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  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    What benefits to “AI supremacy” are there? Going to hand the keys to defense and the internet to it? What could go wrong…

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      3 years ago

      What benefits to “AI supremacy” are there?

      I wasn’t saying there was any, I was saying there are benefits to the race towards it.

      In the sense of - If you could pick any subject that world governments would be in a war about - “the first to the moon”, “the first nuclear” or “first hydrogen bomb”, or “the best tank” - or “the fastest stealth air-bomber”

      I think if you picked a “tech war” (AI in this case) - Practically a race of who could build the lowest nm fabs, fastest hardware, and best algorithms - at least you end up with innovations that are useful