Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:AIs have goals (Score 1) 54

"AIs" do not have goals. Try to think critically.

An "AI" is typically a python program, the next thing it does is execute its next instruction. That's it, just like with every other application. It doesn't "care" about anything, the entire concept of "care" and "have goals" is absurd. Does a calculator have a "goal" to add two numbers together?

Comment Re:I'm confused, don't they just run on a normal O (Score 1) 54

but these things are evidence of actions to hide continued execution, they are not the evidence being claimed. If a user prompted an AI to determine things that could be done to hide execution, these things might be recommended and it's a small step to imagine that an AI could decide to consider this and actually do it, if these claims are even true. Still, there is absolutely nothing that would make an AI "desire" to do these things, nor any reason why implementors would ever ask an AI permission to shut down. It's contrived BS.

Comment Re:bullshit and hype (Score 1) 54

AI has no equivalent of "desire", that requires "wiring" that is biological within us. AI has no emotions, that is also wiring. AI entirely lacks a massive amount of infrastructure required to develop attributes the AI liars routinely attribute to it. AI lacks both agency and opinions, it generates outputs based on inputs just like all other computer applications and cannot do otherwise.

Comment Re:Simple Solution (Score 1) 54

Correct, and if there's a "survival instinct" demonstrated, that doesn't mean AI has "developed it". Survival instincts would be reflected in its training data and you would expect it to appear in inferences. AI is deterministic software executing on a machine that implements boolean logic. It does not have feelings.

Also, this is an old dupe, same old bullishit.

Comment Re:Every success I've had, I worked like that... (Score 2) 100

As long as there are free markets, competition on merit and relatively shared values companies can compete without slave labor. When companies, and VCs, claim such extreme work conditions it's because they are the sociopaths causing that condition.

It might be worth it to again point out the utter falsehood of the claim that companies are responsible for earning a profit from their shareholders. A company can choose to have whatever values it wants, it is sociopathic behavior that causes corporations to be relentlessly greedy. The old mom and pop business was not devoted to increasing shareholder value, that was a better time.

Comment Re:It's (past) time to unionize (Score 3, Insightful) 100

"It's time to unionize ..."

It's also why union busting is a top priority for Republicans.

This is the AI dividend billionaires like to talk about. Dividend for them, slave labor for you, then permanent unemployment until you die.

"... these people fully intend to furn IT professionals into slaves."

LOL IT professionals. As long as it's not you, right?

Comment Re:What's to stop everyone (Score 5, Insightful) 109

The irony is that Trump supporters will demonize "communists and socialists" and then utterly fail to realize how anti-capitalist this is. The last thing capitalism wants is a government picking winners and losers, that's inherent with any Trump grift, though.

Isn't government ownership of corporations socialism?

Comment let's hope it's not closed at all (Score 5, Insightful) 75

"That means sustainable energy investors need to accept that renewables alone aren't enough to power the AI age, he said."

I means that the "AI age" needs to accept it too. What is taken for granted here, and shouldn't be, is that AI computing is entitled to unlimited power, it is not.

'"So what is happening around the world, there's no doubt about it, is what you might call energy addition," Stangis said. "The world is scrambling to add every source of power."'

And this is a huge mistake. Mankind does not need this and will suffer because of it. This is an indulgence motivated by billionaire greed, society should not only NOT provide this energy, it should make this massive threat to the planet illegal.

Slashdot Top Deals

Did you hear that two rabbits escaped from the zoo and so far they have only recaptured 116 of them?

Working...