AI will speed up and complete the research on curing aging and disease. Everyone pouring infinite money into AI know this, regardless of whether they acknowledge it in public. They are most likely not wrong.
As for all the questions about what they'll do with this and what the consequences will be, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
They will use it to clog up search engine algorithms with shit and then use it to create sentient landmines, spycams and bomb collars.
They will use it to record the information of every single human in the world so they could be slaughtered llke cattle when the globalists force collectivized lifestyles on all of humanity.
That doesn't cure their cancer or Alzheimer's or age-induced incontinence. I don't think the "elites" give much of a fuck about "us" either way. Most people on average don't give much of a fuck about random strangers they'll never interact with. Most people who claim otherwise lie.
But if the elites pin their hope on something saving their lives, and perceive you as getting in the way, then yeah all of a sudden they are going to form strong and very specific opinions.
AI uses probability to figure out the most likely answer to a problem based on existing information. That doesn't necessarily mean it will generate something completely new. Many inventions in history were accidental discoveries or countless iterations of trial and error. So, I do question how effective it will be at making new discoveries.
Yes but also no. There's answers at different depths here.
LLMs are what every normie call "AI", and those obviously don't think. They are essentially the statistical correlate of all text produced by our civilization. Like a playback mechanism for surface-level knowledge. There will be isolated areas where their statistics actually do capture the underlying model and as such are real "knowledge", but we currently cant control this and barely detect it. However, slight magic does happen when they are folded back on themselves, as agents, writing an output, then correlating that with the statistical grand total of human knowledge to create a response, repeatedly. How many "new discoveries" truly aren't the combination of patterns already known from other contexts? Not many.
Then there's other architectures. Go was considered the prime example of games that couldn't be beaten by algorithms, but after AlphaGo, humans will never beat the machine again. Science made no headway with predicting protein folding, until AlphaFold swooped in and did it (something so much more significant than fcking LLMs). Those weren't solved by processes analogous to human thought, but to call it fake thinking would be not entirely different from accusing airplanes of fake flight.
Various forms of fake thinking will continue to do increasing amounts and types of real work.
A common misconception is that a lot of these elites/oligarches fuck with humanity for profit.
But usually, they do not and they will not care.
It is a RELIGIOUS MISSION, and they will devastate all of humanity and rule over the remains of society as a Gods.
AI will speed up and complete the research on curing aging and disease. Everyone pouring infinite money into AI know this, regardless of whether they acknowledge it in public. They are most likely not wrong.
As for all the questions about what they'll do with this and what the consequences will be, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
The elites won't use it for medical research.
They will use it to clog up search engine algorithms with shit and then use it to create sentient landmines, spycams and bomb collars.
They will use it to record the information of every single human in the world so they could be slaughtered llke cattle when the globalists force collectivized lifestyles on all of humanity.
That doesn't cure their cancer or Alzheimer's or age-induced incontinence. I don't think the "elites" give much of a fuck about "us" either way. Most people on average don't give much of a fuck about random strangers they'll never interact with. Most people who claim otherwise lie.
But if the elites pin their hope on something saving their lives, and perceive you as getting in the way, then yeah all of a sudden they are going to form strong and very specific opinions.
AI uses probability to figure out the most likely answer to a problem based on existing information. That doesn't necessarily mean it will generate something completely new. Many inventions in history were accidental discoveries or countless iterations of trial and error. So, I do question how effective it will be at making new discoveries.
Yes but also no. There's answers at different depths here.
LLMs are what every normie call "AI", and those obviously don't think. They are essentially the statistical correlate of all text produced by our civilization. Like a playback mechanism for surface-level knowledge. There will be isolated areas where their statistics actually do capture the underlying model and as such are real "knowledge", but we currently cant control this and barely detect it. However, slight magic does happen when they are folded back on themselves, as agents, writing an output, then correlating that with the statistical grand total of human knowledge to create a response, repeatedly. How many "new discoveries" truly aren't the combination of patterns already known from other contexts? Not many.
Then there's other architectures. Go was considered the prime example of games that couldn't be beaten by algorithms, but after AlphaGo, humans will never beat the machine again. Science made no headway with predicting protein folding, until AlphaFold swooped in and did it (something so much more significant than fcking LLMs). Those weren't solved by processes analogous to human thought, but to call it fake thinking would be not entirely different from accusing airplanes of fake flight.
Various forms of fake thinking will continue to do increasing amounts and types of real work.