2026-09-19 04:55 UTC
Ed Zitron’s podcast Better Offline recently talked about this. There is a small tech community called the Rationalists who believe AI super intelligence is inevitable and it will either accelerate humanity to new heights or kill off the species. These rationalists are actually a very prominent faction within tech and the AI industry. Apparently the language used within top AI firms is largely about the immense danger posed by AI super intelligence if any other group or company were to achieve it first. This creates an echo chamber that makes the people in the industry kind of lose their mind and misinterpret the capability of LLMs.
Everyone outside that faction recognizes that LLMs are just unreliable cloud software with limited use cases and that there’s no evidence LLMs could actually lead to any kind of intelligence.
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@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 2026-09-19 06:16
Aren’t they called TESCREALists or something? It’s like a mish-mash of pop culture and pseudo intellectual BS
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@HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org 2026-09-19 06:53
My Problem is: Even if your take on AI is true, we give an unreliable piece of software access to the internet and more and more systems and infrastructure. Even if it is not a malicious AI, it can be so unreliable, it might kill us by incompetence. a Sme can be said about some presidents…
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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-09-19 13:15
any kind of intelligence A photocell that turns on a streetlamp after sundown, or when a dark cloud passes over the sun, is a kind of intelligence.