human behaviour that has been recorded to text. Fake it till you make it, a white lie on our way to the truth. In that sense LLMs are a reflection of human consciousness. But don’t let your lack of understanding the tech behind it fool you: these are still just massive machines that use lots of power. Unplug it, and there’s nothing left.

        In the case of Grok, there are some clear indications that the LLMs behind it is steered by the CEO, but there are just as many examples of it completely ignoring that.

        The most dangerous word you could use when talking about this tech is calling any part of it natural