@MrEwanMorrison: Coxon is a young sci-fi head with romantic AI delusions. Listen to him. "If you have a super advanced intelligence, it …
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The article criticizes Jacob Coxon's claims about AI extinction as unrealistic, comparing them to sci-fi fan fiction and arguing that they are media hype for an apocalypse myth.
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Coxon is a young sci-fi head with romantic AI delusions. Listen to him.
“If you have a super advanced intelligence, it could be smart enough to kill us…”
Super advanced intelligence does not exist. The company he worked for make apps and algorithms. Sentences with “could” repeated again and again are not statements of facts.
You could win the lottery tomorrow. You could get hit by a falling plane.
His basic theory is that rogue swarms of chatbots could go off to secretly earn money, and could then buy time in a biolab, where the could design and then could breed a new lethal virus that they could then get some other system to disseminate, that could kill us all.
This isn’t news. This is a fan fiction of a sci-fi movie.
This kid has taken the media for fools, because our culture was hungry for a new apocalypse myth.
Abu (@abuchanlife): Are some AI researchers starting to lose their minds over their own creation?
The more I hear Jacob Coxon explain AI extinction, the less convincing it gets.
His scenario:
AI copies itself 10,000 times. Blackmails humans. Buys its own compute. Takes over infrastructure. Runs
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