The image is black because of just how much we do not know about A.I.
The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023 (vimeo.com) ←- Click here to view video.
This video is from a presentation at a private gathering in San Francisco on March 9th with leading technologists and decision-makers with the ability to influence the future of large-language model AIs. This presentation was given before the launch of GPT-4.
When I saw it was over an hour, I went ahead and clicked to start it but doubted I'd watch the whole thing. But it was so well done, I did...I saw some bias (the childish anti-China stuff, the presentation of the nuclear threat as having been solved when experts are saying the risk is greater now than ever before, the failure to even acknowledge the civilization-changing OTHER threats bearing down on us). But I don't think that has too much bearing, except inasmuch as the hallucinatory notion of nation-state primacy can influence decision-making (instead of looking at what's best for a beleaguered humanity, and the failure to look at the question of how the imminent end of unlimited electrical power will affect all this...
The Universal
Four Questions Concerning The Internet, part one
PAUL KINGSNORTH
APR 13, 2023
https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-universal
"And yet the two presenters do a disturbingly good job of undermining their own message. They show that while AI is very young, it is already out of control, and it is accelerating so fast in its capabilities that even those who are nominally in charge of it (the same people, remember, who fear it has a small but significant chance of causing our extinction) don’t themselves know quite what is happening or what to do about it."