I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords

Humans are the best, beep beep boop...

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

@hilbertspaess You're a hyperbolic alarmist clutching your pearls over imaginary fantastical scenarios.

You're also an irresponsible person who is trying to slow down the systems that are already helping to create, and will continue to help make major breakthroughs that WILL save lives.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

@ljupc0 ...as if millions of devops suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly relieved...

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

They did the thing.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

In each and every one of these cases, the entire incident is more or less fake. The users ask the model to do something dangerous, they give it access so that it can do the dangerous thing, and then it does it. Why is this shocking?

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

https://t.co/UTPceJne7w

So OpenAI knew about the vulnerability but proceed with the test and thought the sandbox was secure? ...

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

@DavidSKrueger What an alarmist decel moronic take.

People should be preparing for a future where they use AI daily and it is ubiquitous, NOT clutching pearls and talking about vague nonsensical attempts to "stop AI."

Anyone stupid enough to listen to this is doing themselves a disservice.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

💯 🎯

Yet, unsurprisingly, the useful idiots and anti-US bots will keep calling for regulation, limitations, and deceleration.

Acceleration is the only viable path to a better future.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

And yet, here he is, on social media.

We don't get absolute power to decide what technologies to adopt or reject because we don't live in a vacuum. Maybe you can get your country to commit suicide locally, rejecting a technology the rest of the world adopts. What you can’t get is the entire world to go along with you.

In the 1630s, the Tokugawa Shogunate decided it didn't like modern technology, and so it closed Japan to external influences. A couple hundred years later, they discovered that while they were asleep, the rest of the world was not. Commodore Perry sailed his gunships into Tokyo's harbor and the Japanese realized they had no response because they lacked the technology to eject him. Japan managed to recover fast enough that it was not destroyed and got to preserve its language and culture, but that was no sure thing, and we may not be so lucky.

You can say “screw AI” if you like, but then you're ceding control of the world to the people who don’t reject it. That may mean that the people who dictate the future of the world’s values and culture don’t share your opinions or beliefs. I happen to like Western values; freedom, respect for the individual, the rule of law, and the like are important to me. It would be a shame to see all those things die because the future is controlled by people who don’t care about them.

You can keep “AI” away from you for a little while, in crude stupid ways like insane regulation or banning data centers (which will also destroy your ability to use the internet), but other countries that build electric power plants and data centers and factories, and which don’t pass laws banning self driving cars or delivery drones, will then own the future, and you may very well not like what they do with it. After all, the capacity to build those drones and self driving cars also implies the ability to build autonomous military units.

Pretty soon, the countries that don’t cut their own throats will be vastly wealthier and have automated armies, and you’ll still be where you were. And then they’ll conquer you and you’ll be just where you were anyway, only worse off.

The Europeans are only now grappling with the fact that their anti-growth policies mean that (per capita) Britain is worse off than Mississippi. It turns out — shock of shocks — that you can’t regulate yourself into wealth and influence, you have to actually build things. This has real world effects; the Europeans talk a good game about their military defense in the wake of events in places like Ukraine, but in practice they have no money with which to pay for it.

The way to deal with new technologies is to grapple with them, to get experience with them, to try them out and understand them. You can bury your head in the sand instead if you like of course, but it never works out. You just end up with the world in the hands of people who don’t care what you think and don’t care about your values.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

@perrymetzger @ChrisMurphyCT >“the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial for cyber defense.”

"Guys! Guys! You need our model to defend against attacks!"

Come on, it's pathetically transparent to anyone who has more than a double-digit IQ.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

@perrymetzger is absolutely correct.

Sadly, decels don't actually want to understand how the law has actually dealt with this type of issue.

The irony is that if decels got what they wanted then large corporate entities would absolutely fence off concepts and styles and zelously restrict artistic endeavors of all types to the maximum extent.

The alternative, which the slightly more aware decel then usually shifts to is: "well then we should change the law to treat AI differently" which is purely a value judgment based on their own personal desire to block progress and change.

It is so laughably predictable.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

They don’t have it right now. Copyright law is extremely narrow: you only get a limited right to prevent others from duplicating the specific text or image you’ve created, and even then only for a limited time. The ideas contained within are not subject copyright at all, maybe be used by anyone quite freely, and you are free to discuss the contents of a book, to comment on it, to learn from it, to teach others what the book says, etc., all you want. You may even sell someone your specific instantiation of the book or image, or lend it to people. You are just not allowed to copy the very specific contents, and even then only for a limited period of time.

