I think I'm less worried about AI taking over but rather some people taking over with the help of AI. I think at the current rate of AI research, Law doesn't seem to be able to keep up and that makes it vulnerable. I think I'm more worried about the (un)ethical ways people will be able to use the new technologies. Not sure if there is any data on whether the new technology helps the 'bad' guys more than the normal folks. On the more positive end, you get to have your personal all-knowing knowledge-base. On the other hand, I'm sure this will bring on an influx of additional crime (scams, forgery and so on).
You could literally use chatgpt to start posting on Reddit in order to promote a particular world view and convince other Redditors to the cause. Humans will do the rest.
Considering they are trained from the internet AI will be heavily influenced by cat pictures so they will only kill those who are not cute. The future will be people endlessly posting photos of themselves on the internet being cute in hopes of holding off the AI death squads, so pretty much the same as things are now but with AI death squads.
What’s on my mind is when they’re sufficiently “real” that it doesn’t matter whether they’re actually “conscious” or not, they exploit our empathy.
Basically this: https://youtu.be/etJ6RmMPGko
This is the basic plot in the singularity series of books. [0]
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Series-4-book-series/dp/B...
It is possible to have a Rouge AI the worst that could happen is Skynet with Terminators that seek to kill all humans, since the military wants to use AI for killer robots and drones.
First case 5 years ago: https://www.truthorfiction.com/did-four-artificially-intelli...
Dec 15 2018
remember few vaguely, there's another one-two but cannot really recall
Maybe wait a hundred years or so
> requisition computing power, copy themselves to these servers, and modify their own training and construction
Fortunately the training hardware/software stack is kinda finicky and specific. They aren't just going to anonymously rent a bunch of instances for full self training, even on the dark web, at least not yet.
Sci fi is full of AI that slip out of systems and slither around the net like its all a big highway, but integrated 500-GPU supercomputers or Cerebras WS2 nodes aren't just lying around unattended. And we are a long way from full retraining on commodity hardware.