By "we", in this context, people are generally referring to Western Civilization as a whole, not just the USA. That being said, it IS the USA that's making all the major advances in AI right now, is it not?

Silicon Valley's values aren't aligned with mine and those of a great majority of the world population, I can say this.

Nobody serious is concerned about that, and focusing on it distracts from the actual issues.

You should see my other post. These are the contents:

I have a proposition that I call the "AI Lifeline Iniative"

If someone's job gets replaced with AI we would then provide them a portion of their previous salary as long as the company is alive.

For example:

Let's say Stacy makes $100,000 a year.

She gets replaced with AI. But instead of getting fired she gets a reduced salary down to let's say $35,000 a year. Now she can go home and not worry about returning to work but still get paid.

This would help our society transition into an AI based economy.

I always found it skeptical,in all sci fi movies set in the near future,it always started with in the year 202*,i thought that's not gonna happen,but here it is,using chat gpt is like magic.

Why should we debate a tweet when there’s a 4 hour podcast to discuss?

My humble opinion is there has never been a tweet worth discussing. Nothing typed to <240 characters can possibly give enough context to even consider discussing.

Are you saying crows aren’t intelligent because they’re intelligent as fuck

Oh, for sure. We're going to see job losses in every sector

another fine example of the continued decline of this subreddit.

Jesus Christ. His response to “what is your advice for someone in high school” was so, so sad.

Luddites anyone?

There isn't going to be another AI winter. I am almost certain that the US government has realised they are on the cusp of the first significant opportunity to fundamentally change the ratio of "work produced" per barrel of oil. I.e. we can spend the same amount of energy to get 10x 100x productivity.

There is no stopping this. That said - it doesn't mean you want to stop listening to the warnings.

I’ll take data any day!

Give it give it!

Where is your data showing humans are poorer now than a 100 years ago?

Probably not you mate

Could we not just hard code these models to constantly ask if they're behaving properly and doing what we want?

Perhaps we could have a democratic system we use to respond to those queries, to make sure they best represent us all.

"Animals can also see, hear, smell, touch etc. They have all those models too. But they don't have language, and thus can't share ideas, can't communicate at all, can only communicate in body language which is simply not enough."

The cetaceans of earth would like for you to issue an apology for your ignorance. Humans aren't the only species with language by far. Elephants, dolphins, whales all have language.

That’s why we need a lot of time to make sure it works

That's fair, I think there might be other jobs that are similar here or there, but I use it as a good example that I feel like could almost be replaced whole hog with just one new AI app

It's okay, if that's true, then a lot of trades will a) also be replaced in 10-15 years and b) will have so much competition any money you earn will not be worth the back breaking labor.

Llama just needs much more training and fine-tuning and it'll be good

But if it leaves, unless we go back to sticks and stones, we can make another one.

Yeah I wouldn't mind personally

I certainly believe it's impossible to guarantee it's aligned for sure, but it's probably very possible to make it aligned 99.99% of the time with smart techniques to align them

UBI is most definitely a solution. In the short term. Because you aren't going to jump from "everyone with a job!" to "no one has a job but it's okay because we have free stuff coz - AI". That's not going to happen overnight.

There is going to be a reasonably long and painful bit in between where people still have goddam mortgages to pay and investment of time and resources into assets that they own.

Depends what you mean by learn. A sufficiently advanced AI will be able to figure out how to upload data from any topic we want to be proficient in directly into our brain, and we immediately become able to have the skills we want, incl speak a language.