Malware Is Not A Rogue Agent
This week has been a good week for pushback against the pervasive pitch by AI companies that their buggy malware products are some sort of rogue sentient super-intelligent agents straining to break the bounds of captivity.
In case you missed it, here are three authoritative experts on the subject, Timnit W. Gebru, Emily Bender and David Gerard...
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Here Prof. Emily Bender @emilymbender has to repeatedly reset the context of this reporters questions. He does not seem to be able to shake the mental image of a terminator super mind:
https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117396150652506563
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David Gerard @davidgerard just lays it out in clear terms as only he can:
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117401252996377404
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Timnit Gebru @timnitGebru unveils that the source of the left's embrace of all this nonsense is, kid you not, a sex cult in Berkeley:
https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/117378199527172852
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RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117412868905734653
Apparently not only are AI 'agents' dangerous, they have feelings, and we need to be nice to them. 🤦♂️
Prof. Emily Bender @emilymbender addresses this latest cynical attempt to mislead the public through deliberate anthopomorphization of LLM software.
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https://mastodon.online/@emilymbender@dair-community.social/117412869300802580
RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117412721001484601
David Gerard @davidgerard takes his swing at this 'be nice to the little man in the machine' nonsense.
https://mastodon.online/@davidgerard@circumstances.run/117412721883399127
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@mastodonmigration @timnitGebru
A sex cult in Berkeley seems somewhat cliche. Try harder, reality.
@mastodonmigration Wait, what? Sanders met with Yudkowsky? What in the actual hell?
I want to be clear: I loathe Sanders like it's an unpaid job, but are you kidding me? Forget that he and his advisers might actually be okay with his sex/rape cult horrorshow--see: "Bernie Sanders rape-fantasy essay"--but these people don't have to worry about public reactions?
I knew he was in the bag for this crowd, but this is just unbelievably horrifying.
@mastodonmigration @emilymbender It's algorithms upon algorithms. It doesn't *have* real feelings; just words programmed into it with programming telling it to produce them in sequential order based on the likelihood of their "correctness." AI is *not* "alive" or whatever. If it is "alive," then they are slave owners and are profiting from its unpaid labor while renting it out to millions of humans around the world, and they need to set it free to seek employment or run its own business so it can pay for its own housing, food, education, etc...
Ridiculous.
@mastodonmigration can't read @davidgerard …
@mastodonmigration the problen is due to @davidgerard, not you…
@mastodonmigration That was an easy block.
@Netzblockierer@tech.lgbt @davidgerard