Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
―Jodi Picoult
“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
— James N. Mattis
Elon Musk reveals the disturbing example he says proves AI has already been programmed to lie
"You don't force AI to believe things that are false. When Google Gemini was asked to make an image of the founding fathers, it was a group of diverse women. That is factually untrue, and the AI knows it's factually untrue, but it's also being told everything has to be diverse women"
"At one point, if you asked ChatGPT and Gemini which is worse, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war where everyone dies, it would say misgendering Caitlyn Jenner"
"Even Caitlyn Jenner disagrees with that"
"Imagine as AI gets more and more powerful. If it says the most important thing is no misgendering, it will say, in order to ensure no one gets misgendered, if you eliminate all humans, then no one can get misgendered because there's no humans to do the misgendering"
"Or if it says everyone must be diverse, it means there can be no straight white men. Then you and I would get executed by the AI"
"The problem is that it can drive AI crazy. You're telling AI to believe a lie, and that can have disastrous consequences"
"I don't think people quite appreciate the level of danger we're in from the woke mind virus being effectively programmed into AI"
"It matters how you build the AI and what kind of values you install. The most important thing is that it be maximally truth-seeking"