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by ACCount37 28 days ago
Less and less true with every new generation of AI systems.

AI gets better and better at operating self-supervised, and the amount of skill needed to supervise an AI in a useful fashion only ever goes up.
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bigstrat2003 28 days ago
That simply isn't true. LLMs are completely incapable of operating without supervision, same as they were 3 years ago.
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ACCount37 28 days ago
The scope and scale of the tasks LLMs can be trusted to do without supervision has increased massively in the meanwhile.

Of course, it will never be enough. The goalposts will move until we run out of them.

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array_key_first 28 days ago
I mean, what's the goal here? AI does everything and then... and then what? We all die? Most of us die except a select few who rule the world (which, by the way, would not include you or me)?

The reason we won't let AI run rampant is because it's anti-human. Even if AI can do everything, why would we allow it to? We don't have to do that, that's very much a choice.

We're at the point where we have humans advocating not only against other humans, but against themselves. If people are going to be out here arguing for self-destruction on the order of suicide, they might as well save us all the trouble and put a gun in their mouths. At least that way, humanity might have a few less pathetic losers who put computer programs before themselves.

Maybe that's harsh, but that's how I see it.

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ACCount37 27 days ago
The alternative is to let humans do everything. Think about what that entails.

I have seen enough human incompetence that AI incompetence is beginning to look quite favorable. AI performance, at least, goes up generation to generation. If you've ever faced minimum wage workers, you know that they are, at best, consistently the same level of awful.

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array_key_first 27 days ago
How is that the alternative? That's not even the reality 100 years ago, let alone today.
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ACCount37 26 days ago
Guess why. People did their damn best to replace human labor everywhere they could, as soon as the tech allowed for it. Because human labor sucked for everyone involved.
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zelphirkalt 27 days ago
If we move the goalposts along, how can we run out of them? No, I find your argument flawed, sir.

But if we move us faster than the goalposts, we can outrun them.

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