AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
Is all of this overly dramatic? A stuffy and reflexive resistance to exciting
innovation? Why expect the worse? Altman reassures us: “Nobody wants to destroy
the world.” Perhaps not. But as the ever-worsening climate and extinction
crises show us every day, plenty of powerful people and institutions seem to be
just fine knowing that they are helping to destroy the stability of the world’s
life-support systems, so long as they can keep making record profits that they
believe will protect them and their families from the worst effects. Altman,
like many creatures of Silicon Valley, is himself a prepper: back in 2016, he
boasted: “I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water,
gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land in Big Sur I
can fly to.”
I’m pretty sure those facts say a lot more about what Altman actually believes
about the future he is helping unleash than whatever flowery hallucinations he
is choosing to share in press interviews.
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