Nowadays, the world has many going concerns. Racism is on the rise, political parties are more divided than ever, the entertainment market is an unpredictable orboros obsessed with swallowing its own tail, and the question of whether or not it’s wise to bring kids into this world is ever present. It’s exhausting to think humanity’s painted itself into a corner, but here we are. Meanwhile, AI grows stronger and more influential by the day, but for all that, AI could be a solution to some of our problems; others believe it’s a tool of destruction. I offer you some food for thought today by way of the trailer for The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist, a new documentary from Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell.
What’s the new AI documentary about?
From the Academy Award-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created… and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.
AI experts weigh in on the dangers of the advanced tech
In the trailer for AI insanity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, Machine Intelligence Research Institute co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky warns that AI could trigger the “abrupt extermination” of humanity. Woof! Thanks for not sugar-coating our chances of survival, Eliezer. In all seriousness, though, there is some genuine “doom-and-gloom” in this documentary. According to Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, most people working on AI risk think their kids won’t make it to high school.
How does AI work? The panel of specialists featured in today’s trailer says it’s about patterns. If you learn to read and recognize patterns, you can generate information. The problem stems from AI moving too fast and the technology getting deployed prematurely. We’re not ready for what AI is capable of. Right now, AI is causing computer part prices (RAM) to surge, farming of the tech is destroying the environment, and AI videos and stills are spreading misinformation at a rapid pace, unchecked, online, daily. If you think this is tin-foil-hat stuff I’m spreading, don’t take my word for it, watch the trailer for The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist.
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