@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ hi. Thanks for the follow :)
Just to let you know, I think we have very different perspectives on LLMs
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@urlyman Probably. I am a proponent of AI/LLMs. I don't think we have the luxury of denying and turning our eyes away from them. So, I believe we need to be #AdultsInTheRoom. The true problem is that we have to prevent the wealthy and oligarchs from controlling them. Competition from foreign sources is, as far as I can tell, our only hope. I have worked with them since the 90s. I left corporate America because funding for my AI project was pulled--saying AI would not amount to anything.
@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ I don’t deny that focused, well-designed machine learning has utility, but I see the broad bundle of ‘AI’ as an accelerant on a culture of acceleration in an era of out-of-control overshoot.
I don’t see any prospect of that working out well. Nor of it not continuing to help funnel wealth to the already obscenely wealthy/powerful.
Ironically, this might help bring forward the scale of crash out of which course correction becomes possible. But not by design
@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ …I do recognise that it has become an obligate technology which has to run its course in an economic system of extraction and fear-fuelled domination.
I want to be as small a part of that as I can
@urlyman Mankind has experienced this kind of transformative technology in the past. I will say, that the #ImplicitPrivilege that wealth has provided exclusively to the elite classes is about to be challenged because of AI/LLMs.
@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ the context is unprecedented. If we ignore the context, and we certainly are doing that, the transformation will be rampant destruction of people and place and what’s left of the non-human world. AI is part of the ignoring
@urlyman That's if one takes a strictly #Dystopian view. I would argue that the invention of writing or any of these transformational technologies is and was equally unprecedented in context. As with any transformation and technology there are positives and negatives. I will guarantee that if we do not accept our new context someone else in the world will develop it and use it to their ends and not ours.
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I think you may be misconstruing what I regard as the context. Which is understandable as I was not explicit.
The context is rampant overshoot. Tech which cannot be metabolised by life and so its outputs are accumulating in our own bodies as well as the living creatures we are busy destroying, upon which we rely. Tech that is utterly reliant upon stable, predictable, controllable environments in an environment we are making more chaotic…
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That chaos that we have created is itself accelerating and is proving that our assessments of our own path are dangerously inadequate/wrong https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114947913968160990
Most of that tech has not been AI and so, for the most part, AI has not created that context. But it is the context in which AI sits and it is now actively accelerating that trajectory
@urlyman I hear and appreciate your concern about #Acceleration. I am not an accelerationist like #PeterThiel. I don't deny that tech and change is accelerating and creating conditions that have the potential to be damaging. Again, I am reminded of #FutureShock by #AlvinToffler It's an oldie but a goodie. Here is the youtube link. #WeCantGoBack#WeHaveToGoForward#WeHaveToGrowUp and be adult. https://youtu.be/fkUwXenBokU
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