[Escape Artist]

Originally Posted by MrLonzo

Interesting article, kind of lengthy & too much to digest all at once. The author should consider presenting it in progressive segments on a Youtube channel.

I get how AI can write something original, but my question is how will AI obliterate humanity?

Is what AI writes original? Or a compilation of already written material, much of which is still under copyright? I think it’s a plagiarism problem more than anything else. Or intellectual property theft, whatever you want to call it.

[spinner1001]

Originally Posted by Escape Artist

Is what AI writes original?

Yes, it’s not plagiarism.

[spinner1001]

Originally Posted by MrLonzo

…but my question is how will AI obliterate humanity?

I don’t believe it is likely but since you asked…

Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI - Econlib

[PurePeach]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

I understand what your saying but It's the sign of the times and like it or not,
it's here to stay.

Just one more way today’s society is dumbing down. Can’t read an analog clock, make change, read cursive writing, don’t know how to speak correctly, punctuate, or spell. We will soon devolve back to cavemen/women. :

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

I understand what your saying but It's the sign of the times and like it or not,
it's here to stay.

maybe, the future is uncertain, and the future hasn't arrived yet

[merrymini]

Terminator

[rsmurano]

Originally Posted by JRcorvette

Can it teach people to drive in round a bouts?

No, you have to have some intelligence to start with.

[Whitley]

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

Wow! that's impressive, now how many english class students will use the shortcut and not learn how to write creatively themselves?

sigh. .

Been going on for awhile already. There are ways to catch people using AI to write papers. AI will probably fix that gap by Version 5

[rsmurano]

Originally Posted by spinner1001

The code for LLMs is not new and a lot in the public domain. Any of us can download it.

What is new is the magnitude of the training data, and huge improvements in computer processing power and storage.

Every year since the 70’s that I was involved with computers, the technology got better, cheaper and faster every year. That is nothing new. A bigger mainframe would come out every year or you would build a cluster of computers (supercomputers) to process more data. Personal computers increased performance every year since the 70’s too.

What that means today, your faster computer can generate inefficient code faster. Faster computers don’t automatically make all the programs running on them more efficient it just means Bad code runs faster.

Looks like there are a few of us that were in the IT area during our working lives