I’ve been listening to this video breaking down Mo Gawdat’s “Scary Smart” and honestly I’m terrified for what’s coming. Gawdat, a former Google X exec, argues that superintelligent AI is coming and we need to raise it with the right values. But his solution is individual consciousness and meditation, not collective action.
Meanwhile, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and the rest are locked in a race to the bottom, building more powerful AI systems with zero democratic input. The same corporations that brought us surveillance capitalism, algorithmic management of warehouse workers, and AI tools that displace creative workers are now deciding the future of superintelligence.
The working class — the people who will actually live or die by these systems — have no seat at the table. We’re told to “become more conscious” while boardrooms make existential decisions behind closed doors.
So my question: how do we actually democratize AI development? Or are we just going to sit down and hope for the best while capital gambles with the future of humanity?
We’re not building superintelligence. Though I guess the risks are still there when you give control to dumb intelligence.
The idea that we could accidentally create a superintelligence is a psy-op by the companies looking to boost their stocks.
We’re on a double-exponential curve in both software and hardware improvement. If you don’t think a better algorithm than LLMs will emerge sooner rather than later, given all the money being poured into this space, I don’t know what to tell you.
LLMs are not intelligent. They never will be because they can’t be. The technology is all about drawing correlation between words, but they don’t know what the words means or even what words are. “Intelligence” is a misnomer. Yes LLMs will get better at what they do, but they will never be intelligent.
You are speculating about something with no evidence.
You are doing the same? Answering with no evidence.
You are pointing at a remote potential you consider inevitable and saying condescendingly “Well of course this will happen!?”.
The burden of proof is on you.
I don’t have a crystal ball, as you said I’m speculating and you somehow expect me to provide proof on something that is yet to pass.
I expect people not to spread disinformation about technology that sells a scifi fantasy as an inevitability just around the corner without providing any proof that it will happen.
You are bullshitting, stop bullshitting.
I’m posting on a forum, not a wiki, I’m not going to put more than a few minutes of work on a post. Fuck off and go bother someone else.
I think it’s an inevitability. Stop telling people what they can or cannot do.
No one cares what your vibe opinions about AI are especially if you will not give even a shred of evidence to back up your assertations.
Incredible claims require incredible evidence… do you really not know that basic aspect about rational discussion?