Some researchers have given up saving for their retirement, based on the assumption that AI has guaranteed the downfall of humanity.
  • JollyG@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    AI doomsday marketing wank has the same vibe as preteens at a sleepover getting spooked by a ouija board.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yes, but no different than AI competence wank. LLMs are a significant step forward, but not even remotely intelligent. It’s all bullshit and hype.

      One day it won’t be. We aren’t there yet.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I don’t think we’re ever going to get there until we get off this idea that LLMs are in some way going to achieve general intelligence.

  • ckmnstr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Right. If I had dumped all my money into AI stonks and was overall deeply invested into silicon valley I’d sell the doomer story, too. Keeps the bubble alive.

    Meanwhile the REAL threat of the AI hype, i.e. overburdening ecosystems with ridiculously hungry data centers and putting children’s sanity in the hands of a hallucinating sycophantic autofill can be entirely ignored because “AGI BAD SO WE MUST BUILD AGI”.

    • Perspectivist@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s not about “AI stonks” really. If one genuinely believes that AGI will be the end of us then any form of retirement savings are just waste of time.

      I really think that most investors aren’t as hyped about AI stocks as the anti-AI crowd online wants us to believe. They may have increased the weight of their investments on the tech sector but the vast majority of investors are aware of the risk of not diversifying your portfolio and if you’re someone with actual wealth you can invest then they’re probably not putting it all on Open AI.

      The recent drop in AI stocks that was in the news a week or two back doesn’t even register on the value of my portfolio even though nearly all of the top companies on it are tech companies.

      • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’m sorry, you lost me at…

        but the vast majority of investors are aware of the risk of not diversifying your portfolio

        The vast majority of investors, myself included, are … not that savvy. I only sorted diversification this year and I’m still tech-heavy but we all are just eating what’s on our plates and available.

        I don’t believe these markets will have humanity’s interests at heart, either.

      • ckmnstr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I mean, Sam Altman was literally throwing movie nights at OpenAI HQ with the movie “Her”. So either he didn’t get it or his copy conveniently ends at halftime.

  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I was on board with this article until they described all the power fantasies that techbros were having as facts. AI isn’t going to kill us because it grows sentient and “gets ahold of nuclear codes”; AI will kill us through sheer, painful, ecological collapse as Techbros seek to scale their models ever larger with more datacenters. Either that, or the economy collapses first, killing the tech (and likely the Techbros), and leaving us to ecological collapse anyways because of 200 years of industrial ratfuckery on a planetary scale.

    AI won’t kill us because it’s smart, it’ll kill us because it’s so, SO dumb.

  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Incorrect. They just know that the fake financial system is not linked to anything fundamental. That is what is going to collapse taking retirement savings with it.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    Because they’re fucking idiots and hype men…

    They want people to believe this is true, so that they panic buy in.

    This is reminiscent of tobacco execs saying tobacco doesn’t cause cancer. They’re not “experts” they’re paid shills who will say anything to make the stick price go up.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What’s all that nonsense about what’s his face tidying up his affairs because he thinks AI is going to kill us all.

    If it is going to kill us all I don’t think updating your will is going to have any effect on anything. Such obvious hype, it’s ridiculous.

    “Our product is so amazingly brilliant it’ll probably kill everyone everywhere” is exactly the kind of marketing that appeals to bosses.

  • Tikiporch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Just ask it how many Rs are in blueberry, and run away while it has to think about it a while.