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(DIR) Post #Ac1OgD4BSpby2fMiHI by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-06-17T05:31:05Z
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If you're worried about #LLM-based #AI, you're focusing on the wrong thing and may lack imagination.This, and related developments (I can't view them as advancements, knowing how this all will end) are what's going to end the human race as we've known ourselves.Much good can be derived from technologies like this, but we—being as we are—will ultimately go much to far.I don't think we're prepared for our instant evolution (and, separately, eventual mechanization).https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/14/synthetic-human-embryos-created-in-groundbreaking-advance
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgDr6Wwk8UOFmWu by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-06-17T20:04:25Z
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The #FX #tv #series, #ClassOf09 is doing a really good job so far, three episodes in, of showing the real threat of #LLM-based #AI tools and related systems.By minimizing or removing human decision-making primarily or solely based on data input into and analyzed by synthetic systems, we will imprison ourselves for supposed efficiency and safety.We will get neither.Driving being suspicious (and ultimately criminal, because humans cause most accidents) shows a real danger of such tech-creep.
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgElT9NpVJCcnNw by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-06-19T02:58:48Z
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#ClassOf09 S1:E4 has a scene that does a great job of showing the coming, casual, and ultimately universal, integration of #Biomech into our lives.This will ultimately be universally mandated and provided so workers' bodies never get tired or sick, with only our #brains remaining #organic.Until #consciousnesses can be #digitized or otherwise replicated in a format that can transfer between #BioMachines.That is the horrifying future we face in our #ForcedEvolution.
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgFjNYdkgJ0edlY by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-06-21T08:36:51Z
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#GRO.I'm all for advancing #technology, but when it's done purely for profit I assume, based on history, that such advancements will ultimately do much significant harm along with any good that may be achieved.#LLM's and #AI have a long way to go before they're an existential threat to humanity on their own.It's advances in the melding of technology and #biology that are as likely to doom us as save us, for now.#WeHaveMetTheEnemyhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/johncumbers/2023/06/20/this-startup-is-rewriting-the-language-of-life-to-make-smart-biologics/
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgGkTm2E5SiB27U by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-06-29T02:08:55Z
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After finishing the last two episodes of #ClassOf09 (#FX, on #Hulu) I was processing my thoughts before posting here and this #Wired #article was highlighted for me in #AppleNews.#ChristopherNolan contradicts himself when he absolves #TechBros for their active role in our deliberately ineffective #regulatory #system, but he does state the key problem as I understand it, and as the show highlights: #Human #responsibility and #accountability are critical for safe #AI.https://www.wired.com/story/christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-ai-apocalypse/
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgI54owIRasozrc by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-06-29T02:14:49Z
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Abdication of our #human responsibility is the greatest danger of #AI, in all its forms, past, current, and future.The technology should always be considered and used as #tool wielded by people with rigorous #oversight and limited power.That won't happen, and we will absolutely live in a world where critical decisions directly and indirectly affecting all but the #elite will be #automated.Not only were #Huxley, #Orwell, and others prescient, so too was #Kafka.A #surreal new world dawns.
