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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
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I'm not an AI techie and I'm not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I'm having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I've heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can't really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

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[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think a big unknown right now, would be how many Millennium Problems are new GenAI techniques able to bruteforce with existing mathematical techniques/theories?

We just saw one massive bruteforce, can we bruteforce any of the Millennium problems related to cryptography? Because then all hell could break lose rather quickly

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

can we bruteforce any of the Millennium problems related to cryptography

Cryptographic theory says: no. The whole basis of cryptographic security is that brute forcing doesn't work (in any reasonable timeframe.)

Theories are overturned, from time to time.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Quantum computing + AI = ?

[–] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

That just proves that these tools do not possess any kind of intelligence at all. They're great at bruteforcing, precisely because it doesn't require any intelligence. I don't expect them to solve any of the millenium problems that cannot be brute-forced. In addition, as far as, I know the navier-stokes solution has not been verified yet.