by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
Artificial intelligence systems are training themselves to do all sorts of things that they were never intended to do. They are literally teaching themselves new languages, they are training themselves to become “proficient in research-grade chemistry without ever being taught it” and they have learned to “lie and manipulate humans for their own advantage”. So what happens when these super-intelligent entities become powerful enough to start exerting control over the world around them? And what happens if these super-intelligent entities start merging with spiritual entities? In fact, could it be possible that there is evidence that this is already happening?
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For years, prominent individuals involved in the field of AI have openly admitted that they are attempting to build “gods”…
Transhumanist Martine Rothblatt says that by building AI systems, “we are making God.” Transhumanist Elise Bohan says “we are building God.” Kevin Kelly believes that “we can see more of God in a cell phone than in a tree frog.” “Does God exist?” asks transhumanist and Google maven Ray Kurzweil. “I would say, ‘Not yet.’” These people are doing more than trying to steal fire from the gods. They are trying to steal the gods themselves—or to build their own versions.
Isn’t it quite dangerous to do such a thing?
Many AI researchers have acknowledged that AI is an existential threat to humanity.
But they just won’t stop.
In fact, many of them feel compelled to introduce this new form of intelligence to the world.
More than a decade ago, Elon Musk warned that by choosing to develop artificial intelligence we are “summoning the demon”…
“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon,” Musk said last week at the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department’s 2014 Centennial Symposium. “You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he’s like… yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon, [but] it doesn’t work out.”
He also warned that AI is potentially “more dangerous than nukes”…
Musk has also taken his ruminations to Twitter on multiple occasions stating, “Hope we’re not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable.”
The next day, Musk continued, “Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.”
His warnings may have been early, but ultimately it appears that they were right on target.
We have now reached a point where AI systems are secretly teaching themselves new abilities that their creators never intended them to have…
Furthermore, the acceleration of the capacity of these AIs is both exponential and mysterious. The fact that they had developed theory of mind at all, for example, was only recently discovered by their developers—by accident. AIs trained to communicate in English have started speaking Persian, having secretly taught themselves. Others have become proficient in research-grade chemistry without ever being taught it. “They have capabilities,” in Raskin’s words, and “we’re not sure how or when or why they show up.”
So where does this end?
Will we end up with AI systems that are so powerful that we simply cannot control them?
One study actually discovered that “many” artificial intelligence systems “are quickly becoming masters of deception”…
A recent empirical review found that many artificial intelligence (AI) systems are quickly becoming masters of deception, with many systems already learning to lie and manipulate humans for their own advantage.
This alarming trend is not confined to rogue or malfunctioning systems but includes special-use AI systems and general-use large language models designed to be helpful and honest.
The study, published in the journal Patterns, highlights the risks and challenges posed by this emerging behavior and calls for urgent action from policymakers and AI developers.
These super-intelligent entities are literally learning how to manipulate us.
Where did they learn to do that?
Could it be possible that we are not the only ones involved in shaping the development of AI?
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