Today's manmade horror: Bazingas on twitter are amazed that glorified chatbots like GPT-3 can produce readable text that is nominally about whatever topic you request. Say they just spent 20 minutes learning about physics. Say that this makes all existing forms of education obsolete. Say that teachers are no longer needed.
Directly below this someone else posted a prolonged dialogue where the GPT-3 bot calmly explained why a peregrine falcon is the worlds fastest marine mammal. When corrected it said that the sailfish is the fastest marine mammal, explaining that sailfish are warm blooded and have fur.
Bazingas think they can replace teachers (and everything else) with their half-baked machine learning systems because they're so ignorant and uneducated about anything outside their direct field of expertise that they don't actually know what any other disciplines do, or why they do what they do, or even how to evaluate when they're being fed bad knowledge.
Link for dunking.
I've recently come around to the idea that building an AI from scratch is really dumb when we've got billions of perfectly functional brains to screw around with. Like sure, building an AGI from first principles would be cool, but we could also give me an extra arm and I think that would be much cooler.
If bazinga billionaires finance an intelligence being constructed, they get to decide what constitutes "friendly" for that intelligence. No wonder so many bazinga AI fantasies involve digital waifus that either obey them with the utmost devotion or "go evil" and kill them, implying there's nothing else for a true artificial intelligence to think about except senpai. :pathetic:
I meant in the dystopian sense