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AI Companies And Advocates Are Becoming More Cult-Like::How one writer's trip to the annual tech conference CES left him with a sinking feeling about the future.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Better be careful what you say

I know it’s not the point, but that always strikes me as so dumb. Wouldn’t a superintelligent being know that you were simply hiding your true feelings?

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

What bugs me about it is the same problem the wager has. What if there was a later AI that punished you for helping the first one? And a still later one that punished you for not helping the first one. Since the number of invented gods are infinite and have contradictionary commands no action or inaction promises salvation.

[–] rho50@lemmy.nz 2 points 9 months ago

Agreed, and it could definitely make such an assumption. The other aspect that I don’t really get is… if a superintelligent entity were to eventuate, why would it care?

We’re going to be nothing but bugs to it. It’s not likely to be of any consequence to that entity whether or not I expected/want it to exist.

The anthropomorphising going on with the AI hype is just crazy.