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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
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I'm not an AI techie and I'm not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I'm having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I've heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can't really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

In worst case the humankind will find out consciousness isn’t too complex and way easier to achieve.

And there are different levels of consciousness as I learned working with impacted people.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    The whole political stance that "anybody can do anything if they just put their mind/body to it" is... bunk.

    It's not just in the world of identified "impacted people" with injuries, or congenital differences - we are ALL unique, different, and have differing abilities in differing areas.

    The political stance is valuable in terms of preventing discrimination and prejudice. Women can be great scientists and mathematicans, but an honest statistician/sociologist would tell you: it's not just societal discrimination and prejudice that puts more men in these fields. Then you have the upside-down prejudices where there are more men in middle and upper management, even though, statistically, in a society that doesn't discriminate based on prejudice, women tend to be better at the actual skills used for good management / people skills.

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