• UlyssesT [he/him]
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    6 days ago

    'AI is sentient actually' whistleblower had a religious background if I remember right, Ray Kurzweil says he just misses his dad and wants to recreate him through AI, there's a lot of spiritual/religious types that have these worship inclinations for AI

    https://futurism.com/openai-employees-say-firms-chief-scientist-has-been-making-strange-spiritual-claims

    • batsforpeace [any, any]
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      6 days ago

      The chief scientist even commissioned a wooden effigy to represent an "unaligned" AI that works against the interest of humanity, only to set it on fire.

      homelander-alright

      yeah that OpenAI coup attempt was the AI true believers trying to stage a power grab and kick out the profit-first guys, as can be expected MS will always back the profit-first guys

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        6 days ago

        the interest of humanity

        What part of humanity in particular? honk

        What part of humanity in particular?! cap-think honk-enraged