A planetary population of completely gullible fuckwits that believe a fancy search engine is capable of anything beyond fevered hallucinations…
…well SHIT.
I don’t see how a star sign would be able to run for office.
A complete failure of modern society
- The singularity happening
- it (the machine consciousness) by some twist of fate being benevolent towards us
- we, by another twist of fate, are unable or unwilling to destroy it out of ignorance
- the stars align and we allow it to become involved in governance and administration
And then it still needs to be able to dismantle capitalism to allocate resources efficiently and where needed and not hoarded to increase the power of a select few.
probably some way to extert real power, like if it controlled a vast sum of money
and it would need to have a bunch of really complex economic models and tons of computing power
no simple answer to this, I like the question btw
A general AI would be very good at playing the stock market.
But Gemini is not a general AI and it’s dumb as fuck. (As are all LLMs)
Why are people downvoting this “No Stupid Questions” post?
A huge amount of people on social media are conditioned to hate everything AI to the point where even asking a genuine, non-critical question gets you downvoted. A large part of this is people who haven’t really thought deeply about the subject - they’ve just absorbed the popular sentiment from the spaces they hang out in. AI is often seen as a symbol of big, greedy, unethical corporations, so any engagement with it is treated as suspect by default.
On top of that, there’s also a kind of tribal signaling at play. Being anti-AI has become a way for some to show they’re on the “right side” of issues like workers’ rights, art ownership, or tech overreach. So even curiosity can be read as siding with the enemy.
Because it’s one thing to not shame ignorance, and quite another to entertain people who are being deliberately obtuse.
It’s certainly reasonable to offer a charitable interpretation of the question, rather than assume mal-intent.
“What would it take for an AI to be given governance over the world?”
Yeah that’s pretty much what I was going for.
Kinda surprised about the downvotes but glad people came out to comment about it anyways.
Extinction of the human race.
You’d have to offer free lobotomies first.
Honesty, empathy and respect.
Good luck ever convincing me an LLM has any of those. I’m not even convinced most of humanity does.
Good luck convincing me a human world leader has any of those.
LLMs have way more empathy and respect than humans do
Which makes sense, they’re not trained on our actions - they’re trained on our words
LLMs have way more empathy and respect than humans do
LLMs are almost certainly unable to feel either of those emotions. Their responses are definitely more empathetic and respectful than those of your average social media commenter, but that doesn’t imply they have any subjective experience of such emotions.
LLMs undeniably display empathy, how or if they experience it subjectively is another matter entirely
But if you want to get philosophical and dive into how LLMs work, I have a strong argument that they have mechanisms that work very similarly to emotions, with or without subjective experience
There’s no president of the world…
There’s no president of the world yet.
A different world.
This some Deus Ex shit
Well, not being a very-much-finished space program would be a good start.
A rape conviction (apparently)
