The weaponised selfie and image-based abuse

So have you seen the OpenAI story about the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem? So essentially it's one of the seven biggest unsolved maths questions.

If you can solve it, you get $1 million, and only one of the seven so far has been solved.

And so to prove how much of a geek I am, my laptop is called Hodge Conjecture, my iPad is called the Ryman Hypothesis, because...

I don't know.

So the only one that's been solved is the Poincaré conjecture about the shape of three-dimensional spaces, solved in 2003.

But OpenAI has done it.

So it's solved essentially this singularity problem involving liquids that no one understands because it's an impossible problem.

But have you seen that they've spent all of this time and effort... almost in the sort of dick measuring contest it feels, but it feels like they're doing it for the good of humanity and to prove that AI is the future.

Is it a marketing stunt or is it a real bit of progress?

I mean, you know, I am an AI pessimist.

So I do feel it's a marketing stunt because if it wasn't, then that money would have been used to actually cure cancer, which is what they are telling us AI will do.

And they're still not doing that.

They're still making weapons.

So yeah, I am a pessimist about this.

You'll be surprised to hear.

But I think...

You're right at pointing out the state of death and end of everything that keeps arising.

I think what's really interesting is that we keep claiming, you know, the death of social media, the death of the algorithm without any viable alternative.

And we're seeking to undo things that have gone and developed really fast and But it always seems like a band-aid approach.

The result is this feeling of impending doom, also because of everything else that surrounds this landscape.

If you really want some doom, have you seen Evan Hubbinger's ex-post? So he's a safety researcher, senior safety researcher at Anthropic.

who's said that AI is advancing so quickly there is a greater than 10% chance it could kill all humans within the next decade.

So as far as optimist pessimist goes, I think he's probably on your side of the argument as far as, you know, death to all, everything is ending.

That doesn't feel real, does it? That feels, is that marketing? Is that nihilism? Is it both? What is that? What is it?

I don't know what it is other than depressing in the sense that like, why are these companies trying to shove a product down our throat while also saying that it will kill us all? It makes no sense.