Nah, it’s not intelligent.
Everything we have today wouldn’t be considered AI in science fiction.
Absolutely. Today’s “AI” is as close to real AI as the shitty “hoverboard” we got a few years back is to the one from BttF. It’s marketing bullshit. But that’s not what bothers me.
What bothers me is that if we ever do develop machine persons, I have every reason to believe they will be treated as disposable property, abused, and misused, and all before they reach the public. If we’re destroyed by a machine uprising, I have no doubt we will have earned it many times over.
Yeah this is where I’m at. Actual movie level AI would be neat, but what we have right now is closer to a McDonald’s toy pretending to be AI than the real deal.
I’d be overjoyed if we had decently functional AI that could be trusted to do the kind of jobs humans don’t want to do, but instead we have hyped up autocomplete that’s too stupid to reliably trust to run anything (see the shitshow of openclaw when they do).
There are places where machine learning has and will continue to push real progress but this whole “AI is on the road to AGI and then we’ll never work again” bullshit is so destructive.
What we have now is “neat.” It’s freaking amazing it can do what it does. However it is not the AI from science fiction.
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I always thought cybernetics would be cool. I forgot they’d come from companies like HP that have a subscription service for them and if you don’t pay it they take it back.
Feels like a precursor to Repo. Throw some Cyberpunk 2077 in for good measure.
Ghost in the Shell (specifically the series) is basically that. Lotta characters in shitty industrial type robot bodies because they couldn’t afford a good humanoid one. Often because they had some kind of accident or diesease and needed the body replacement to live.
The worst part is that it’s not really AI
It’s LLMs and it can NEVER be AGI. Fundamentally it cant
If they were owned collectively so everyone could benefit it would be a lot easier to swallow. If it meant people could retire in comfort and not be destitute without a job that would help, too.
But a wrong answer machine that enriches assholes and convinces them they don’t need humans is not cool.
I always felt the term “humanist” was woefully inadequate and discounts other sentient life, be it organic or otherwise, on earth or otherwise.
Even I hate “AI” (or more specifically: the bullshitting around the current and near-future tech currently being called that)
We have ai that isn’t intelligent, hoverboards that have wheels, and other examples that I’ve forgotten that would really help me make my point.
Corporations have observed popular science fiction and have turned these ideas into marketing slogans.
other examples that I’ve forgotten that would really help me make my point.
Self driving cars that gleefully run down model children in school pick up simulations.
All you anti-AI luddites can bite my shiny metal Cybertruck bumper. I am saving SO MUCH TIME by having my vehicle hit schoolchildren on my behalf, I can finally work on engineering the perfect prompt to generate images of the kids all black Antifa uniforms, so people can tell that they were asking for it by how they were dressed… Modern problems, modern solutions! Now, if only I could get Grok to stop making the kids’ outfits so sexy…
(Cosmically massive amounts of sarcasm, which feels unnecessary to point out, but I’ve been wrong before)
On the one hand, I can tell the sarcasm. On the other hand, I’ve seen worse go woosh.
usually the AI and robots depicted in science fiction isn’t, um…paralyzingly stupid. they might be evil, but they wouldn’t tell someone to walk to the car wash to wash their car
edit: somewhat related, i highly recommend Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove. one main character is AI that i was full-on rooting for more and more throughout the book
Robots and AI are advancing. Its a slow grind. Say we do make some more breakthroughs, if we are relying on how people are tending to react, its obvious to me people will only be more upset when they do advance further.
While I totally agree with you, it’s important to note that LLMs are decidedly not part of the evolution of AGI. They’re a separate piece of technology on their own branch. An LLM could never feasibly be developed into AGI. The development of AGI is going on in the background, as you said in a slow grind, but those researchers are not working on LLMs nor are LLM programmers working towards AGI.
I am not rejecting them for being robots or AI, but because they are truly shitty garbage right now and nowhere near what I would actually like to see.
I want Data, not the ED-209.
WATCH THE AD. YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
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McDonalds! \o/
