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by vbezhenar 1180 days ago
As long as AI is available to general public, I can guarantee you that there are hundreds of developers trying to let GPT to take over the world by providing it all the APIs it asks for.

I'd work on it myself if I would knew enough about it and would have enough free time.

Asking millions of humans to be responsible is asking water to be dry.

It should either be regulated to hell or we should accept that it'll escape if it's even possible with current technology.
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mrfinn 1180 days ago
Regulations simply don't work whenever there's economical (human) interest. (See: Drugs). The cat is out of the bag, we just have to think how we face the new scenario.
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roflyear 1180 days ago
Should we regulate everything you don't "[know] enough about it and would have enough free time. [to learn about it?]"

Isn't it silly to jump to these conclusions when yourself are admitting you really don't know anything about the tech?

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visarga 1180 days ago
No, it's a legit concern. Both things will happen - there will be abuses, and there will be good uses. It will be a complicated mess, like viruses interacting with anti-viruses, continuous war. My hope is on AGI learning to balance out as many interacting agents.
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roflyear 1180 days ago
Sure there will be abuses, but not in this way, I don't think. GPT at this point isn't capable of creating novel computer viruses.

If you want to scrape random websites and have GPT hammer at them for old vulnerabilities, I think you could get that to work, but to what gain? You'd be spending a crap ton of cash on API requests and compute, and people do this without GPT obviously. Cost is probably not worth it here for attackers.

Then, I'd hope OpenAI would have some way to detect this and shut these people down. I doubt they do right now, but that'd be my hope ...

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vbezhenar 1180 days ago
We should regulate everything which could cause a mass havoc. Like some chemicals, like radio-active isotopes, like nuclear research, like creating viruses.

Is AI in the same category? Some respectable people think so.

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chasd00 1180 days ago
“Regulation” is pointless here. It’s bits and bytes, it makes about as much sense as when regulating encryption algorithms was attempted.
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