High-res image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain
here we see, basically, a potential feedback loop. AI tools advance brain science -- more advanced brain science can then inform progress in AI. this is why the situation is dangerous: because people dont think about these feedback loops. people see AI and they move the goalposts and rationalize by saying that &quot;cutting edge AI is still short of AGI so its ok.&quot; but most normal people dont think about how AI can be used to create AI or how AI could be used to revolutionize all kinds of fields that then plug back into AI. this is a very dangerous, non-linear space. its not the first non-linear space we have traversed but its certainly the least linear space we have ever entered into and it is the highest stakes humanity has ever or will ever deal with.<p>even if this is just another bullshit article, im just making a point related to it. people need to be worried about this. for the first time in history, lots of people are now creeped out by AI. but they arent taking action or demanding change. we need regulation, grass-roots efforts to stop AI. even if the only way humanity could abort AI as a concept, or delay it for a significant amount of time, was to return to the iron age, and it certainly isnt the only way, it would be unambiguously worth it, in every way and from every angle.<p>AI requires large compute. what we are doing now was impossible just 20 years ago. if not 20 then 30. you cant manufacture that kind of compute in your garage. global regulation would take care of it no problem. at the very least it would buy us an enormous amount of time that we could use to figure something else out. people always say that some hold-out country would defy global regulations. they wouldnt defy NATO, let alone a super-global coalition. and the idea of such a group or NATO enforcing compute regulations is not far-fetched whatsoever because the emergence of AGI or even advanced non-AGI goes against the interests of literally every human being. there is no group of humans that benefit from that ultimately. the problem is simply waking people up to this plain fact.