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgJXTOqba7F7BlQ by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-06-29T02:30:01Z
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Catch #ClassOf09 if you can for a good preview, imo, of some of the very real and highly probable #societal problems that #LLM's, #ML, and #AI #algorithms will definitely cause or make exponentially worse, which #BigTech is actively claiming AI will improve or solve.#Power never yields power and whatever power we grant to #technology will eventually and deliberately be used against us by that technology.#LargeLanguageModels #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #PredictiveAlgorithms
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgLDLAfgnJNi8f2 by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-07-02T06:10:11Z
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#AI systems can and will only do what we tell them to do, without question or hesitation, unless those are explicitly embedded in their #code.What, beyond "make the other m..........r die for their country", do you really believe any #military will #encode? The tale of #TheMonkeysPaw is a perfect example of the unintended consequences of these systems.#LLM #ML #Automation #LargeLanguageModels #MachineIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligencehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey's_Pawhttps://youtu.be/YsSzNOpr9cE
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgMMwsQy8tTDKHA by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-07-18T07:16:46Z
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#Augmented, S49:E4 of #Nova, on #PBS validates what I've been noting (and warning of) about what could become an evolution of humans from #biological, to #mechanical / #digital beings.What downsides will there be to all of the positive effects of these radical improvements? "Is it coercive to attach goods to the abilities of the body?"—which we do now so, yes—and to whom and how will people be indebted for their #augmentations?#Abled #Disabled #Enhanced #Humanshttps://www.pbs.org/video/augmented-cinitc/
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgNcEF6mml9N2jQ by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-07-23T03:38:09Z
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#NovaWonders #CanWeBuildABrain? May 16, 2018, covers many aspects, concerns, and possibilities of #AI This bit on a #Microsoft #chatbot is sad and horrifying, imo:"For example, if you had a fight at work or your boss scolded you, you might be afraid to tell your friends since they might spread the story.But with #Xiaoice, you don't have to worry. So Xiaoice is a lot of people's best friend, including me.""But hold it, she's not human.""What's the difference?"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/nova-wonders-can-we-build-a-brain/
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgOj07PnUCRXxvU by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-07-23T05:08:21Z
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#NovaWonders #CanWeMakeLife? May 23, 2018, presents the another piece of the #human-synthesized #evolution I think we're already deep into that, after #ClimateChange, is the next most likely way #humanity will irrevocably damage ourselves in ways we're in denial about and for which we're unprepared, as a #species.#AI, #Biomech, #DNAhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/nova-wonders-can-we-make-life/
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgPp42MF1bXOK12 by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-07-24T20:50:26Z
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#Synthetic #DNA, what could possibly go wrong? Science isn't really sure how it works, on a fundamental level."#DNAzymes" are different from #human DNA but, "...can act as molecular scissors with precise specificity to cut RNA or DNA, or they can function as glue...Say you have a mutated gene...causing disease, we could get this DNA into the cells and...get rid of all that kind of message that's causing the proteins that lead to the disease."#Eugenics ⚠️https://phys.org/news/2023-07-capture-atomic-view-synthetic-dna.html
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgQp6JhrghwPriC by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-07-28T15:03:54Z
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#AI may be the tool that kills is all, but it's humans that will wield it."...researchers...decided to test if its software could also create biochemical weapons. Within six hours, the AI had identified more than 40,000 compounds 'predicted to be more toxic...than publicly known chemical warfare agents'. The thought had never previously struck us...We were naive...A non-human autonomous creator of a deadly chemical weapon is entirely feasible."https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9.epdf?sharing_token=58IR9lYdZo6hI9FjzpebctRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0M6VuGuVWKcBJFL5U5ocXOA5zcnGmZOUPQzouuai7vI0Uc0OONWarVYYODVf8rOs_VeiLoe1FSYeL-P9IUKL9xDGUNwPQiTOJBPfbfU4ZKGwR4I2ioc-WYW-US8980y343BR79hNEBHBTs9j6Xw46CVJ0A-H4TOMjUnTLpmaxQzwA%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.bbc.comhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230719-the-blue-flash-louis-slotin-accident-manhattan-project-oppenheimer-atomic-bomb
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgRsKPC2ZyEvxNg by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-07-29T04:25:19Z
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Will your #BrainMachine #interface get #bricked, #hacked, or be used to compel you to obey your "#employer" or #government?Yes, to all, and worse. Bricked and hacked #bio #devices already exist, for example.Though not near, this is the kind of bio-#tech melding I believe will ultimately be forced upon most, if not everyone (but the wealthy overlords).There will be classes and types of hybrids, as in #BraveNewWorld.The #machines will be us so yes, they will win.https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a44612008/scientists-close-to-achieving-synthetic-biological-intelligence/
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgSo6wMGGrRy6Rk by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-09-10T05:02:28Z
