How to Survive AI
When AI people talk about labour, they tend to frame jobs as sets of tasks, rather than sets of responsibilities.
Jack Stilgoex.comThe dumbest person you know is currently being told “You're absolutely right!” by ChatGPT
ksa 🏴☠️, IQ 277x.comThe ongoing functionality of Wikipedia relies on an army of software agents – bots – to enforce and maintain correct formatting, build connections between articles, and moderate conflicts and incidences of vandalism. At the last survey, bots counted for seventeen of the top twenty most prolific editors and collectively make about 16 per cent of all
... See moreJames Bridle • New Dark Age
if these AI systems ever become self-aware and power-hungry, like people such as Geoffrey Hinton believe to be a possible scenario, they’ll know exactly what to do when they risk being shut off. The blueprint is readily available. It turns out all you need to do is to social engineer large swaths of the population into parasocial relationships and... See more
All six said that Lavender had played a central role in the war, processing masses of data to rapidly identify potential “junior” operatives to target. Four of the sources said that, at one stage early in the war, Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men who had been linked by the AI system to Hamas or PIJ.
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Harry Davies • ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water.... See more
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water.... See more