Comment

Comment on Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable

Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Maybe. But I have a feeling it’ll be a dumb single mistake that’ll make someone say “ah, shit” just before we’re wiped out.

When the Soviets trained anti-tank dogs in WW2 they did so on tanks that weren’t running to save fuel: “Their deployment revealed some serious problems… In the field, the dogs refused to dive under moving tanks.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

History is littered with these kinds of mistakes. It would only take one military AI with access to autonomous weapons to have a similar issue in it’s training data to potentially kill us all.

source

Sort:hotnew top

princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m so glad they weren’t “kamikaze” dogs.

I very much expected that story to end with the dogs targeting Soviet tanks.
source
GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Why in God’s name would we put weapons that pose a legitimate threat to the whole of humanity under the control of an ai? I just don’t think this one sounds plausible.

source