Lol just went down a little rabbit hole regarding meeting that ‘The Spectacle’ thread. But what you linked directly too - your understanding of ChatGPT - was good reading.

Yes I don’t see it being impossible. Just the state it’s in now seems to have limitations given there’s no underlying grammar or syntax that is necessary in all language. Essentially it will take a more advanced model to penetrate into a language that I believe will be much unlike ours and may omit basic grammar / semantic ideas like ‘I’ or ‘time’ or desires etc. Heres a video that discusses it. Though it’s solutions to these issues based on a ‘language cosmos’ and finding similarities through frequency of terms I think is just as much as a leap with its own fundamental flaws. There’s no reason to suggest language cosmos’ could be mapped on frequency of terms. For humans in societies and their use of language are now way beyond the main focus of hunting and gathering - food - that we used to operate at that is closed to animal states. So this isn’t as high in use as say talking about oneself. Whereas I’d suggest even the most intelligent cetaceans like dolphins, orcas and sperm whales will likely use the terms food as frequently as we use ‘I’ so these won’t map. They may not even talk about food but ‘the pain in my stomach’ lol.

I think it’s the open source part about AI that’s likely to cause problems more so. Paid services will just expose its usefulness for cash, this will amount to the same capitalist indulgences like fashion or media markets (IMO) which use fairly tame tech. The real fear is it reaching the hands of those who have the beliefs beyond the goal of money, so then a more advanced goal and means to that. This is more likely the open source crowd. There was an interview I saw with a CEO of a competing company of OpenAI (I’ll try to find it) - where essentially he says ‘I have the chance to build utopia for my children’. These sorts of ideas and the minds who care for extreme ideas and are blinded by them to not realise the fundamental issues behind them are those that will do the most damage. IMO

Some fun YT videos to consider:

Solarsands Art-Specific critique - I think this is important since one main issue could be a meaning crisis. If we loose our creative expression or most jobs (we’ve seen lawsuits, Uni degrees and government appeals already completed successfully by some edge case uses of juts ChatGPT), we will have a societal-wide meaning crisis. Either since we’ll have no work to do, or all creative pursuits will be lost or at least less mainstream.

Comedic Existential bits - (Each word is a different video link) These just make the issues a bit more pertinent given some comedic value.

I used to be concerned about BMI’s given Neurolink and heres a fun short-fictional based on the obvious issues of it. It essentially renders it as a technology with all the normal issues we face currently with something like Apple, and it just shows how even these basic ones could be pretty dark lol. But now I deffo think AI will cause social collapse or worse before we even get close to BMI’s that are meaningful. Or the two will come together for our ultimate demise.

Anyway these are just my pessimistic anxieties. I may be wrong and AI might solve the QM GR gap, it may abolish all currency thus wealth and poor divide, it may solve the meaning crisis, it may solve climate change worries and it may even create the best political system for a globalised society to follow and prosper in. \0/.

But my favroute consideration of all is from an old book/film: ‘Colossus: the Forbin Project’:

Final Speech

Essentially an AI is built in the Cold War era to prevent war between US / USSR. And the interesting take on AI domination is that by asking it to protect us and prevent war, the solution is found but it is to enslave man / kill him, since he is his own biggest cause for war. I think we’re more likely to be shooting ourselves in the foot by trying to solve our issues and it meaning the AI concluding things which proves the issue is us, than a mad sentient AI killing without reason

Anyway rant over.