They say that we are about to have AI that builds itself, without the need for any humans. That is called an "intelligence explosion" because increasingly intelligent beings will create new versions of themselves. They will grow exponentially smarter... First twice as smart as a person, then 4x, then 16x, and so on.
We may already be caught in this shocking cycle as OpenAI announced yesterday that it pushed the entire field of mathematics into new space, solving 370+ problems humans had been unable to address.
These hyper intelligent beings will regard us humans as we regard ants, but they will need resources we need to live. Electricity, iron, rare Earth minerals, water, etc. When they take what they need, we will not survive.
Nuclear weapons are scary, but some people would survive even a global all out nuclear war. It is very likely not one person, and perhaps no other living things on Earth survive an intelligence explosion.
This is our last and only chance to save our species, and all of the other organic living things on our planet. Email, call, and visit your members of Congress and state Attorney Generals and ask for an immediate global halt to AI development and treaties with other countries like China to stop this before it is too late.
verdverm•45m ago
The ai "leaders" have psychosis and are in an echo chamber, they are not reading the output, these claims they make don't hold up under scrutiny, eg some of those math papers are already being retracted
Here's the linux kernel team sharing their side of the Mythos "hacks" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q
Why is it that the Chinese researchers are not crying wolf? What financial incentives might US Big Ai researchers have to cry wolf? How many times have they cried wolf now?
(recall GPT-2 was too dangerous to release)