The Cloudflare outage this morning has all of the AI's down (at least ChatGPT and Claude).  Productivity in the US this morning is lower than on New Year's Day.

 kurtster wrote:

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose...
the crux of the matter, as it were...

Just had a moment where for whatever reason this thought about A I popped into my mind.

The earliest warning about our future with A I that I can remember came from Kubrick in 1968 ...
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"Open the pod bay doors, Hal,"
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"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" 

I was 15 back then.  Been thinking about it ever since.

ymmv ...

 rgio wrote:
Unlikely scenario.

The “AI 2027” Scenario: How realistic is it?
Everyone’s been talking about it. JD Vance read it. What does it actually tell us?

Some pretty sobering notions in this video.

It’s the machines man!  They’re toying with us.  They’re making us see things that aren’t really there. Thinking thoughts we never thought of before.
Then comes a day when they make us push a button and then Pooooof we’re gone.

I suggest we toke hard and distort them before it’s too late. 

Musk's Groomipaedia

every new technology has growing pains, trial and error
like every other science there will be challenges and break-throughs
the vast majority will use technology for good and there will be a few idiots that will abuse it
progress will eventually rule the day
pessimist archive is a reality check for the neo-luddite bed-wetting technophobes

AI doomerism isn’t new. Meet the original alarmist: Norbert Wiener

He warned that AI could lead to humanity's destruction decades before Geoffrey Hinton and Eliezer Yudkowsky began sounding the alarm.

Denmark Aims to Use Copyright Law to Protect People From Deepfakes

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs
At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

GIGO

The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy: How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last?
This paper argues that (i) we have reached “peak GenAI” in terms of current Large Language Models (LLMs); scaling (building more data centers and using more chips) will not take us further to the goal of “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI); returns are diminishing rapidly; (ii) the AI-LLM industry and the larger U.S. economy are experiencing a speculative bubble, which is about to burst.