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 sloonark   ( @sloonark@lemm.ee )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’

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Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’

www.theguardian.com

 sloonark   ( @sloonark@lemm.ee )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago
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Artificial intelligence is already advancing at a worrying pace. What if we don’t slam on the brakes? Experts explain what keeps them up at night
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    AI doomerism to create more hype around AI. How AI could really destroy the world: corporation’s replace engineers with not properly working AI. Something critical break because the AI doesn’t work properly and no one can repair it

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      That is by far the most likely scenario. Hell it’s already happening with the AI we do have. Teslas driving into walls, facial recognition mistaking an innocent person for a criminal (mentioned in the article).

      Doomsday science fiction is fun to toy with but it usually involves a lot of hand waving.

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        To be fair, people (on average) are a LOT worse at driving than a computer. I’d bet the percentage of humans driving into walls is much higher than self driving vehicles.

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      Full speed into Idiocracy.

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      What makes you say it’s hype? It seems plausible and at least at a glance it’s bad for businesses who work with AI.

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