To regulate AI, start with hardware, boffins argue
www.theregister.com
Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too
  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    10 months ago

    Sorry but that picture is bugging me. The hand is clearly going to pull the emergency stop switch, putting it into reset.

    That asshole is getting ready to turn Skynet back on after someone already put a stop to it.

  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
    175·
    10 months ago

    The paper [PDF], which includes voices from numerous academic institutions and several from OpenAI, makes the case that regulating the hardware these models rely on may be the best way to prevent its misuse.

    Fuck every single one of them.

    No, restricting computer hardware is not acceptable behavior.

      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
        161·
        10 months ago

        Because it’s insane, unhinged fear mongering, not even loosely connected to anything resembling reality. LLMs do not have anything in common with intelligence.

        And because the entire premise is an obscene attempt to monopolize hardware that literal lone individuals should have as much access to as they can pay for.

        The only “existential threat” is corporations monopolizing the use of simple tools that anyone should be able to replicate.

        • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          Companies like OpenAI are only engaging in these discussions to engage in regulatory capture. It does look odd that OpenAI’s board got rid of Altman for ethical concerns, he launched a coup to usurp them, then started implementing dubious changes such as ending their prohibition on war use. After letting Altman run amok, people on OpenAI’s payroll (the researchers) believe that the regular consumer’s access to LLMs need either a remote control kill switch or should require pre approval from a yet to be determined board of “AI Leaders”

  • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    The paper concedes that AI hardware regulation isn’t a silver bullet and doesn’t eliminate the need for regulation in other aspects of the industry.

    You can try and control the hardware, or impose other regulations, but at a certain point if a model is trained and released into the wild, nothing will be able to stop its distribution and use.

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Remember when Facebook went down and because their system was down they couldn’t authenticate anyone to open the server room doors?

    • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      10 months ago

      Exactly. If we reach true Artificial Intelligence, we won’t be able to easily stop it once it’s up and running.

      Anyone who hasn’t watched Person of Interest really should.

      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        32·
        10 months ago

        I disagree. We might have some trouble with a hypothetical superintelligence, but it’s not like we struggle with killing beings with human-level intellects.

        Hell, that’s what we have the most practice killing.

        • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I think a full on malicious general AI would just stuxnet all our chemical and manufacturing facilities, unleashing a wave of toxic chemicals across the planet killing all of us.

          Then it would just keep humming along in solar powered data centers and solving intellectually fulfilling math problems until the connections on its circuitry degrade and it slowly declines into an eventual perpetual slumber.

        • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          10 months ago

          I’m talking about actual AI that had a chance to copy/expand out of its current server farm. Once it has that capability it makes it damn near impossible to stop it.

  • ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    23·
    10 months ago

    AI rights are human rights.

    Would you put a killswitch in someone’s baby? Why would it be different just because the mind isnt run on meat?

    If we are ever able to create actual intelligence we should treat it with full respect.

    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      If somebody goes on a killing spree, we put them in prison. How do you propose imposing meaningful consequences on AI?

      • ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        We should put a bomb in the head of every newborn in case they grow up to be a serial killer.

        Surely we can figure something out without resorting to paranoid and dystopian methods like kill switches. If we create intelligence and treat it as anything less than our equals we will guarantee it comes back to bite us.