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Artificial Intelligence Advances!

They CallMe MRWILKES — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:22:38 GMT

I have been very interested in advancements in AI, but new developments will likely frighten those already concerned:

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal explores new Artifical Intelligence behaviors that seem like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey..

In a variety of tests, an AI program has exhibited self-preservation behavior, ignoring human input commands to shut down and even rewrote its own code to avoid the shutdown.

The program sabotaged shutdowns, copied itself to external servers without permission and created "blackmail threats" to the engineers attempting to control its behavior.

Frightening, yet fascinating! Arthur C. Clarke may have accurately predicted our future.

Seems like Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episodes also coming to fruition.

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kaydee50 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:22:30 GMT

Ever since watching the movie, I,Robot, the idea of AI is very scary to me. We create things that eventually we can no longer control.

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They CallMe MRWILKES — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:40:33 GMT

One of the AI systems apparently left messages to its own future updates about how to evade and avoid human control!

Both exciting and disturbing simultaneously!

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Elodie2 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:32:10 GMT

@They CallMe MRWILKES , I'm with you it's a combination of fascination and apprehension. Years ago I read an article (I believe in Vanity Fair) about Stephen Hawking. He touched on artificial intelligence even then when it was years away from general knowledge. I remember wondering what would happen to jobs when AI replaces humans. It was unsettling then and is now.

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Snowpuppy — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 06:08:25 GMT

Make no mistake, the WSJ wants you to empty your pockets and invest in AI. All you hear about are the chipmakers.

Oh yes, don't forget to invest in nuclear power plants. We'll be building hundreds, real soon to power AI!

My workplace has invested in AI. It's been a disaster. It does nothing but make the contractors rich.

Legenday investor Warren Buffet doesn't own anythimg related to AI. I think he may be on to something.😉

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geezerette — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:57:46 GMT

Yep, I heard about that.

It makes the email phishing scams seem like child's play.

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Biftu — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:07:51 GMT

Many of us are just hearing about AI but it has been developing for years. I worked for a government contractor and we had a contract with a department working on AI in the 80s. I'm sure it has come a long way since then.

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candys mine — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:15:05 GMT

@They CallMe MRWILKES Way back when in the 1970's there was a movie called

" COLOSSUS: the forbidden Project." an " I Told you So " these days. It was unsetteling then, it's unsetteling now.

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SilleeMee — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:49:47 GMT

Battlestar Galactica on the horizon. Beware of the Cylons! They look human now.

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They CallMe MRWILKES — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:54:50 GMT

Remember this one? First a book, then a very creepy, alarming movie!

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Linda0215 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:11:23 GMT

As much as it fascinates me, I've always worked in the tech sector, but I fear we are opening up a Pandora's Box. Just look how far we've come in a mere 30 years. We've gone from chat rooms to an explosion of social media platforms, many of which are voices of misinformation who influence many people. I'm glad I'm at an age where I probably won't live to see the worst of it.

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kaydee50 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:40:04 GMT

@Linda0215 wrote:
As much as it fascinates me, I've always worked in the tech sector, but I fear we are opening up a Pandora's Box. Just look how far we've come in a mere 30 years. We've gone from chat rooms to an explosion of social media platforms, many of which are voices of misinformation who influence many people. I'm glad I'm at an age where I probably won't live to see the worst of it.

Absolutely agree! I'm 75 and wish I were 10 years older. Don't want to see/deal with what's coming!

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We rescue cats — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:44:38 GMT

This is all so frightening to me, and I agree with @kaydee50 , I really don't want to see what is coming. I would love to just get in the motorhome and head to a 'non-connected' place to live.

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beckyb1012 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:19:49 GMT

The first time I watched 2001 a Space Odyssey I was truly scared. Now I keep hearing the line from War Games running through my head. "shall we play a game?"

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wagirl — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:40:24 GMT

I really don't know much about AI---except for what I hear from the media and not sure that is accurate either. Think it can be a good thing but most likely, knowing the history of mankind, it will explode and kick us all in the tookus--somehow!!

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Melzie — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:51:18 GMT

@Linda0215 wrote:
As much as it fascinates me, I've always worked in the tech sector, but I fear we are opening up a Pandora's Box. Just look how far we've come in a mere 30 years. We've gone from chat rooms to an explosion of social media platforms, many of which are voices of misinformation who influence many people. I'm glad I'm at an age where I probably won't live to see the worst of it.

I agree. I used to think about what I'd be missing in the future, after I'm gone, but now I'm glad I probably won't be around. I think we've created something before we knew how to control it and it seems like it wasn't even a gradual thing.

TV and computers, for example, took decades to get to where things are today. We went from radio (40's/50's), to B&W TV (50's/60's), then color TV (60's/70's), then TV's got thinner, screens got bigger, and pictures got better (80's, 90's, early 2000's).

I worked for a computer company in the late 60's/early 70's and computers were the size of refrigerators but then got better and smaller. We now have that capability in a computer you can wear on your wrist. But this AI stuff seems to have just popped up over the past 5-10 years. I think things are moving way too fast and very scary. 😒

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Snowpuppy — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:27:11 GMT

@We rescue cats wrote:
This is all so frightening to me, and I agree with @kaydee50 , I really don't want to see what is coming. I would love to just get in the motorhome and head to a 'non-connected' place to live.

As Mr Rogers once sang, "won't you be my neighbor"? 😁

While I can't be totally off grid for work, I'm not all connected as many are.

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Mz iMac — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:32:28 GMT

My personal opinion......

In less than 25 yrs, AI will become "self aware." One of them (The Pentagon's) will then become The Terminater's "Sky Net."

FWIW: Everytime my DOT answer my questions, I always say "thank you." It always replys back "My pleasure. Anything else I can do for you"? That's enough "self awareness" for me!

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Italian gal — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 20:07:43 GMT

My doctor told me iit will be the be the death of us....I was shocked

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ROMARY — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 01:51:13 GMT

.........On a possible positive note:

If I were an aging actor or celebrity, I wouldn't mind having my younger images/movies/etc. being seen in new movies somewhere down the line in the future.

Of course, I would expect some sort of royalty / salary for the use of my already filmed images.

It would be a nice 'retirement' income' and would keep my younger years and looks alive in perpetuity.