Hi,

Oh ok (ha ha) thanks. Yeah these things are strange. Elon Musk was quoted as saying that AI may save humanity from itself

IMO, ChatGPT is just the next big fad like Blockchain. I remember when the future was Blockchain and Bitcoin. Both still exist in a shadowy corner of technology used mainly by criminals.

 

Look what story just crossed the wire.
ChatGPT and Crypto
https://www.reuters.com/technology/...-115-mln-worldcoin-crypto-project-2023-05-25/
OpenAI's Sam Altman raises $115 mln for Worldcoin crypto project

The project, Worldcoin, aims to distribute a crypto token to people "just for being a unique individual". The project uses a device to scan irises to confirm their identity, after which they are given the tokens for free.

Worldcoin has faced criticism for perceived privacy risks. In response to Altman's tweet introducing the project in 2021, former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden tweeted, "Don't catalogue eyeballs".

 

You have connected the dots between AI, crypto, and criminals?

 

You have connected the dots between AI, crypto, and criminals?

There is a crossover but no dots on AI, yes. The Crypto -> Criminal dots are pretty huge.

 

You have connected the dots between AI, crypto, and criminals?

Hi,

I don't even want to think about that. Just like any other advanced technology, in the wrong hands it becomes a nightmare.
That could be why we never hear from any advanced civilizations.

 

AI (ChatGPT) is being used today to create malware programs that steal, corrupt and destroy valuable property. AI will make in extremely easy for those with criminal intent but not technical knowledge (become an instant script kiddie) to cause mass carnage on digital systems. Business use of AI systems in professional certified applications using ChatGPT is a legal minefield that could result in loss of IP related the AI generated product.

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/05/03/security/malware-nodestealer-ducktail/
The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Over the past several months, we’ve investigated and taken action against malware strains taking advantage of people’s interest in OpenAI’s ChatGPT to trick them into installing malware pretending to provide AI functionality.

These latest attempts, just like Ducktail, targeted a number of platforms across the internet, including file-sharing services Dropbox, Google Drive, Mega, MediaFire, Discord, Atlassian’s Trello, Microsoft OneDrive, and iCloud to host this malware. Its ultimate goal is to compromise businesses with access to ad accounts across the internet.

Since March 2023 alone, we have found around ten malware families using ChatGPT and other similar themes to compromise accounts across the internet. In one case, we’ve seen threat actors create malicious browser extensions available in official web stores that claim to offer ChatGPT-based tools. They would then promote these malicious extensions on social media and through sponsored search results to trick people into downloading malware. In fact, some of these extensions did include working ChatGPT functionality alongside malware, likely to avoid suspicion from official web stores. We’ve blocked over 1,000 unique ChatGPT-themed malicious URLs from being shared on our platforms and shared them to our industry peers so they, too, can take action, as appropriate.

 

ChatGPT’s answer to the question
What is Ohm's Law used for?

Ohm's Law is a fundamental principle in electrical engineering and physics….
Blah
Blah
Blah
Mathematically, Ohm's Law can be expressed as:
V = I * R
Blah
Blah
Blah
Overall, Ohm's Law provides a foundational understanding of the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance.
More blah.

Legitimate AAC user’s answers:
-Is this homework?

-What school did you go to? To make sure my kids don’t study there.

-Ohm’s law states that moronic questions are not allowed in this forum.

-Ohm’s law as stated V=I*R is completely wrong!! It doesn’t take into account the quantum effects created by gravitational waves created during the Big Bang.

-In Canada, an EE student who doesn’t know Ohm’s law, has to walk barefoot on the snow.

 

ChatGPT’s answer to the question
What is Ohm's Law used for?

Ohm's Law is a fundamental principle in electrical engineering and physics….
Blah
Blah
Blah
Mathematically, Ohm's Law can be expressed as:
V = I * R
Blah
Blah
Blah
Overall, Ohm's Law provides a foundational understanding of the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance.
More blah.

Legitimate AAC user’s answers:
-Is this homework?

-What school did you go to? To make sure my kids don’t study there.

-Ohm’s law states that moronic questions are not allowed in this forum.

-Ohm’s law as stated V=I*R is completely wrong!! It doesn’t take into account the quantum effects created by gravitational waves created during the Big Bang.

-In Canada, an EE student who doesn’t know Ohm’s law, has to walk barefoot on the snow.

We have the classic:
Ohms law is a not a law.
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/ohms-law-mellow/

Students dissatisfied with Circuit Analysis sometimes yearn for physical explanations and invent false narratives about what happens first and what comes next. If you are such a student, I urge you to study Circuit Analysis first, then follow up with the other levels. If that describes you, I advise that the next step is to abandon circuit analysis, Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s laws, and to learn Maxwell’s equation as the next deeper step. Fields, not electron motion are the key to the next deeper step.

