[zadler]

I feel this way about AI. Oh wait, AI is actually an existential risk to humanity, also.

[Retric]

Generative AI is hardly an existential risk. There’s huge fears around AGI, but that’s not what people are building.

[bondarchuk]

Look at (the comments on) the Genie announcement on the front page today or yesterday, and earlier generative "world models". People are itching to use those kind of models for the internal world representation of autonomous robots. More generally the fact that a model is "generative" does not mean it can not become an effective component in or pathway to AGI.

[gbnwl]

There’s huge fears around AGI, but that’s not what people are building.

Everyone is trying to build this.

[terminalbraid]

I assure you people are very much trying to build the titular Torment Zone in the hit scifi novel "Don't Build the Torment Zone"

[zadler]

Either way it’s headed off the rails. Sloppification of everything, followed by eventual machine takeover.