US senator Bernie Sanders amplified his recent criticism of artificial intelligence on Sunday, explicitly linking the financial ambition of “the richest people in the world” to economic insecurity for millions of Americans – and calling for a potential moratorium on new datacenters.
Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with the Democratic party, said on CNN’s State of the Union that he was “fearful of a lot” when it came to AI. And the senator called it “the most consequential technology in the history of humanity” that will “transform” the US and the world in ways that had not been fully discussed.
“If there are no jobs and humans won’t be needed for most things, how do people get an income to feed their families, to get healthcare or to pay the rent?” Sanders said. “There’s not been one serious word of discussion in the Congress about that reality.”
People forget that a very short time ago, there was no internet and knowlege and fast communication was rare and slow.
Nothing in the last 500 years has changed our society so much, in such a short time.
AI has been around for decades now. The main recent breakthrough has been in its ability to immitate a human conversation. Untill a similar breakthough happens in its ability to reason and understand, it will continue to stagnate.
Right now AI development needs the current bubble to pop before significant progress can be made.
I sincerely believe that our advancement in technology has outpaced our evolution and we are simply not equipped to wield it yet.
Its certainly apparrent in how much our brains are struggeling to process the level of information we have access to.
You can see that in many areas of society, people have given up on facts based reasoning and are simply following “vibes” in their decision making that is a lot “cheaper” on the brain.
The thing is that technology is not linear.
That could happen tomorrow.
It might never happen.
It likely isn’t going to happen with LLMs but the next big breakthrough could happen at any time. Or never.
I very respectfully but firmly disagree.
Human progression isn’t just advancing, it’s accelerating. If you were born in 1700 and died in 1775, basically everything at the time of your death was identical to the time of your birth.
If you were born in 1900 and died in 1975, you were born to horse-drawn carriages and died after seeing a man walk on the moon.
Now, even though our “AI” isn’t real AI and just language models, it can still crunch numbers historically faster. So the acceleration is objectively going to accelerate.
I sincerely don’t understand how anything you wrote with disagrees with my comment about technological advancement not being linear.
Fair point, sorry - I didn’t word it well. My bad.
You seem to think something bad might happen, I think that stone is already moving and can’t be stopped.
It might or it might not.
I agree that it will likely will given the insane progression in ai models of every kind and the absurd amount of money being invested into it, but it’s not a certainty.
LLMs are likely a dead end but anyone that thinks the buck stops there is an idiot.
I’d have to disagree that LLM are a dead end. They aren’t actual AI, but they can crunch data at a rate that will make them a bridge to actual AI. I guess I see this is a very dangerous and inevitable stepping-stone.
LLM will be able to crunch raw numbers to make actual AI possible IMHO.
You keep saying number crunching - gpus “crunch numbers” cpus “crunch numbers” ai models ARE numbers.
Are you denying that it can be done faster now? And that even if it can’t, people with money believe it can and are funding it?
This is moving fast my dude. Look at how fast a term from Terminator made it into our daily lives.
You also need it to pop so the billionaires who want to gatekeep and control the future of AI (in order to make sure their names are attached to that future) can be knocked off the fucking pedestal they keep trying to place themselves on. They suck and they’re making everything else suck too.
Imagine how much weirder and shittier the U.S. would currently be if only Steve Jobs and a handful of out of touch billionaires had been given this much fucking control of all future technology in the 80s.
As if attaching yourself to something successful before anyone else did a long fucking time ago, then gives you some kind of lifetime special status allowing you to decide what’s best for all of humanity. Like it’s only reasonable you be allowed to ignore whatever regulations you want while using your power to enforce other regulations that protect your monopoly. You’re not being a self centered prick, you’re “saving humanity from stagnation,” while somehow being completely oblivious you and your mediocre state protected monopolies are the fucking stagnation that is plaguing society and fucking decimating hundreds of years of progress as fast as you possibly can.