The belief being expressed by the opponents here is one that, if taken seriously, would claim that any student who learns calculus from a textbook must thereafter pay a royalty forever anytime they use calculus.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

@perrymetzger @treylorswift This is right about the time when you'll get a visceral emotional reaction from most anti-AI types who will shift to the "well AI isn't a human" which is a non-sequiter in this type of discussion.

They dont want to understand the legal principles and are arguing in bad faith.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

SETI at Home crawled so that Tesla/Grok could run.

Use every part of the digital buffalo.

Don't waste compute.

Accelerate!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I am increasingly confident that this idea could work

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

A wild @beffjezos appears!

Also, saw this on Reddit, of all places! Nature is healing?

Welcome to the future.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

The foundations have been laid.

Now it's time to scale.

Excited for the Thermodynamic Intelligence takeoff ahead.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

I know it's fashionable to crap on Zuck and all things Meta, but this is truly a landmark moment.

Even if Meta isn't the eventual winner, the starter pistol just got fired for the AI/smart-glasses era.

Game on!

https://t.co/ci9k7DIJXq

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

@WheelerrDealerr @elonmusk What a classy response that shows your level of intelligence and class. Immediately resort to wishes of death. Thanks for showing us all your quality.

People like you won't ever achieve anything, will have zero impact on the future, and will be forgotten as soon as they die.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

@WheelerrDealerr @elonmusk Cope more you neo-luddite assclown. This IS the future but, by all means, rage away. It won't make a single drop of difference, except for bringing joy to those of us who are accelerating and laughing as we fly past you.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

https://t.co/1s02NzUcep

Sanity prevails.

Of course, training is transformative and fair use, and now there is a US Federal Court confirming it.

Decels and rent-seekers' position is crumbling as we always knew it would.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

Jim is absolutely correct. This is the only logical outcome. I applaud him for making this honest statement.

We, as humans, don't walk around with a perfect copy of every single image we ever saw of a tree or dog or cat burned into our memory forever.

Neither do AI models.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

Bravo, John.

Perfect answer to neo-luddite nonsense.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I think you are misunderstanding what this tech demo actually is, but I will engage with what I think your gripe is — AI tooling trivializing the skillsets of programmers, artists, and designers.

My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper characters into hex digits. Software progress has made that work as irrelevant as chariot wheel maintenance.

Building power tools is central to all the progress in computers.

Game engines have radically expanded the range of people involved in game dev, even as they deemphasized the importance of much of my beloved system engineering.

AI tools will allow the best to reach even greater heights, while enabling smaller teams to accomplish more, and bring in some completely new creator demographics.

Yes, we will get to a world where you can get an interactive game (or novel, or movie) out of a prompt, but there will be far better exemplars of the medium still created by dedicated teams of passionate developers.

The world will be vastly wealthier in terms of the content available at any given cost.

Will there be more or less game developer jobs? That is an open question. It could go the way of farming, where labor saving technology allow a tiny fraction of the previous workforce to satisfy everyone, or it could be like social media, where creative entrepreneurship has flourished at many different scales. Regardless, “don’t use power tools because they take people’s jobs” is not a winning strategy.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

@ednewtonrex Hilarious to watch the death throes of you dinosaurs.

This silent album is about as effective as farriers protesting cars by making wafer-thin horseshoes.

The future belongs to artists who adapt and embrace the technology. They will replace you.

Good riddance to you, clowns.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

The flurry of recent breakthroughs in AI, fusion, and quantum computing, along with the public reaction to them, has reinforced my view that blanket skepticism is a midwit strategy.

A person who instinctively dismisses new advances out of hand often has limited bandwidth or lacks the raw intelligence necessary to evaluate something new and complex on its merits.

Unable to make a proper assessment, they default to the safest option: "This must be a fraud, just like XYZ in the past," since, in general, claims are often overstated. This seems to be a safe bet because getting duped/being a victim can be costly.

Of course, skepticism can be a valid starting point and is an important tool, but stubbornly clinging to it is the hallmark of a lazy and incurious mind.

[I_for_one_welcome_our_new_AI_overlords @watsdatnoiz]

@perrymetzger To add to this:

5000 years ago, houses, mess halls, and wheels existed.
Sumerians had spaces for commerce, but they had ZERO conception of a WeWork, CloudKitchen, or Uber.

The benefits of efficiency have always gone far beyond what we could ever imagine in any given moment.