Yes, that is what "fi" means. Fiction often introduces and explores ideas about the future. Ideas.
> LLMs are a useful technology. They have no relation to AI terminator bots
Technology that can communicate with human language. Also relevant, other SOTA models operating in other modalities.
The important thing if you reference SciFi, are the major ideas that stand on their own merits. Whereas, specific characters, such as terminators, are usually not predictive.
You are actually underlining my point. The disconnect a lot of people are struggling with is real.
People aren't struggling with a disconnect, they just aren't buying into the hand-waving hype.
Not everyone is convinced that LLMs are somehow going to lead to the extinction of humanity. So far, you've done very little argumentation here, so I remain pretty unconvinced.
The actual dangers from LLMs are many, but deal more with humanity's using them and neglecting to think for themselves, relying on them to make decisions, and so on – not some fantastical nonsense from reading too many sci-fi books.
You keep saying LLMs. Nobody is making predictions that today's version of tech is the future's version of tech.
Not sure what you mean by "hand waving" or "fantastical nonsense". Maybe just address points I actually make.
1. Machines with greater cognitive ability than us, potentially much greater, would be an economic challenge for human beings. With no clear answer as to how humans could manage that challenge.
At a minimum, those are sensible questions for rational beings creating smarter tech to consider, no?
2. Machines are getting more capable, year-to-year, faster than any human can or ever will improve. With no signs of slowing, in compounding capabilities.
This is incontrovertible.
None of this is new. The compounding in capabilities, for automated computing, has increased steadily since the first transistors less than a century ago.
Now it is approaching a threshold that is significant to us.
Explain your perspective, I am genuinely interested.
Yes, that is what "fi" means. Fiction often introduces and explores ideas about the future. Ideas.
> LLMs are a useful technology. They have no relation to AI terminator bots
Technology that can communicate with human language. Also relevant, other SOTA models operating in other modalities.
The important thing if you reference SciFi, are the major ideas that stand on their own merits. Whereas, specific characters, such as terminators, are usually not predictive.
You are actually underlining my point. The disconnect a lot of people are struggling with is real.