The AI dooooooom thread

[DGuller]

What scares me most about AI is not the possibility of it becoming more intelligent than human, but even what it can do without reaching that level.  I don't see people appreciating the fact that AI can access and process way more information than a human can. 

The product of intellectual work is connecting the dots; it's a combination of having the dots, and finding the right connections between them.  An AI which is not as intelligent as a human can nevertheless connect way more dots, simply because it starts with more of them.  A human spy can't listen to 100 million wiretaps at the same time and synthesize them, but an AI might be able to.  Even a pretty dumb one can identify people unhappy with the regime, so that the regime can administer corrective measures.

[Valmy]

Yes. And there doesn't seem any way to stop powerful institutions from having this power. Either all powerful governments or all powerful techlords. Either way seems equally bad.

[Jacob]

AI continues providing things we really need: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/black-mirror-becomes-reality-new-app-lets-users-talk-to-ai-avatars-of-deceased-loved-ones-3283056/

[Valmy]

Holy shit. No I am not talking to an AI version of my Dad.

[Josquius]

Which would hallucinate more?
The AI boomer or the real one?