Teleoperated Humans(jefftk.com) |
Teleoperated Humans(jefftk.com) |
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This is how target workers live
Following GPS directions is no different than assembling an Ikea furniture by following the instructions. So I guess Ikea has been teleoperating millions of humans for decades?
I respect the author, but he succumbed to an... unnecessary temptation. There will be a dozen other "here's what AI means for humanity" posts on HN before the end of the week. For the human-written ones, I doubt that any of the authors will be proud of their analyses five years from now.
FYI, I don't think this is desirable. See the section of the post starting with "Is it a good thing? I think mostly no..."
> This technology allows employees to be easily slotted in and out of different jobs with very little friction, which destroys their bargaining power.
> AI permanently blacklists employees from every minimum-wage job just for being late a few times
> This can easily lead to a race to the bottom where companies no longer have to providing fulfilling, dignified jobs.
If I were stuck in this hell, I would gladly assist any superintelligent AI taking a swipe at the humans who put me in it.
...and of course he is a Rationalist/EA guy. Why am I not surprised?
This completely confused and misses the point of teleoperation vs following instructions/rules/protocols. Who set the GPS navigation destination?
Any sort of rule following is teleoperation by this definition then ⇒ the whole world is teleoperated.
Hospitals introduced intubation checklists to make sure protocols are followed and patients don't die. How about coding guidelines?
>Which is why I'm heartened to see a lot of support, including from the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, for managing the pace at which these systems become increasingly capable.
This poor guy actually believes the PR, that the frontier model CEOs want to slow things down (and not just setup regulatory-enforced moats around their empires).