My thought as well. Nuclear weapons are also horrifying.
And with LLMs, it's difficult to prevent the proliferation to bad actors.
It seems like we're racing towards a world of fakery where nothing can be believed, even when wielded by good actors. I really hope LLMs can actually add value at a significant level.
> It seems like we're racing towards a world of fakery where nothing can be believed
Spend a couple minutes on social media and it is clear we are already there. The fakes are getting better, and even real videos are routinely called out as fake.
The best that I can hope for is that we all gain a healthy dose of skepticism and appreciate that everything we see could be fake. I don't love the idea of having to distrust everything I see, but at this point it seems like the least bad option.
But I worry that what we will experience will actually be somewhat worse. A sufficiently large number of people, even knowing about AI fakery, will still uncritically believe what they read and see.
Maybe I am being too cynical this morning. But it is hard to look at the state of our society today and not feel a little bleak.
"artificial intelligence recursively improving itself until we become subservient to it."
Hmm, the cultural zeitgeist is about LLMs.
Are LLMs improving anything (in the sense of optimization)? I think LLMs are enabling us to automate tasks which are tedious and don't really add value (eg, compliance tasks). And they are helping us create art, content, and ads. I'm not aware of LLMs optimizing systems, let alone themselves. But I'm not very tuned in to all the applications.
That's fantastic. It used to be you had to restart the whole PC after a driver update.
If someone could do this for the Web Browser, I could see that potentially being a strong enough feature for users to switch from say Chrome to Firefox. "Never need to close your tabs with In Place Updates."