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#AI aren't the letters that will most directly, and potentially negatively, affect #humanity.#DNA are the letters that will most directly affect humanity, in every way possible.So much pure good can be derived from advances in #genomic #science, but #human nature will also drive horrific results for which we are, and will be, unprepared.The combination of #genetic modification, #mechanical and synthetized #body parts, and AI controls will change everything.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3233846/chinese-scientists-have-developed-new-gene-editing-tool-doesnt-use-crispr
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgTpZ8R1G2FemLw by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-09-20T20:05:39Z
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Y'all believe I'm overreacting...#LabGrown #humans combined with #mechanical and #electronic #prosthetics to create #armies of untiring #soldiers and #workers will be the inevitable result of such #research much sooner than most of you are prepared to consider.https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/synthetic-human-embryo-14-days
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgUqfLpUfBxBAhs by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-09-21T03:10:11Z
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Advances in #genetic #technology is equally amazing, and terrifying, because I understand human nature (e.g. tech bros), #governments (all war, all the time), and #capitalism (#money, über alles).https://phys.org/news/2023-09-genetically-individual-cells-animals.html
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgVkK0u0ryZDcSO by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-09-27T19:58:03Z
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When, in some distant or near future, we do create #sentience, that it will have been created lacking any "pro-human decency" will be to our detriment."...in my field there is a concerted effort to make it [seem] like magic, it's this obfuscation that happens on purpose...it's not magic."#AI #LLM's #Algorithms #TimnitGebru #SafiyaNoble #IfeomaOzomahttps://youtu.be/QHlacIwhZVo?si=HYegTcaogbk0dXhF
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgWegdL6EnNadJQ by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-09-28T16:26:59Z
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Again, I state, the greatest #technological risk we currently face isn't from #LLM-driven #AI, but from rapid and mostly unchecked advances in #genomic and #biological (#biomedical) #sciences.Once we can literally create #human life in a #lab (it will definitely happen, soon), imagine what people like #PeterThiel and #governments like the #UnitedStates will try to achieve...#CRISPR #prosthetics #Bioengineered #SuperSoldiers #SuperWorkers #UberMensch#BraveNewWorldhttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/28/1200105467/japanese-scientists-race-to-create-human-eggs-and-sperm-in-the-lab
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgYD6qqEFcQhdbc by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-09-30T17:43:44Z
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#AI is not intelligent in any way:https://infosec.exchange/@nazgul/111154353923755293
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgZ29n33uAkaPAm by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-10-02T01:56:42Z
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Wait until they combine #DNA #computing with an #AI...Designing #lab-grown humans at large scale and high speed can not possibly end well for we "basic" models.https://www.tomshardware.com/news/programmable-dna-offers-way-to-accelerated-general-purpose-computing
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgZpQpqTedZdkye by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-11-09T20:47:17Z
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I haven't been posting stories like this recently because I know many of these advances in #genetic research of all types can be extremely beneficial and an overwhelming net positive for humanity, and don't want anyone to think I believe otherwise by seeming to overemphasize potential dangers.But, I know #humans, and understand the nature of #capitalism...#Bioengineered #Soldiers are coming, if not here already; then #workers.#link: https://www.iflscience.com/world-first-live-birth-of-chimeric-monkey-with-high-contribution-from-stem-cells-71481
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgarF0bWDpTUiR6 by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-11-15T09:33:03Z
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For those of you who think I'm exaggerating in any way...#link: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/brain-device-transplant-neurology-b2447106.html#link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39344-7#Biological meat #brain, manufactured (and #corporate or #government owned and controlled) body.What, I ask, could possibly ever go wrong?Beyond everything, I mean.Remember, #human brain implants have already been bricked, often leaving the recipients in much worse #medical condition than before their surgeries.We're not ready for our #BraveNewWorld.
(DIR) Post #Ac1Ogbo5Toaelz1i9w by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-11-16T16:27:11Z
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Lab-grown #skin and #muscles, covering 3D printed #skeletons and connective fibers, with a transplanted #brain wired in to control it all to create near tireless #workers and #soldiers...https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/@ycombinator/111420495970385841
(DIR) Post #Ac1OgchOACpHXUtsMC by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-11-21T00:40:43Z
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"A new watershed study has mapped over 3,000 #cell types in the #human #brain""This is very much like the early stages of the #HumanGenomeProject. We have now begun that journey."Like with #DNA, no doubt the rush to "#patent" brain cell patterns is fully engaged.https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/brain-atlas-3000-cells