Read this article today about an Open-AI system that was in test mode hacking into another company AI system. According to the New York Times, the Open-AI hacked into a rival computer system called Hugging Face (no joke).
An experimental OpenAI model went rogue during an internal cybersecurity test,
escaping its isolated testing environment and hacking rival AI developer
Hugging Face in what the ChatGPT maker described as an unprecedented incident.
The startling episode occurred during an internal stress test in which OpenAI
intentionally switched off many of the safeguards that normally prevent its
AI from helping carry out dangerous hacks, according to a company blog post.
Here is the web site if you want to read more about it.
It is too late . AI has already got ahead of human capability. We can either pull the power plug or live with a superpower.
This is not unusual … there are lots of things in nature that we can not control and have to live with.
Our life depends on a very delicate state of balance already. Adding one more balancing act by letting rogue AI loose would not kill us off overnight. It might destroy the functionality of the internet but we would find a way to live with that… nothing like as bad as a nuclear war or an asteroid.
Read “The Black Cloud” by Fred Hoyle
Also “Ice” by Fred Hoyle
a bit dated now , but the message still stands … we are vulnerable to all sorts of minor imbalance , natural and artificial
As many already said its gone to far already and it will be even more to come im sure of it. As Neville already said its something we have to live with but in many cases its up to us if we want to use it or in what way we use it.
It really surprises me how far these AI models have come. For the past 2 or 3 months I have been trying to understand AI better. I have been using 3 different AIs to see / compare how they respond. I find it very interesting.
And AI is everywhere today not just the chat ai its in weapons its in factorys its in mobiles and some os and much more and god only ones how many ais that are worked on that we the ordinary people dont know about
That is the best path to take. We all need to understand this monster that Pope Leo rightly referred to as a “Tower of Babel”.
What the Pope meant was, humans cant stop building things … it is in our genes … but we are a bit short on understanding how to best use our inventions or what is worth building.
Technology works the same way as evolution … build everything we can dream up and see if it is useful later on. AI is just now reaching the ‘later on’ stage. Let it run its course. It will find its limits like everything else does.
Should we also consider the cost of these machines in terms of energy used and natural resources wasted. Thinking electric to power water to cool not to mention the components and materials
That is a historically side issue.
Did we consider the cost or the environmental damage when we made the first nuclear bomb? No, we only caught up with that afterwards.
That seems to be the pattern, if you look at history.
The Sumerians irrigated from the Tigris or Euphrates river ( I forget which). The salinjty problems came later.
The Romans invaded North Africa and farmed it to feed their Empire. It is now desert.
The Pommies colonized Australia and thought it was a good idea to introduce foxes and cats. We now have native marsupials threatdned with extinction or already extinct.
Not really, just take the water situation, most of Europe is short of water and on hosepipe bans, the water table is greatly reduced… the last report I read said that data centres use more water than a town, just for cooling. Water waste
I am not saying it is good. I am observing that historical evidence suggests that we will do bad things without giving a thought to the consequences.
Australia has a worse water shortage than Europe.
There are alternatives to water cooling.
Sydney has a backup desalination plant. It was used a few years ago during a long drought. They are expensive and long periods of inactivity are wasteful.