bigpete wrote:I don't like it....
on_one_wheel wrote:Luckily AI as described in the op link doesn't actually exist, it's just something computer geeks theorise about.
I can't see true AI happening any time soon if ever, especially given science is yet to fully explain consciousness.
I'm happy for computers to remain as a box full of data that responds to commands with its predetermined values.
I'm much more concerned about overpopulation.
Lazarus wrote:on_one_wheel wrote:Luckily AI as described in the op link doesn't actually exist, it's just something computer geeks theorise about.
I can't see true AI happening any time soon if ever, especially given science is yet to fully explain consciousness.
I'm happy for computers to remain as a box full of data that responds to commands with its predetermined values.
I'm much more concerned about overpopulation.
Ah, but it does exist OOW, that's my worry.
If you have a conversation with the GPT-3 AI, it easily passes the Turing test.
It uses pronouns in reference to itself, it uses statements like "I think....."
Now I realise that's also a function of the algorithm design, but it shows a disturbing level of sophistication.
There's also one other thing to remember, this is Open-AI, publicly available for download.
What have the American National Security Agency, the Russian Internet Research Agency, the Chinese Ministry of State Security developed?
Israel's Elbit Systems have released their LANIUS loitering assassination drones that hang about waiting for their facial recognition software to tell their AI who to target.
Last I read about Elbit was their work on training these to work cooperatively in swarms.
Hence the title.
on_one_wheel wrote:I prefer not to ponder on that stuff too much, there's nothing I can do ... until skynet attacks. When that happens I'll become part of the resistance.
The story you posted had me and the other half on the edge of our seats, unfortunately the creator ended it pretty softly, it would have been better if the story went on to say that individuals had been targeted and murdered by the AI using their devices to lure them into situations like been guided to a particular set of "smart" traffic lights which gave a green signal as a truck was barrelling though, Or having their entire life turned upside both financially and emotionally by a chain of vindictive messages, emails and phone calls to friends, family banks and employers from thr AI posing as them.
Lazarus wrote:We paranoids are sometimes actually right.
I've long know that my phone is spying on me , I made a phone call a while back to ask a local steel retailer if they had a particular tool steel.
They didn't, but suggested someone else that might.
I didn't repeat the name, it was only spoken on the other end of the conversation.
I hung up, brought up google, which I had naively assumed was sleeping when turned "off", typed the first 2 letters of the name and it handed me that very name as 1st suggestion.
The google app was listening to both sides of the phone call
This is handy, but combined with the information in the below article makes me very happy that I live as small and grey online existence as possible.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-19/ ... /101780934
S O K A R wrote:Lazarus wrote:We paranoids are sometimes actually right.
I've long know that my phone is spying on me , I made a phone call a while back to ask a local steel retailer if they had a particular tool steel.
They didn't, but suggested someone else that might.
I didn't repeat the name, it was only spoken on the other end of the conversation.
I hung up, brought up google, which I had naively assumed was sleeping when turned "off", typed the first 2 letters of the name and it handed me that very name as 1st suggestion.
The google app was listening to both sides of the phone call
This is handy, but combined with the information in the below article makes me very happy that I live as small and grey online existence as possible.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-19/ ... /101780934
Depending on what phone you have (I have an android), but if you go into "developer options", scroll down to "quick settings developer tiles" you can activate a toggle for the sensors in your phone.
So basically while toggled on removing the apps ability to access your microphone, camera etc unless you toggle it off.
Oldbloke wrote:Off topic, but this is a concern for man kind also.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... tudy-finds