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Exelbirth t1_jdsggp7 wrote

People were recently fooled by fakes of Trump being arrested (though, I think that was AI generated rather than deepfake) and I've seen a deepfake of Joe Rogan endorsing something that is just shy of convincing (the cadence and tone were both off enough that you could tell). We're there, the question is how many people are fooled rather than are people fooled.

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amirjanyan t1_jdsfvr0 wrote

At the end of the day the AI we have is merely a bunch of completely deterministic matrix multiplications. If you decide that some of this multiplications are equivalent to torturing, you can save the state of ai before the "torture", and then reload it, which will be equivalent of time travel.

There is absolutely no sane way to define rights for ai in general, you can do it only for a physical system.

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izumi3682 OP t1_jds8ep6 wrote

I think in this case it is more about taking the blue pill and just ignoring it and hoping that life continues "business as usual" as it has for the last 6,000 years of recorded human history. But the trouble is, that there is no option for ignoring it. There is only the "red pill" of nearly incredible and unbelievable truth.

The last "technological singularity" (TS) occurred about 4 million years ago when a form of primate that could not think in abstract terms gave rise to a primate that could. The primate that could think in abstract terms would have been utterly incomprehensible to the primate that came before. And that TS took about 2 million years to unfold.

There has never been a TS in human recorded history. The closest we have come has been what we term as "soft singularities". Technological events that utterly change the course of human history but are easily comprehensible to the humans that came before a given "soft" singularity. Control of fire, farming, population centers, metallurgy, militaries, trade/economies, faith/religion, science/science derived technology and so on and so forth up to radio, television, computers, the internet and now all of these novel AIs...

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