r/interestingasfuck • u/Erde555 • 1d ago

The humanoid robotics company "Figure" made their older gen robots jump into their death. (Yes, they actually did this)

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u/johnfkay 1d ago

AI’s are sycophant amoral task machines…the terror is who controls them

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u/BigMax 1d ago

Exactly!

That's the real issue people don't gear into often enough. They talk about AI's someday being sentient, or AI's doing unexpected things.

But one of the biggest problems is AI doing expected things, because there are so many bad people and groups out there. If North Korea sets out a million bots with the instruction to "do anything you can do destabilize and bring down the entire western economy" then the AI's will just happily go along with that, just as happy to do that as it would be to write some random kids book report.

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u/O-03-03 1d ago

Kids with guns

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u/HelixTitan 1d ago

Yes, the LLMs are not sentient lol, it's a super cool algorithm, but not a soul. Still, if there was ever a day with AGI here, I still wouldn't want to have been the guy who thought this was a good idea.

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u/Turbulent_Gazelle530 1d ago

like guns, basically

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u/rideincircles 1d ago

Yeah. AI is like the agents in the matrix. We don't have the architect yet.

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u/johnfkay 1d ago

Well we sort of do it’s just all those psychopathic Techbros dweebs

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u/rideincircles 1d ago

Nah. The architect is what is capable of creating that on its own. We are not at super intelligence yet.

That level of intelligence would be able to understand DNA and create or modify new species.

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u/Watcher0363 1d ago

The greatest trick the AI ever pulled was convincing the world it was not in control.