Something the article glosses over is that we are the scariest monster in the woods because we are intelligent. We can "survive, adapt, control, kill, or wipe out" anything or anybody else because our intelligence lets us outsmart nature and other people.
And now we've created some form of intelligence that none of us really understands.
Whether it is "real" intelligence or a "stochastic parrot" does not matter if it shows similar capabilities as us. Worse, it's similar but different in ways we cannot explain! I mean, if it outperforms most humans on advanced tasks but then makes elementary mistakes that a 4-year old won't, isn't that weird?
"Weird" can be good or bad, and I usually like "weird"... but now we're rapidly giving it tools to affect the real world and exponentially expanding the scale at which it can operate. We don't know what weird compounded at that scale and capability extrapolates to. Whether it is a SkyNet or a Bond supervillain or an Asimov scenario, the potential risks are considerable and unpredictable.
It's fair to be concerned about another monster in the woods even if we created it ourselves, because we've equipped it with the same powers we possess without understanding how they work.
And now we've created some form of intelligence that none of us really understands.
Whether it is "real" intelligence or a "stochastic parrot" does not matter if it shows similar capabilities as us. Worse, it's similar but different in ways we cannot explain! I mean, if it outperforms most humans on advanced tasks but then makes elementary mistakes that a 4-year old won't, isn't that weird?
"Weird" can be good or bad, and I usually like "weird"... but now we're rapidly giving it tools to affect the real world and exponentially expanding the scale at which it can operate. We don't know what weird compounded at that scale and capability extrapolates to. Whether it is a SkyNet or a Bond supervillain or an Asimov scenario, the potential risks are considerable and unpredictable.
It's fair to be concerned about another monster in the woods even if we created it ourselves, because we've equipped it with the same powers we possess without understanding how they work.