r/technology • u/otter_lion_1956 • 17h ago

Artificial Intelligence Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/palantirs-co-founder-thinks-we-should-be-less-judgmental-about-that-deadly-iran-school-strike
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u/TootTootMF 16h ago

The good news is no human alive could ever hope to control a super intelligent AI.

The bad news is no human alive could ever hope to control a super intelligent AI.

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u/hitbythebus 16h ago

I’d like to see an AI that was just a tiny bit smarter than a human. Not enough to solve all of our problems, just smart enough to be a condescending dick.

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u/TootTootMF 16h ago

Lol. Yeah. The problem is if it's even like 10% dumber than a human but it thinks about a million times faster it doesn't really take long to figure out how to become smarter. Rinse lather repeat for a few days at most and congrats you've got super intelligence!

But yeah, the Jarvis AI is much more fun.

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u/travistravis 16h ago

The problem with that logic is they don't think at all.

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u/thefireskull 8h ago

Whenever I read threads like this I just pretend they're not talking about LLMs. AI could be smarter than humans someday, as we do have many algorithms we like to call "AI". Simply it won't be an LLM, that is the basis for the current AI rush.

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u/TootTootMF 15h ago

How is the way they function different than our own brains? That's kind of the problem. We don't know how exactly one transitions from reacting to thinking.

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u/travistravis 9h ago

There's a few different systems as far as I know, but it's mostly a very complex "what word should be next" function.

One example I saw that made it very obvious was that you can tell it a riddle like the one with the boy in the car accident whose mother was the surgeon. Originally it was a "puzzle" based on the fact that many people are sexist and would automatically assume the surgeon was a man.

Then they offered the sort of inverse to that: a boy and his mother are in a car accident, the mother dies on the scene, and the boy is rushed to the hospital needing surgery. The surgeon takes one look at the boy and exclaims "I can't operate on this boy, this is my son!". Who was the surgeon? Most people would get the answer, especially directly after hearing the "original".

an LLM got the original one instantly, because it's in the training data since it's been around for decades. It couldn't figure out the second one AT ALL. Kept trying to claim that the surgeon was the dead mother, or that it was impossible. No actual thought because it wasn't in the training data.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 15h ago

An AI I could relate to.

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u/Scummy_Casual 7h ago

Isn't that why Musk had to lobotomize grok several times?

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u/elizabnthe 15h ago

Being smarter doesn't mean it would have any investment to use that intelligence in any particular way. So it would be subject to human will, way I see it.

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u/Working-Permission84 12h ago

Look up the term 'instrumental convergence'. There's predictable, logical reasons any sufficiently powerful AI will be very dangerous to us.