Recent scare stories obscure the fact that the risk posed by artificial intelligence is most likely to come from its misuse by the powerful

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    2 days ago

    Oh there’s artificial intelligence now? That’s neat. I thought we were stuck with chat bots.

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      ‘Artificial intelligence’ has been around for quite a while. The headlines were grabbed by LLMs, but that’s not the only place that the investment money has gone. None of these major companies with public facing LLMs are exclusively working with them.

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        1 day ago

        Llm’s are not ai. Llm’s get in the way of real ai research, as they do all other thought.

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            If you include the thing that im playing against when i run a computer opponent in ‘starcraft: brood war’, or the thing included in my keyboard app to help me type tgis, sure. Yes. It’s ai.

            It is not in any meaningful sense intelligence or a convincing simulation thereof.