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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 9733700" data-attributes="member: 5889">So just finishing up a little project where I had an AI generate a python script to create dozens of iterations of a boardgame map I am considering, as well as perform a regression analysis of all of the cards in the game to see if there are any power outliers. And...it did pretty darn well. Only took me an hour of work. I know some coding, and I know just a smidge of python....but there it is.People that don't think this technology is transformative are kidding themselves. I am waiting for the next wave when tv starts dying out because people can just make their own shows and movies. Kids a few years from now won't go to the movies or watch tv...they will just have the AI make up something cool...and if they don't like it they can edit it on the fly. The best of the bunch will trickle up and be shared by all. Complete disruptor to the entertainment industry.So how is AI going to screw us? There are a number of possible ways:1) Ignorant Destruction: If the AI goes full skynet, honestly it probably won't be malicious in a "I must kill all the humans" kind of way. More likely an AI will be given some task, and it will do it....not realizing that the task will also involve a mass extinction event on earth.....oops.A big part of this is that prompting an AI is still as much mysticism as it is science. Just like the old days of superstition, you find something that works and you just go with it, but truly breaking down that sentence A made the AI do task X is still very much a grey area. And so people are going to write bad prompts, and as the tool gets stronger, at some point its going to do something bad on a massive scale.2) Massive world wide hack: While AI can put some code together, one thing it is TERRIBLE at is secure code. like god awful. And so its only a matter of time before enough sites have some massive vulnerabilities that hackers (probably powered by AI themselves) will wrecking ball.3) Irrelevance of Humanity: Much more likely than the AI killing us, is it simply replaces us. Of course as AI becomes posed to take human jobs, the normal call of "but new jobs will be created to replace them".I don't believe that. Will there be new jobs created....of course there will. And humans might work on them....for a litle bit. But then an AI will be trained to do that job and its off to the races.When machines replaced our physical labor, we shifted to mental tasks for the predominance of our economies. But now AI is posed to replace the mental labor. Every job you can think of is a combination of physical and mental labor....and if the machines become better at both there is no job you will create that humans would be better at than machines....and certainly not on the level needed to support every with work.And maybe you get a Universal Basic Income going, but what are humans going to do? They don't need to work....and likely the machines will get better at creative tasks. So its the Wallie scenario, humans just become fat lazy slobs that sit in chairs drink soda and just hang out all day.4) The Will to PowerTechnological transformations can often shift and concentrate power in new sources. It is possible that a new Alexander or Ghengis Khan will arise, powered by AI and robotics to unless a new power on the world....once again enslaving mankind to a dictator. While that could be a Skynet AI....it could just as likely be a human who saw the potential and seized the opportunity.So yeah lots of ways this can end badly for humanity.</blockquote>

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