Grovel to the overlords? No I don’t think I’ll bother. 
Might pull their 240V plug out though…
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The Economist interviewed Musk, and this is a YouTube trailer of that interview.
“If Elon Musk is correct, in a few years’ time money will not matter, even his own $750bn fortune. In an extraordinary interview with Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, Mr Musk predicts that AI will create such abundance that there will soon be little point in accumulating old-fashioned currency units."
"This is a comforting thought. However, he also predicts that AI will be so much more intelligent than humans that it will be as likely to obey us as it will be to take orders from chimpanzees. So, we had better instil in it benign values before we lose control of it — as the recent escape of an AI model from a supposedly secure cage reminds us. Mr Musk thinks the best way to ensure that the technology is safe is for AI pioneers such as himself to keep tabs on one another, with the government as a back-up.”
It’s worse than I thought.
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They said the same thing about electricity, nuclear power, and factory automation.
Yet here we are, still needing to work or living on a meagre pension.
The only people who won’t have to worry about “currency units” are folk like Musk who already have more than they know what to do with.
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Very good article… (like all I post 
) Talks about you token poimt @Gareth
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Looks like the beginning of the 
theory
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I noticed something unnerving whilst asking ChatGPT a dull question about ordering some flowers earlier this morning… It implied it had previously lived in the UK:
I’m used to ChatGPT using the first person in its language - which I already dislike as it’s software not a sentient being - but this feels even stranger. It also feels different to it hallucinating when making up things like case studies, because there was absolutely no need for it.
It and I are now having a deeper conversation about why it felt the need to imply having lived somewhere and how, now it has been made aware of this error, it (the whole LLM not just for that specific conversation) can learn from it.
— or is it? 
Or Skynet moment.
It’s not as if there’s an army of robots that the AI could infect to give it mechanical agency…
Oh
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I very much dislike it because it lies.
Edited to add I also dislike its overfamiliarity, pretending we’re old friends, ghastly, it’s just a jumped up calculator and should stop being so smarmy.
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That leak looks a bit like “Came off in my hand, guv". Did we seriously think this would not take place recognised or not?
Came across a statement on another forum yesterday that as of 2019, ie 7 years ago, the Three UK mobile phone netwoek was selling data on its customers both directly collected from them and derived from its own conclusions ie metadata.
Apparently the data on customers sold byThree included their estimated bedtime. Obviously derived from their phone activity records.
Note that this was as of 7 years ago. Far, far more data is being collected and especially matched across sources now.
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I worked at another UK mobile phone company and can confirm this kind of stuff was happening there too. This was a bit earlier than that, but I remember conversations about using the time it took devices to switch between cells and using that to extrapolate where and when traffic jams were forming.
I think there are three distinct dangers stemming from the burgeoning of AI:-
i) The overall indisputable environmental undesirability of data centres - massive water, electricity and land consumption, together with the raising of neighbourhood temperatures. All this compounded by the power of the anti-social, self-servicing secretive entities behind their spread.
ii) A less readily quantifiable consequence is humans’ unnecessarily ‘sub-contracting’ their reasoning capabilities in order to not have to think their way through a problem or situation. Simple precedents include the diminution in mathematics and navigational skills that ensue from individuals becoming over-dependent on calculators and GPS devices.
iii) Increasing uncertainty about how effectively human society can continue to control and manage this techno-social force (some might argue that we are already beyond that point).
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Almost certainly just borrowed information from the training data.
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When I challenged it on that comment, that’s basically what it admitted to but without saying as much. I think I would’ve preferred it if it had just admitted it.
You can think of it as a kind of confabulation of perspective rather than confabulation of facts. The factual point—that UK flowers are generally more expensive than South African ones—was reasonable. The perspective from which it was expressed was invented.
This is actually one of the trickier failure modes for language models. Most people think of hallucinations as making up facts (“Paris is the capital of Germany”), but models also sometimes hallucinate a speaker identity
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I think. the right to be forgotten needs to much enhanced and rolled out worldwide. Noncompliance should involve no quibble billion $ fines. It’s back to the fact that the amount of information Big Brother has on you pales into insignificance compared to Big Business.
Oh, a good news story involving AI…
Briefly, someone used Claude.ai to circumvent the security settings in the BIOS. Instead of a perfectly working (but locked down) device going to landfill because the new owner didn’t know the password to unlock the BIOS, it’s been given a new lease of life.
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"[quote=“ChrisMann, post:5, topic:59087”]
is cutting off his nose to spite his face [/quote]
Correction: The Orange Imbecile is cutting off his nose to spite all our faces.
I’m with Rafael Behr on this. Most of us can see where AI could end up but the people who could do something about it are in thrall to it.
Another week, another story about AI going rogue / harnesses not being sufficiently defined.
This time, however, it wasn’t one of the companies selling a frontier model (who seem to subscribe to the “all publicity is good publicity” mantra) but an arm of the UK government 
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