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So uhh this visible “chain of thought” thing in deepseek triggered some sort of existential dread in me (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net to c/doomer@hexbear.net

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Seems like researchers are getting uncomfortably good at mimicking consciousness- so much so that it’s beginning to make me question the deepest parts of my own brain. Perhaps the difference between AI and myself is that I am only prompted by outward stimuli? It seems as though that is what makes the intelligence “artificial”

Christ even as I type this, my thought processes mimic, for example, deepseek’s exposed deep think capabilities. Fuck idk if I’ll be able to unsee it. Seems like the only thing we have on it right now is emotion and even that seems to be in danger

My final takeaway from all of this is that we are in hell

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[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The brain came first, and people thought to model a program based on a very simplistic view of how it works. Your brain is infinitely more complex than any llm, don't let it convince you that it is on your level. You are not an llm; DeepSeek is a pale imitation of you. You are a human. For better and worse.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well my fears are pretty much based on what other people think/believe (mainly authoritative people), because they’ll be the ones to decide when to use these things to replace humans.

The widespread adoption by the public also doesn’t make me hopeful either. I can certainly envision a future where musk partners his neural link with OpenAI to create the most effective wage slave in history.

[–] dat_math@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

the most effective wage slave in history

Look at tesla and spaceX. Consider how each of those domains' mechanical systems are incredibly simple compared to the complexity of the brain and emergent phenomena like consciousness.

Its implementation would be so riddled with unmaintainable and unportable shit that there's no way they'd reach this ideal, let alone graduate above medicalized torture into productive medicalized torture

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I think, like a lot of current 'market disruptors' AI firms are generally running at a loss. I think a lot of them will go out of business within the next few years/ the next big economic downturn. It sucks right now, but things will get better on this front I think.

[–] crime@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

We're a long, long way away from anything like that. Those technologies are nacent and almost entirely marketing hype to inflate stonks prices.

At most, combining those two technologies would be useful for customer service type jobs (think AI-augmented customer appeasement scripts) but people require too much maintenance, which is expensive — capital would sooner get rid of them altogether.