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AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather::The real risk of AI isn't that it'll kill you. It's that a small group of billionaires will control the tech forever.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been thinking about how to do that. The code for most AI is pretty basic and uninteresting. It's mostly modifying the input for something usable. Companies could open source their entire code base without letting anything important out.

The dataset is the real problem. Say you want to classify fruit to check if it's ripe enough for harvesting. You'll need a whole lot of pictures of your preferred fruit where it's both ripe and not ripe. You'll want people who know the fruit to classify those images, and then you can feed it into a model. It's a lot of work, and needs to attract a bunch of people to volunteer their time. Largely the sort of people who haven't traditionally been a part of open source software.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If we set up some kind of blockchain to just pay people to honestly differentiate between pictures, it could be done.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no problem in this world so serious that someone will not suggest blockchain as a potential solution.

[–] Corkyskog -2 points 1 year ago

Your being hyperbolic and silly. Find me a solution to mass shootings or racism using blockchain.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, using Recaptcha is the way to get free labor for that training