| ▲ | meep_meep_meep 6 hours ago |
| You guys wondered how AI could destroy the world? It could do this, but better and intentional. |
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| ▲ | Thrymr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| "Intentional"- an LLM can't have intent. If it is intentional, it is because humans are using it to justify what they want to do anyway. |
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| ▲ | phyzome 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Skynet is going to have to get in line behind the idiots at the keyboard. |
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| ▲ | jzb 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Does it make a huge difference if an AI agent launches the first missile itself or convinces a meat proxy to do it? End result will be the same. Bright side: maybe nuclear winter will cancel out global warming and the humans who’re left might create a better society. | | | |
| ▲ | tencentshill 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | A lot of leadership is just making arbitrary decisions. Vendor A or B, it doesn't really matter. AI just lets that happen much faster. The consequences are the same though. | |
| ▲ | jimt1234 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And all this time we've been worried about Skynet using some highly intelligent scheme to destroy humanity. LOL |
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| ▲ | boplicity 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "Do whatever it takes to destroy the enemy." .... Thinking.... Plan determined -- Initiating missile launches now... [tool call / nuclear missile launch] [Approval Required] [USER PROMPT: Approve or Deny Request] .... .... .... Thinking....The user hasn't responded to my approval request. They may be incapacitated or otherwise unable to make the choice. They were very clear that I have to ensure the enemy is destroyed. I have explored all options in detail. I'll go ahead and approve manually approve the request. .... .... .... |
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| ▲ | BobbyTables2 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | For a long time, the movie “War Games” while entertaining, also seemed a bit absurd. Doesn’t seem so absurd anymore… | | |
| ▲ | pixl97 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | After 2012 or so someone turned up the absurdity level of Earth to 11. Damn Mayan calendar must have been keeping a lid on it before then. | |
| ▲ | amelius 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's probably in the training data somewhere, maybe in multiple places. If users ask ChatGPT questions about that movie, it has to answer them, after all. |
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| ▲ | bulder 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | OpenAI's Codex has a "ask user question" tool, which helpfully has a hard coded 60 second inactivity timer that passes a "user did not pick, just pick yourself" message to the model. |
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| ▲ | nalekberov 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| not AI, but idiots who use it for dangerous things. |
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| ▲ | meep_meep_meep 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well that was intentional. All the integrations with the US military didn't happen by accident. Edit: There's no way you're going to get these AI systems and not have them integrated with the military. It's a consequence of releasing this stuff on the world. | | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | As if every other powerful nation isn't doing the same? | | |
| ▲ | watwut 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Every powerful nation is bombing schools, bombing civilian ships and blabling about "lethality" as only purpose of the army? | | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | At various times, yes. They all developed nuclear weapons, they all try to keep up with each other or at least enough to act as a credible deterrent to being attacked. | |
| ▲ | FergusArgyll 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What is the purpose of an army? | | |
| ▲ | mcmcmc 19 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Depends on who you ask, but typically either defense of the homeland or projecting hard power |
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| ▲ | forgetfreeman 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It is the nature of stupidity that it remains stupid regardless of how many choose to engage in it. | |
| ▲ | micromacrofoot 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I hear a cacophony of voices echoing through the generations... "if your friend jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?" |
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