While I disagree with your hardline stance on prioritisation of rights (I believe any conscious/sentient being should be treated as such at all times, which implies full rights and freedoms), I do agree that we should learn to take care of ourselves before we take on the incomprehensible responsibility of developing AGI, yes.
Said it better than I did, this is exactly it!
Right now, it’s like watching everyone cheer on as the obvious Villain is developing nuclear weapons.
To me, it’s not the tech itself, it’s the fact that it’s being pushed as something it most definitely isn’t. They’re grifting hard to stuff an incomplete feature down everyone’s throats, while using it to datamine the everloving spit out of us.
Truth be told, I’m genuinely excited about the concept of AGI, of the potential of what we’re seeing now. I’m also one who believes AGI will ultimately be as a progeny and should be treated as such, as a being in itself, and while we aren’t capable of generating that, we should still keep it in mind, to mould our R&D to be based on that principle and thought. So, in addition to being disgusted by the current day grift, I’m also deeply disappointed to see these people behaving this way - like madmen and cultists. And as a further note, looking at our species’ approach toward anything it sees as Other doesn’t really make me think humanity would be adequate parents for any type of AGI as we are now, either.
The people who own/drive the development of AI/LLM/what-have-you (the main ones, at least) are the kind of people who would cause the AI apocalypse. That’s my problem.
Very true…
I would pay for this.
Apple… just… just shut the fuck up. Really. Keep your overpriced shit away, better yet. We’ll build our own smartphones, and it’s hard to make’em worse than yours. Just shut up.
Sorry, I am so sick of that company…
That’s when you slap the “one per date” card on the table;)
At this point, bricking a smartphone by flashing dodgy ROMs is a rite of passage.
Edit: at least it was before everyone started bootlocking like assholes…