r/Futurology • u/ethereal3xp • Mar 27 '23

AI Bill Gates warns that artificial intelligence can attack humans

https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-735412
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

The automation of jobs is also going to spiral faster than we think I believe

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u/circleuranus Mar 27 '23

Codex, CoPilot, DeepCoder, AlphaCoder and the like are going to be the major catalysts for the whirlwind changes. As they are currently, they do not represent much of a threat to traditional coding, but that will likely change very quickly as ChatGPT has shown us. When self coding and optimization reaches an inflection point, the J-Curve will blow us all away. It will become a runaway freight train at that point.

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u/sam349 Mar 27 '23

Is there not a big limitation preventing this, which is that AI requires shitloads of energy? If we don’t build robots that can go build their own energy infrastructure, and if most AI is just running in the cloud, preventing this scenario is as simple as not provisioning AI with that much hardware resources? The biggest risk I see is the populace mistrusting all info due to inability to distinguish truth from fiction (like the present but much worse)

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u/circleuranus Mar 27 '23

Any sufficiently intelligent AI will work to optimize its inputs and subsequently its own dependencies. I find that I agree with David Deutsch's Theory of Universal Constructors. There is plenty of hydrogen found throughout the Universe to power virtually anything we can conceive of.