If you're worried about #LLM-based #AI, you're focusing on the wrong thing and may lack imagination.
This, and related developments (I can't view them as advancements, knowing how this all will end) are what's going to end the human race as we've known ourselves.
Much good can be derived from technologies like this, but we—being as we are—will ultimately go much to far.
I don't think we're prepared for our instant evolution (and, separately, eventual mechanization).
The #FX#tv#series, #ClassOf09 is doing a really good job so far, three episodes in, of showing the real threat of #LLM-based #AI tools and related systems.
By minimizing or removing human decision-making primarily or solely based on data input into and analyzed by synthetic systems, we will imprison ourselves for supposed efficiency and safety.
We will get neither.
Driving being suspicious (and ultimately criminal, because humans cause most accidents) shows a real danger of such tech-creep.
I'm all for advancing #technology, but when it's done purely for profit I assume, based on history, that such advancements will ultimately do much significant harm along with any good that may be achieved.
#LLM's and #AI have a long way to go before they're an existential threat to humanity on their own.
It's advances in the melding of technology and #biology that are as likely to doom us as save us, for now.
After finishing the last two episodes of #ClassOf09 (#FX, on #Hulu) I was processing my thoughts before posting here and this #Wired#article was highlighted for me in #AppleNews.
Abdication of our #human responsibility is the greatest danger of #AI, in all its forms, past, current, and future.
The technology should always be considered and used as #tool wielded by people with rigorous #oversight and limited power.
That won't happen, and we will absolutely live in a world where critical decisions directly and indirectly affecting all but the #elite will be #automated.
Catch #ClassOf09 if you can for a good preview, imo, of some of the very real and highly probable #societal problems that #LLM's, #ML, and #AI#algorithms will definitely cause or make exponentially worse, which #BigTech is actively claiming AI will improve or solve.
#Power never yields power and whatever power we grant to #technology will eventually and deliberately be used against us by that technology.
What downsides will there be to all of the positive effects of these radical improvements?
"Is it coercive to attach goods to the abilities of the body?"—which we do now so, yes—and to whom and how will people be indebted for their #augmentations?
#NovaWonders#CanWeMakeLife? May 23, 2018, presents the another piece of the #human-synthesized #evolution I think we're already deep into that, after #ClimateChange, is the next most likely way #humanity will irrevocably damage ourselves in ways we're in denial about and for which we're unprepared, as a #species.
#Synthetic#DNA, what could possibly go wrong? Science isn't really sure how it works, on a fundamental level.
"#DNAzymes" are different from #human DNA but, "...can act as molecular scissors with precise specificity to cut RNA or DNA, or they can function as glue...Say you have a mutated gene...causing disease, we could get this DNA into the cells and...get rid of all that kind of message that's causing the proteins that lead to the disease."
#AI may be the tool that kills is all, but it's humans that will wield it.
"...researchers...decided to test if its software could also create biochemical weapons. Within six hours, the AI had identified more than 40,000 compounds 'predicted to be more toxic...than publicly known chemical warfare agents'. The thought had never previously struck us...We were naive...A non-human autonomous creator of a deadly chemical weapon is entirely feasible."
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