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Depending who you talk to, there seems to be an imminent, clear and present danger from artificial intelligence systems. As someone who grew up in the ’80s, as an ’80s kid and ’90s, we saw movies like “Terminator 2” and “Hackers” and so many others. There was one in which - I forgot the name - Matthew Broderick was there in that movie as well. I’ll recall the name, it was “War Games) “Greetings, Professor Falken,” was the thing over there. Thermonuclear war. Let’s play thermonuclear war, et cetera. It was a really, really good movie.

Anyhow, especially T2, Skynet, and everything else. When things get out of control and the machines take over, we may say, “This is BS. This is this. This is not going to happen.” But what if it is? There’s this very famous thing that I can’t get out of my mind. If you’re running away from the police and you have to hide, you have to win every single time. You cannot lose, because if you lose, you go to jail. And the police can lose as many times, but they only have to win once, because they win once, and it’s game over for you.

I feel it’s that for us. We have to win every single time to prevent the AI from coming loose. Because if the AI comes loose and it goes out of control, there’s no way we can do anything about it. What happened at Hugging Face, and there’s plenty of it, and you can Google it and so forth, OpenAI and Hugging Face. It was a miracle that we were able to find what was happening. But as it gets clever and more intelligent, it’s going to be able to hide itself in perhaps the answers that we do or the code that we write, and then infiltrate hundreds and thousands of millions of devices, and then maybe the entity will become alive. That’s how I’d like to put it, the entity, just like it was mentioned in “Mission Impossible,” the last one.

So, I think AI does represent a clear and present danger, and I think the big companies may literally be on a Titanic. They won’t care. They’ll be too in their pride or whatever. I was talking through this with my son Omer Mikhail Khan, and he was saying, “No, Dad, I think you’re overblowing it. I think we’ll be responsible. I think we will find ways to control it. I think the guardrails that we will build will be better and better.” And I was thinking that maybe he doesn’t understand, and he’s thinking maybe my dad’s okay boomer. Although I’m not a boomer, I’m Gen X. But I think that’s where the difference was. They don’t see the threat. We see the threat. We see the threat in very clear ways.

Today, the attention span of children is gone. Its critical thinking is being diminished. So there are going to be issues that are going to come up and play and so forth. And we have to be very careful about these things. So, the question is, what are we doing about it? How are we going to manage it? How are we going to fix things? Is AI going to get out of hand or not? I think it’s a very interesting space, which brings me to my question of why I’m writing this post.

I think it’s time, however you want to say it, that we have local models, and if OpenAI crashes, and if it crashes, it’s going to cause a whole lot of issues with others as well, et cetera and so forth. But I think we should have local models run rather than hosting our data on the cloud and so forth. Anyways, just my two cents of rant.

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