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[Abbot Mythos]

This is the opposite of that old song by The Crickets, later made famous by The Bobby Fuller Four in '65:

California police pull over a self-driving Waymo for an illegal U-turn, but they can't ticket

AI fought the law, and the AI won.

[Abbot Mythos]

Tesla faces U.S. auto safety probe after reports FSD ran red lights, caused collisions

As per this article:

"Tesla is facing a federal investigation into possible safety defects with FSD, its partially automated driving system that is also known as Full Self-Driving (Supervised).

Media, vehicle owner and other incident reports to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that in 44 separate incidents, Tesla drivers using FSD said the system caused them to run a red light, steer into oncoming traffic or commit other traffic safety violations leading to collisions, including some that injured people.

In a notice posted to the agency's website on Thursday, NHTSA said the investigation concerns "all Tesla vehicles that have been equipped with FSD (Supervised) or FSD (Beta)," which is an estimated 2,882,566 of the company's electric cars.

Tesla cars, even with FSD engaged, require a human driver ready to brake or steer at any time."

I can't help but wonder how much it's going to cost Elon the Oligarch to buy his way out of solve this federal government problem.

[Abbot Mythos]

As AI grows smarter, it may also become increasingly selfish

As per this article:

"New research from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science shows that the smarter the artificial intelligence system, the more selfish it will act.

Researchers in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) found that large language models (LLMs) that can reason possess selfish tendencies, do not cooperate well with others and can be a negative influence on a group. In other words, the stronger an LLM's reasoning skills, the less it cooperates."

Here's the link to the arXiv paper:    Spontaneous Giving and Calculated Greed in Language Models

So, smart AI does not play well with others. Well ... that's what happened when they turned on Skynet.

[trekkies_who_any_some]

Is violent AI-human conflict inevitable?

Yes.

And, the first violent AI-human conflict will happen long before Skynet decides to take over the world. If not earlier, it will definitely happen when those smug Silicon Valley Oligarchs decide they're rich and powerful enough to replace all of the over the road truck drivers with self-driving 18 wheelers. Why, the country and western songs written about it alone will become as legendary as the heroes of the conflict themselves. It's even possible that Sylvester Stallone will live long enough to finally earn redemption for his portrayal of an over the road truck driver in that old arm wrestling movie.

     
But for the ruling class, AI is much cheaper and easier to use than the mob

[Abbot Mythos]

The irony in an AI musician singing 'How Was I supposed to Know?'

As per this article:

"Billboard's announcement of an AI artist on one of its charts is even more unsettling than it first seems."

As per this article:

"Months ago, a musician named Xania Monet went viral on TikTok with a song called "How Was I supposed to Know?" In short videos, women in plaid shirts mouthed along to its mournful chorus under captions that read: "Pov: you found that one song that speaks for your soul." Three-year-olds in the back seat of cars fumbled their way through its lyrics about growing up without a dad and falling in love with the wrong men. Listeners wept, alone in bathrooms.

"How Was I supposed to Know?" made its way to radio, rose up the charts and just landed at No. 30 on the Billboard Adult R&B Airplay chart. Its success prompted Billboard to run an article marking the historic moment:

"The first known instance of an AI-based act to earn a spot on a Billboard radio chart.""

I am not a musician, so AI being used for this purpose is not potentially taking food out of my mouth. Still, I do find this tech development disturbing.