[ExI] AI Model Collapse

[Darin Sunley]

We find out if there is general public unawareness of the dangers of <x> by
rewriting the sentence as "The general public is generally unaware." and
calling it a day. :)

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > On Behalf Of Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
> Subject: [ExI] AI Model Collapse
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> Since we have been talking about AIs recursively self-improving on the
> lists...----  Stuart LaForge
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> I was astonished by a comment by a TV host who does programs about various
> jobs and industries, Mike Rowe.  We have so long been focused on recursive
> AI, singularity, etc, we completely take it for granted.  I had forgotten
> that many, or perhaps most people, think of AI as some new tech development
> which will be just fine as an office assistant, helping solve the labor
> shortage there.  Rowe commented Wednesday:
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> "...We've got a huge labor shortage and the push to get to the AI thing
> over the finish line. That means data centers. We've got to train people to
> build these data centers..."  Mike Rowe
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> Get the "AI thing" over the finish line.  He is thinking of it as
> artificial office workers, doing the grunt work that humans don't want to
> do.  Is there any reason to think that human-level AI wouldn't write
> self-improving software?  I can't think of one.  We bio-intelligences work
> our entire lives on learning and self-improvement.  But some bio-I is
> content to sit in some menial office job for years, making no effort to
> rewire itself.
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> How do we find out if there is general public unawareness of the danger of
> recursive AI?  Stuart, or anyone else here, do you know enough regular
> people to find out?
>
> spike
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