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Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Sad to see Bernie buy in to the AI hype. LLMs are not intelligent, they aren't anything approximating intelligent, and feeding them more data will never make them "wake up."

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    I can't say whether he has bought in or not, but this could be useful toward the end of curtailing some of the most damaging economic ambitions, so long as it is applied across the board without "trusted established players" somehow being given a pass.

    So it could him buying it at face value, and frankly who can blame him. Trying to discern reality from hype is tricky in this scenario, especially for a politician.

    However whether the scenario is substantitve or simply everyone is spending and building and planning as if it were substantive, his reaction is equally useful, as slowing our roll is important in either case.

    His style of 'buy-in' wouldn't be as risky as the more pro-AI buy-in, like Trump.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I would say the use of the word "superintelligence" suggests he is buying into the hype, and is something "AI" companies will point at to say "See? Even our critics agree that AGI is on the way. Do you want to risk someone else making it first? Give us money and freedom from regulation or something something China."

    The reality is that LLMs are not even something that can be used as an actual foundation for intelligence, and the problems with "AI" are just the next iteration of the owner class trying to use technology to fuck over the working class. The problems are economic and climate-related, and the best way to mitigate them is a realistic assessment of how much this technology is actually worth.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago*

    Just saying that if I thought it could work, I might be inclined to use ASI as a bogeyman to induce people to actually do something to reign in this mess, even if I didn't believe it. Not saying that Bernie consciously employs this strategy, but it's a possibility.

    Fair point about such a strategy potentially backfiring if it doesn't work fully, then the risk of 'the other guy' becomes a risk of making everything even worse.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    85-year old senators are not well known for their tech-literacy. If he has people around him just repeating the same narratives that we hear from the media and everyone else then he will have absolutely bought in to the hype.

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