LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

Open ai and anthropic are just trying to scare the common person who doesn't understand an agent is a python script with a loop. How would that ever destroy humanity lol, just unplug the computer if it starts misbehaving.

It's not going to wipe out humanity, why would it?

Just the quality of life is going to drop to zero for everyone that isn't asymptotically wealthy and vacuuming up all the assets because no one is stopping them from just deleting all traditions and conventions and legal systems we have in place.

It’s all stochastic parroting to him.

I am starting to think this LeCun dude knows what he is talking about.

Maybe there is something to those world models.

As good as their products are, I suspect some of the internal conversations at Anthropic would be very entertaining to listen to.

Didn't Zuckerberg say something like it's insulting people would dare to believe AI could destroy the world? I'm paraphrasing him wrongly but he got defensive over it

Zuck - along with your "Andrew Jackson best POTUS and it's not even close" - you are a dumb pipe. Your website, Facebook, if not a protocol, should behave like one (and not random bans while you report something horrible and it never gets taken down). We don't use We-Approve-Of-Zuckerberg product, we use These-Are-Where-Our-Friends-Are product. In other words: shut the fuck up and be more responsible

I don't know if AI will wipe out humanity, I think it'll definitely get into the hands of people who will do the job for it, but it's not like it's not a question to take seriously?

ctrl-f spacial

hn, never change

I would love to see everyone post their jobs or who they are associated with in their posts.

AI is going to kill us? Really? Just pull the power plug. We can get AI to ask us to validate every step it takes, but we cant stop it from wiping out humans?

This thread is proof that 20 something tech bros have no idea how to solve simple problems and just follow what silicon valley bros tell them.

If most people in this thread who fear AI had any understanding of software development and what these AIs are, they would see right through the BS.

Who is going run the power plants the run AI? Who is going to pull the gas and fossil fuels out of the ground?

Utter nonsense. Our industry is full of amateurs. Its these amateurs that are going to cause humanity to die because they watch a tiktok video and follow their silicon valley idols rather than think for themselves.

Again, sudo kill -9 pid and you AI is dead.

Then again the amateur tech bros in this thread probably dont even know what kill -9 even does

He needs to dream a little bigger darling. Hes not thinking evil enough.

Please explain exactly how all humanity could be wiped out.

It's ridiculous - anyone who thinks about it for a minute or two will realize that its utterly impossible.

Ordinary people/politicians don't understand AI so they turn off their rational mind and assume there is something super incredible some magical powers that they cannot understand that can destroy all humans.

Even humans - the real risk to humanity - could not destroy all humans even if they tried. There is no plausible scenario.

Even climate change and nuclear war and bio weapons - the most damaging mechanisms - would still only get some percentage of the people on earth.

And if we are talking about Skynet and self replicating robots and Terminators - please, grow up.

I thought nukes, incoming ice age, global cooling, peak oil, global warming, fresh water shortage, etc. etc. were going to do that

LeCun is an idiot.

We aren't going to get wiped out by a super intelligent AI, we are going to get wiped out by morons wielding intelligent toddlers with the power of a nation state.

He's right. I'm on the side of Bill Gates. Gates started a whole industry on his insights of the future. He has proven his abilities. AI is and will be a great disruptor. We are losing sight of that and are instead focusing on trying to stop it. Something that won't happen. We are on a path that won't be stopped. As individuals we need to try to prepare for the changes that are coming and stop focusing on human extinction in ten years. New technology and the changes it brings are scary but we have dealt with it for generations. Let's continue.