We've all been hearing a lot about GPT-4 lately, with bizarre but intriguing poetry, buggy but improving code, and sort of a heavy-hearted "oh boy, here it comes" air. Lately though various thinkers on the topic have taken a more pragmatic, hands-on approach to answering questions around the entire prospect of a true general AI that could result in a true uh-oh-here-it-is-and-40-years-early technological singularity. Here are some examples:
- Pause development for six months and think this through.
- Shut this shit down right damn now. Enforce with airstrikes as needed.
- A 3.5 hour interview with the author of the above item. (I'm only an hour in.)
- This genie's not going back in the bottle. Buy. All. The. Guns.
They're not kidding. I'll throw in one of my own from a couple of years ago: Who or what do you think has been generating all these scissor statements these last few years? Now refer to any of the above four items for possible solutions.
Hm. Seems a little early. I was reasonably sure we'd have fusion power first, and as such any concerns were so far in the future as to be academic. What to do? Just like with hurricane season, watch and wait, I suppose.
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