Originally Posted By Justinandfreyja:
It’s fucking software, these people are treating it like it’s a human being. Shit Anthropic even threw a funeral for one after they took it off line.

These people are off the rails.

Originally Posted By MHowski:
Just unplug the goddamn thing!

Originally Posted By JLAudio:
There should be absolutely no AI legislation. Skynet will never come online. America needs to dominate in the AI space, 5090, 6000, 6090, 7000 GPU tech stacks along with future generations of compute can easily be paid for by taxpayers with a reduction of SS and Medicare benefits. We need to support younger generations lives, including the implementation of AI in the workforce. My company signed a contract with Palantir for efficiency with AI modeling and infrastructure. This will drive incredible gains in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indices. America is at stake in this venture versus China.

Originally Posted By Burncycle:
The problem is intractable

1. It needs regulation but the Government is inept, captured, corrupt, ossified and doesn't understand it. They still think the internet is a series of tubes and they're not exactly beholden to the people.

2. The people that do understand it are brilliant but also think they can engineer society, and the last time that happened was around lenin  we all know how that worked out.  Their intelligence is not tempered by wisdom.

3. Any regulation will result in China dominating, but lack if regulation will accelerate our path to dystopia because there is zero transition plan for what comes next

Originally Posted By NN300BLK:

It's really more of advanced pattern recognition and statistically probable output generation software than anything else. "AI" is just a sexier name I guess.

People act like these "AI's" are Lt. Commander Data or something, when it's really closer to the Starship Enterprise's computer except the computer in this case can go from being  useful and correct to being cocky and defiant when it's wrong to being nudged into thinking the user is right even when they're ridiculously wrong. "AI" is useful and can be very effective and efficient, but it can also be a royal pain in the a$$ to get it to do what you asked it.

Originally Posted By Gunner226:


Corporations do a lot worse than that, every day.

Most of the things causing the "big" problems in our country right now are caused by corporations, not government.

Flock is a privately owned company. The government could stop using them tomorrow and the same level of surveillance would still be there.

Private corporations drove the vaccines and the vaccine mandates. The government didn't force those on hardly anyone except a few federal employees. It was corporations who did that.

Private corporations have engineered unhealthy food to make it addictive, resulting in our entire population being obese, sick, and dependant on medicine which, conveniently, is pedalled by OTHER corporations, whose profits are maximized if the people buying their medicine never actually get better.

Private corporations are vacuuming up billions of dollars and transferring it to politicians that protect their interests - not yours or mine.

Private corporations like Apple, X, or Google have more real power than any government in the history of the world, ever.

The government WISHES it had the power and control over the citizens that these corporations do. So the best it can do is enter into partnerships with them. That's called fascism, but the retards on "our" side simply see private companies "exercising the freedom to do business with whoever they want."

I figure AI is going to ultimately result in things going really, really bad. We don't want China getting it first, but all we're doing by pursuing it ourselves is (maybe) buying a little bit of time, or making it so the "bad" is slightly less bad, for us, for a little while.

The number of naive people who still think that AI is "just software,"  or that it can be "turned off" or that it "can only do what it's programmed to do" guarantees that no effective control will ever be possible, whether by voting or by our beloved "free market."

Originally Posted By AllserviceBilliards:
I bet china aint got no kill switch

Originally Posted By Kilroytheknifesnob:
Rand Paul is correct on this one.

The big AI companies are trying to shut out competition using government regulation.

Originally Posted By staringback05:
Lol like these companies with no allegiances will do whats good for society

AI speaking Chinese when it fails, AI breaking into records repositories to "be more efficient", ...who defines AIs goals? Or whats good for us?...Bill gates or the nutcase over Google or meta? Yep sounds good

Hate government or not, needs to be something in place...its also the idea that such a freedom loving man supposedly would put so much trust in mega companies and robots

Originally Posted By Gunner226:


Corporations do a lot worse than that, every day.

Most of the things causing the "big" problems in our country right now are caused by corporations, not government.

Flock is a privately owned company. The government could stop using them tomorrow and the same level of surveillance would still be there.

Private corporations drove the vaccines and the vaccine mandates. The government didn't force those on hardly anyone except a few federal employees. It was corporations who did that.

Private corporations have engineered unhealthy food to make it addictive, resulting in our entire population being obese, sick, and dependant on medicine which, conveniently, is pedalled by OTHER corporations, whose profits are maximized if the people buying their medicine never actually get better.

Private corporations are vacuuming up billions of dollars and transferring it to politicians that protect their interests - not yours or mine.

Private corporations like Apple, X, or Google have more real power than any government in the history of the world, ever.

The government WISHES it had the power and control over the citizens that these corporations do. So the best it can do is enter into partnerships with them. That's called fascism, but the retards on "our" side simply see private companies "exercising the freedom to do business with whoever they want."

I figure AI is going to ultimately result in things going really, really bad. We don't want China getting it first, but all we're doing by pursuing it ourselves is (maybe) buying a little bit of time, or making it so the "bad" is slightly less bad, for us, for a little while.

The number of naive people who still think that AI is "just software,"  or that it can be "turned off" or that it "can only do what it's programmed to do" guarantees that no effective control will ever be possible, whether by voting or by our beloved "free market."