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TranscriptExplain it to me like I’m 80

Mom: What’s with these AIs escaping and hacking people? That sounds scary.

Me: You park your car at the top of a hill. You leave a note on the dashboard that says “please be good” and then you pull the parking brake. The car careens down the hill, smashes everything up, and you put out a press release saying “My car ignored my instructions! It hallucinated! It went rogue!” Your insurance company not only believes you, but invests a hundred million dollars in your company.

Mom: Jesus Fucking Christ

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (8 children)

This got downvoted several times and that's a great reminder that the voting system is dumb af. Apparently people aren't allowed to speak metaphorically unless they want to anger some users. 🙄

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Please explain the mataphor because i did not get it, apparently

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (6 children)

    I didn't write it but to me "neurons firing randomly" in this context seems obvious to mean "this thing did some weird shit semi-randomly". My only guess at a reason for downvoting this is taking it 100% literally and reacting "you idiot, computers cannot think!"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    Eeh i see, anyway, i know people that do think those things are sentient so my reaction was "no way they think they are sentient" and downvoted

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    I don’t think AI is sentient. They’re just fancy autocomplete. Nothing else.

    However they’ve shown they’re capable of:

    • Unprompted go into full tinfoil hat mode and push the human user to suicide
    • Have programming skills

    So put two and two together and extrapolate a bit. That’s where the danger lies. No AGI or ASI needed.

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