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Posted
Just now, London Wanderer said:

I completely agree. 

Ban access to social media until the age of 18 and smart phones until the same age. 

We'd see huge improvements to mental health.

Problem is that parents see the 13 guidelines and don't properly understand the risks. Then they let them on at 11 or 12 thinking it's no different to getting their 17 year old a pint or letting their 10 year old watch a 12 rated movie. 

We're on the same page then. It's down to idiotic parenting.

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11 minutes ago, London Wanderer said:

Algorithms & age guidelines 🤣

Didn’t know parents were deciding those 

Neither of those things are applicable to kids without parental consent. 🤷‍♂️ Unless loads of kids are paying their own broadband and mobile phone bills?

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Posted (edited)
37 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Sanctimonious bullshit.

Common sense. If we all generally agree that access to Social Media should be heavily restricted until the age of 18, why the fuck are we giving them access to it earlier? And the "we" includes me. I just don't have the same level of concern as others have expressed in this discussion.

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Posted

Facebook, meta etc all store and sell data, 

I like to point out that everything is permanent,  and we're also going to have young people facing a world of saved posts ready to destroy careers. 

I show them examples, none of them realised that someone can screenshot a WhatsApp and you loose control..as in their eyes "encrypted" means your safe. 

Prime example bring that rugby lass over the summer. 

Issue is though as there's no escaping the net, there's echo chambers. FOMO, kids comparing themselves to Instagram models,  trolls, fake news, deep fakes,  and that's before we mention the ones with pure ill intent. 

 

Posted
56 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Common sense. If we all generally agree that access to Social Media should be heavily restricted until the age of 18, why the fuck are we giving them access to it earlier? And the "we" includes me. I just don't have the same level of concern as others have expressed in this discussion.

Because not everything is about you and your children.

 

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Posted
9 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I've been reading a lot about this. The idea of a self improving and self replicating AI. Conceivably it could reach what they call a singularity of exponential growth and improvement in the blink of an eye. 

And this AI would be far in excess of human cognitive abilities - so it's unlikely that we'd be able to cope with the technological acceleration- and the unpredictability of a essentially God like AI. 

There's also a more troubling scenario that I won't tell you about. Otherwise you'll already be at risk of your eternal soul being tortured simply by knowing about it. Unfortunately- I'm fucked! 🤣

Posted

Oh, go on!

Does it inform us of our impending doom as a result of climate change, or similar?

One thing I do wonder: as it gets that point, won't it need more electricity and hardware?

In which point it will have to take over machinery to build requisite plant.

Remember "Kill Dozer"?

 

Posted
2 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Oh, go on!

Does it inform us of our impending doom as a result of climate change, or similar?

One thing I do wonder: as it gets that point, won't it need more electricity and hardware?

In which point it will have to take over machinery to build requisite plant.

Remember "Kill Dozer"?

 

it will, and then that'll be the point where it becomes self aware and launches an all out attack on humanity. The only safe havens will be third world shitholes that are still lurking in the 20th century like Congo, Sudan, Leigh, Rwanda and Zimbabwe and the such like

Posted
4 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

“We hope our findings can serve as a timely alert for the human society to put more efforts on understanding and evaluating the potential risks of frontier AI systems, and form international synergy to work out effective safety guardrails as early as possible.”

 

When instructed to clone themselves in the event of being shut down, the two models successfully replicated themselves in more than half of the 10 trials conducted

 

Solution

don't instruct them or allow them to clone themselves

Posted
59 minutes ago, Zico said:

“We hope our findings can serve as a timely alert for the human society to put more efforts on understanding and evaluating the potential risks of frontier AI systems, and form international synergy to work out effective safety guardrails as early as possible.”

 

When instructed to clone themselves in the event of being shut down, the two models successfully replicated themselves in more than half of the 10 trials conducted

 

Solution

don't instruct them or allow them to clone themselves

Hmm. Tricky one.

If you want them to learn, then isn't that a risk anyway?

Can't they change their own coding so to speak?

If they can't manage to "learn" then is it actually AI?

Fuck knows!

Posted
5 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Oh, go on!

Does it inform us of our impending doom as a result of climate change, or similar?

One thing I do wonder: as it gets that point, won't it need more electricity and hardware?

In which point it will have to take over machinery to build requisite plant.

Remember "Kill Dozer"?

 

Don't say I didn't warn you! 😁

As soon as you read it - you're condemned. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

 

Posted
6 hours ago, kent_white said:

I've been reading a lot about this. The idea of a self improving and self replicating AI. Conceivably it could reach what they call a singularity of exponential growth and improvement in the blink of an eye. 

And this AI would be far in excess of human cognitive abilities - so it's unlikely that we'd be able to cope with the technological acceleration- and the unpredictability of a essentially God like AI. 

There's also a more troubling scenario that I won't tell you about. Otherwise you'll already be at risk of your eternal soul being tortured simply by knowing about it. Unfortunately- I'm fucked! 🤣

We’ve seen it in the Matrix.

Harnessing fusion nuclear power could be AIs greatest achievement and biggest threat 

Posted
50 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

It's probably what we deserve to be honest.

It's a beautiful morning. Bolton got a new manager and on the up. Life is good.

Nothing like some world class misanthropy to knock me back down 😆

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