AI news:
Artificial intelligence is hitting the global labour market "like a tsunami" International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday.
Artificial intelligence is likely to impact 60% of jobs in advanced economies and 40% of jobs around the world in the next two years, Georgieva told an event in Zurich.
"We have very little time to get people ready for it, businesses ready for it," she told the event organised by the Swiss Institute of International Studies, associated to the University of Zurich
Not particularly shocking news, especially since most of the companies that are adopting AI are hiding the fact that they are doing so because of backlash or other internal issues.
Shits going to get very hard for a lot of people when entire portions of the economy (RIP call centers) get all the jobs replaced by AI.
Even the people in physical jobs won't be safe since all the people that were automated away are going to still need work and will flock to harder to automate physical jobs, driving down wages.
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OpenAI is pausing the use of the popular Sky voice in ChatGPT over concerns it sounds too much like the "Her" actress Scarlett Johansson.
You know how the GPT-o voice totally sounded like Scarlett Johanson from the movie Her and the whole circumstances basically match it to a T? Yeah, they just scrapped that because Scarlett hired lawyers and was about to sue them. Turns out that Altman *had* asked if they could use her voice and she unequivocally said no earlier.
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Comprehensive overview of all the related drama.
There has been an exodus of top safety researchers away from OpenAI over the last few years, with some quitting, being forced out, or merely being sidelined. They also dissolved their superalignment team that was in charge of figuring out how to make AI that doesn't kill everyone.
OpenAI's lax safety stance is super worrying to me, although I suppose if you don't really believe in AI it isn't a big deal.
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Then the enemy tries to mess with AI and things become messy.
Look at a simple example. Chess engines. They beat humans easily... But what if we change the rules slightly? Human players will adapt instantly and successfully apply all their experience from regular chess. The chess engine needs to be retrained\reprogrammed.
General: El presidente, there is a problem with the new AI fighter jets, five have been shot down.
Presidente: WHAT! You promised it would be the equal of the CyberplaneX and would be impossible for any country but Xmerica to shoot down.
General: This black box recording will explain it.
The general turns on the TV, and on the screen a fleet of blimps armed with 16th century naval cannons appear. The AI planes are confused and unable to perceive either of the ancient technologies as threats, and just fly in circles while the blimps take shots at them. Eventually a cannonball manages to connect and a plane goes down.
General: I'm told the only way to fix it would be a complete new training run, it would cost another $100 trillion X-dollars.
Im willing to bet Air-to-air AI fighters would be easier to program than air-to-ground. Fewer things you have to program the AI to correctly identify. If it can reliably tell the difference between the aircraft you and your allies are using and those of enemies and non-combatants, then militaries might even give it the OK to fire at will at any target it identifies as an enemy aircraft.
Yeah, stuff in the air is categorically simpler, shooting stuff on the ground is much more nuanced, but even then its way simpler then trying to do AI stuff with a normal ground based robot. Accidentally killing noncombatants is the big concern, but that's fairly simple to solve by keeping a human in the loop and requiring them to OK every engagement.
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