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When you go to a McDonald's now and order at the drive-through, you are talking to their new AI ordering system. According to McDonald's, the AI understands a higher percentage of orders than the human employees that it replaced. (They have been assigned to other jobs inside the restaurant.)
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This depressing video outlines a few of the most frightening things that experts think could go wrong with AI.
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Here's a good listing of how much AI we use every day.
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Human language is highly metaphorical. When Model-T Fords began appearing on the roads, a word was needed to describe their power. People chose "horsepower" – because horses were how they got around. But that doesn't mean that a 300 HP engine is the same as a wagon pulled by 300 horses.
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Some examples. There already exist chemical and radiological treatments for cancer that would work extremely well if there was a way to deliver them to the tumors. Nanobots piloted by a cohort of AI agents could provide a straightforward way of delivering these medications.
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The two most obvious problems mentioned earlier: accidental damage caused by AI agents - and intentional damage caused by people using AI agents. Until the OpenAI event, no one knew that agents could work together in large "swarms". This fact will now be investigated, extended, and put to use.
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So, what happened? The first, and probably most important, thing to understand is that we have created a civilization that is completely dependent on computerized information and communication systems. We have built this civilization over the last 30 years without much regard to security.
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OpenAI generated 10,000 AI agents and gave each of them a task in order to generate a set of test data. Each agent worked solo and each was provided with a link to the target and access to some downloadable modules.
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This new post summarizes the information in the previous post on the OpenAI exploit in simple language in about five minutes. If you found the other ones too technical, this one is pretty easy to understand.
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I'm watching Bernie Sanders speak at a "pro human" event. He doesn't seem to connect AI to computers, and yet you can't have AI without a computer system to run it on. So Bernie needs to explain how we're going to get along without all of the electronics that we use every day.
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I just heard a media expert say that AI was going to be an issue in the election because of "data centers". But while we need to build more data centers IF we want more AI, current AI works fine with the centers we already have. This is just an example of how even the experts are confused.
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Two US politicians introduce the "Killswitch Act" - a proposal that would require all AI to have a button to turn it off. You can already turn off any computer program by simply pulling the plug on the computer. So here you have an example of a way to use the hype for political publicity.
@solextre.bsky.social#SCIX: The OpenAI Event
It is possible that the recent widely publicized AI "exploit" is a civilization-changing event on the level of the test of the first Atomic Bomb. It COULD be that big. It is certainly worth dropping everything else to talk about it. This post will try to explain the hype.
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A teenager writes an AI on her phone and transmits it to the computer at her school to tell the school's homework assignment program to shut down. The AI has errors, and these lead it to shut down the entire computer system at the school. The school is on a city-wide network. (And so it goes.)