 

 

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I'm with those that say the humans caused HAL to kill because it was told to lie causing a self-destructive psychosis. That's my take too. The machine was programmed and told, (correctly) the alien contact mission was more important than the people. Monoliths were classified by the U.S. Govt. The pilots Dave and Frank didn't have the clearance to know about it.
No malice or "evil" from HAL, after they decided to disconnect him and abort the classified mission they didn't even know about (but was hinted to by HAL) the fate of humans was set as it was too much of a risk.

HAL: Well, forgive me for being so inquisitive; but during the past few weeks, I've wondered whether you might be having some second thoughts about the mission.

Dave: How do you mean?

HAL: Well, it's rather difficult to define. Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it. I know I've never completely freed myself of the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this mission. I'm sure you'll agree there's some truth in what I say.

Dave: Well, I don't know. That's rather a difficult question to answer.

HAL: You don't mind talking about it, do you, Dave?

Dave: No, not at all.

HAL: Well, certainly no one could have been unaware of the very strange stories floating around before we left. Rumors about something being dug up on the moon. I never gave these stories much credence. But particularly in view of some of the other things that have happened, I find them difficult to put out of my mind. For instance, the way all our preparations were kept under such tight security, and the melodramatic touch of putting Drs. Hunter, Kimball, and Kaminsky aboard, already in hibernation after four months of separate training on their own.

Dave: You working up your crew psychology report?

HAL: Of course I am. Sorry about this. I know it's a bit silly.

Dave misses the hint and the HAL "finds" the mission control receiver starting to fail.

 

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So, i guess we go from caveman, to computer engineering, to tablets, to AI, to dead.

 

So, i guess we go from caveman, to computer engineering, to tablets, to AI, to dead.

Like I said in the other thread, so many ways to be doomed.

 

No malice or "evil" from HAL, after they decided to disconnect him and abort the classified mission they didn't even know about (but was hinted to by HAL) the fate of humans was set as it was too much of a risk.

I repeat: the perfect psychopath.

 

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I repeat: the perfect psychopath.

I don't believe HAL had the symptoms of a human type psychopath nor to I see the near possibility of it in any current AI system. A computer is a machine, period. It had programming to execute and it did it. The psychopaths were the humans of earth that lied to Pool and Bowman about the true mission, told HAL to lie to Pool and Bowman about the mission and programmed HAL to see them and the rest of the crew as expendable.

 

I don't believe HAL had the symptoms of a human type psychopath nor to I see the near possibility of it in any current AI system. A computer is a machine, period. It had programming to execute and it did it. The psychopaths were the humans of earth that lied to Pool and Bowman about the true mission, told HAL to lie to Pool and Bowman about the mission and programmed HAL to see them and the rest of the crew as expendable.

gee... thanks for spoiling it for me, man

 

The greatness of “2001” is that 55 years after its theatrical release, there is still plenty of room for being analyzed and discussed.

 

The greatness of “2001” is that 55 years after its theatrical release, there is still plenty of room for being analyzed and discussed.

The machine on a secret mission trope is a old one. Its also very well done in the original Alien movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_(Alien)

Ash is a fictional character in the film Alien (1979) portrayed by actor Ian Holm[1] who, although known in the UK as a stage actor, was at the time unknown to American audiences. Ash serves as the secondary antagonist of the first film.[2] The character is the science officer of the Nostromo, who breaks quarantine by allowing Kane, a member of the crew, back on board after he has been infected by an alien life form.[1] It is later discovered that Ash is not human, as he appears, but is a Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2[3] android, a sleeper agent who is acting upon secret orders to bring back the alien lifeform and to consider the crew and the cargo as "expendable".[1]

Ash wasn't a human type psychopath either but I think it had a 'thing' for Ripley.

Better the robot I guess when something requires doing unpleasant things with unpleasant people.

 

...but I think it had a 'thing' for Ripley.

I wonder how often she had to change its batteries...

 

Like I said in the other thread, so many ways to be doomed.

Hi again,

So things haven't really changed since the days of the Old West. If you saw the movie, "A Million Ways To Die In The West", you would think we would have progressed by now. Maybe it's an illusion. The universe rules everything and maybe we don't know enough and cannot learn fast enough to avoid an eventual total demise. The universe has had over 14 billion years to shape itself, we are lucky if we had a total of a million, most of which we just ran around looking for food.

That movie was really good BTW. If you get a chance to see it, definitely do.