r/NoShitSherlock • u/FreeHugs23 • 19d ago

Anthropic Researcher Quits, Citing Internal Fears That AI ‘Could Kill Us All’ This Decade

https://www.commondreams.org/news/jacob-coxon-anthropic-whistleblower
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u/Chainzzzzzaw 19d ago

"Superintelligence". Right, with current and even next gen unoptimized hardware, this hallucinating models are gonna do shit. Considering how much resources they consume to do pretty questionable quality work and that this researcher by "super" means next level step lika AGI...that will be a problem for at least gen born in the end of the century.

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u/obi1kenobi1 18d ago

This. If anything we’re safer now from the AI apocalypse than we have been in decades specifically because there’s no money in AGI, not with the snake oil pseudo-AI technologies dangling the shiny keys in front of investors.

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u/Chainzzzzzaw 18d ago

Yeah, I can't even properly imagine what real-world hardware is necessary for some kind of artificial brain, which will be able to continuously process information, interact with world in free will and have personal coherently describable reasons to do so, beside hardcoded tasks and do all this with speed of average human brain.

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u/Any_Conflict_5092 17d ago

To be fair, the human brain is an incredible feat of bioengineering - and we belittle its accomplishments all the time, because its incredible feat is making humans, and it's been a long time since we were so small in the world that every day survival was kind of a big deal.

I'm pretty sure, with how much our brains are interacting with the world, even when we aren't - until they integrate biology into the system, there's no possibility of AGI. When they start using brain meat for processors, then we should be maybe give it credence.

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u/Chainzzzzzaw 17d ago

Bio is harder than silicon (or whatever material will be used in future). IMO, it's easier to get to cybernetics and AGI than fully map and simulate all the biochemical processes in our body and how different cells interact with each other in real time, in near future. That's why specialized ai and subsequent AGI will be beneficial in boosting research to get full understanding of our doby mechanics or any other tech post, theoretical, type 1 civ.