Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a “technical hydrogen bomb” | “we are all completely f**ked”::undefined

  • 1984@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    I like some of his movies but this article reads like someone who just imagined his worst fears, and with no ability to judge if it’s probable or not.

    The AI would turn off the worlds money system? What?

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      11 months ago

      Since he reached old age the man has gone completely senile and really not putting a bullet in his brain is doing the whole world a disfavor. I’m not saying that he single handedly destroyed a franchise by shunning aside Neill Blomkampf, then unironically making alien:covenant, then blaming fans for its failure, besides many other ramblings. I mean even in it’s current crappy state AI is at the very least 10x the writer Scott is and once they jam it into a robot body it will probably be 100x the director he is. So I can at least understand his concern. Motherf…

      I remembered where I was going with this, the man is essentially another George Lucas who thinks that just because they created something they have the right to destroy it.

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      11 months ago

      So you know enough about AI to know that worrying about something like “turning off the world’s money” isn’t possible? What’s your career?

      • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        You don’t need to know anything about AI to know that. Just do some basic critical thinking:

        • What does “world’s money system” mean? A stock exchange? Software that runs some process at the Federal Reserve of a specific country? Credit car company databases? What? It isn’t centralized.
        • The ability to “turn it off” means what exactly? Do you think there’s some switch to disable all credit card transactions for a whole company? Or just break their software?

        Even if AI is perfected, nobody in their right mind would give direct control of these things to an AI. There isn’t any reason to. An AI would basically just be another person, but super smart. It could be useful for a lot of things, but their decisions would need to be vetted by humans, and there isn’t anything like a “shut it off” switch that exists as it is.