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Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’ (www.theguardian.com)

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Artificial intelligence is already advancing at a worrying pace. What if we don’t slam on the brakes? Experts explain what keeps them up at night

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[–] Spacebar@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Large Language Models are nothing but very advanced regurgitation machines. That's the AI these articles are hand wringing about - not a real Artificial Intelligence.

These articles remind me of the bitcoin articles we used to see.

[–] nanoobot@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What ability do you think that they are currently missing that makes them 'regurgitation machines' rather than just limited and dumb but genuine early AI?

[–] m532@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sentience

[–] nanoobot@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Why does an AI have to be sentient to be intelligent?

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