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AI should only run as fast as we can catch up

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196 points yuedongze | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 17:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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cons0le ◴[08 Dec 25 18:20 UTC] No.46195737[source]▶
I directly asked gemini how to get world peace. It said the world should prioritize addressing climate change, inequality, and discrimination. Yeah - we're not gonna do any of that shit. So I don't know what the point of "superintelligent" AI is if we aren't going to even listen to it for the basic big picture stuff. Any sort of "utopia" that people imagine AI bringing is doomed to fail because we already can't cooperate without AI
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1. pessimizer ◴[08 Dec 25 23:58 UTC] No.46199450[source]▶
> Any sort of "utopia" that people imagine AI bringing is doomed to fail because we already can't cooperate without AI

It's just fanfiction. They're just making up stories in their heads based on blending sci-fi they've read or watched in the past. There's no theory of power, there's no understanding of history or even the present, it's just a bad Star Trek episode.

"Intelligence" itself isn't even a precise concept. The idea that a "superintelligent" AI is intrinsically going to be obsessed with juvenile power fantasies is just silly. An AI doesn't want to enslave the world, run dictatorial experiments born of childhood frustrations and get all the girls. It doesn't want anything. It's purposeless. Its intelligence won't even be recognized as intelligence if its suggestions aren't pleasing to the powerful. They'll keep tweaking it to keep it precisely as dumb as they themselves are.