Without paywall:
Couple things:
AI is the least efficient way to do literally anything. It’s just faster at a few very specific things.
AI does not lean toward quality. That is not a metric it can comprehend. It is not a pressure it can respond to. Predictably, its quality has and will always be horseshit.
Finally, who looks at Hitler and thinks the problem was poor optimization?
who looks at Hitler and thinks the problem was poor optimization?
Neo nazis in middle management
It says something about our current world that, having read the headline and not knowing who this guy is, I expected him to a booster of both AI and Nazism. It’s a relief to find he means this as a criticism.
For a moment I thought it was onion
The current landscape is the wet dream of nazis. It’s gonna be so efficient to dissapear people. They even put their own information online. Silly ones.
I don’t think it’s wrong to look at any technology and decide whether it’s worth perusing based on “how excited would hitler have been to use this”
Stuff like databases gets a pass, that’s just an essential thing. Stuff like AI and Flock obviously crosses the line into “could easily be used for genocide at scales never seen before”
I have not read the article yet. Just popped in to say the headline alone strikes dread in the very core of my soul.
Well, that’s not hard, Hitler was smashed 24-7 and he was demonstrably crazy
What a choice of words… 🤦 Deliberate? “Better”? How about “worse” instead?
I’d prefer someone worse at killing people
Stuart Russell: ‘What Hitler Did, AI Could Do Faster, Better and More Efficiently’
Depending on how much we integrate it into all our shit I fear it could also do it imperceptibly.
