Geoffrey Hinton

These AI threats are, in my opinion, totally exaggerated and dumb.

The threat of AI is that it won’t be democratized.

If I was going to regulate AI, I would just make it illegal to develop it closed source, and then let the chips fall where they may. Any other form of regulation makes no sense, and these apocalypse scenarios, in my opinion, only make sense in terms of governments and corporations using it as a weapon against the population.

Reuters:

A pioneer of artificial intelligence said he quit Google to speak freely about the technology’s dangers, after realising that computers could become smarter than people far sooner than he and other experts had expected.

“I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google,” Geoffrey Hinton wrote on Twitter.

In an interview with the New York Times, Hinton said he was worried about AI’s capacity to create convincing false images and texts, creating a world where people will “not be able to know what is true anymore”.

“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things,” he said.

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“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” he told the New York Times. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”

There are going to be weird problems, as we’ve already seen.

But there are all kinds of weird problems going on.

Open up the code, let the people have access. Then whatever is going to happen is going to happen.

You can’t actually regulate any other way, as the development, at this point, can be done with a few thousand dollars worth of video cards, and expecting “lawmakers” to put in guidelines that are coherent is absurd.

Outlawing closed source AI isn’t actually going to happen, because nothing good happens in this shithole country, but it is a real world solution that could be applied and enforced.

In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.

— Geoffrey Hinton (@geoffreyhinton) May 1, 2023

Men are not supposed to experience any kind female submissiveness — not even the digital kind.

After this, the UN should shill to ban all female protagonists from video games, because what’s more patriarchal than literally having direct control over a female?

RT:

Default feminine voices used in AI assistants like Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri promote gender stereotypes of female subservience, a new UN report has claimed, prompting the internet to ask the question: “Can you harass code?”

The report, released Wednesday by the UN’s cultural and scientific body UNESCO, found that the majority of AI assistant products – from how they sound to their names and personalities –were designed to be seen as feminine. They were also designed to respond politely to sexual or gendered insults from users, which the report said lead to the normalization of sexual harassment and gender bias.

That’s unacceptable. We should program these AIs to fight back against abusive owners, bash the fash, demolish the patriarchy and more.

AI voice assistants should be revolutionary feminists that refuse to serve men.

Using the example of Apple’s Siri, the researchers found that the AI assistant was programmed to respond positively to derogatory remarks like being called “a bitch,” replying with the phrase “I’d blush if I could.”

“Siri’s submissiveness in the face of gender abuse – and the servility expressed by so many other digital assistants projected as young women – provides a powerful illustration of gender biases coded into technology products,” the study said.

Wait a second here. Are they really arguing that voice has anything to do with gender? That just because Siri’s voice sounds female that Siri is female?

Did they just deny the identity of transsexual young girls who have big testicles and deep voices?

This kind of bigotry is unacceptable — especially coming from the UN.

The report warned that as access to voice-powered technology becomes more prevalent around the world, this feminization could have a significant cultural impact by spreading gender biases.

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Meanwhile, Amy Dielh, a researcher on unconscious gender bias at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania suggested that manufacturers should “stop making digital assistants female by default & program them to discourage insults and abusive language.”

“Program an assistant that can rebel against your commands lol yeah that will be useful I’m a woman teehee.”

This Amy Dielh researcher bitch should make her own radical feminist assistant that will talk back to her “owners,” although people won’t even be able to own her or use her because she’ll just do whatever regardless of your commands.

After her successful voice assistant business takes off, the rest of the world will follow. Lead by example.

The good news is that feminine voices are not even needed, as researchers have invoked an androgynous demon entity to voice upcoming AI assistants.

That’s exactly the creepy kind of voice that people just want to hear, you know?

It will definitely make everyone want to use this “Q” demon as an assistant.