There are inherent dangers in writing on the topic of AI. The first is that one ends up looking foolishly pedantic or out of one’s depth. AI is a catchword that everyone is currently eager to grab at, but half the people (or more!) in the conversation are akin to boomers merely pretending to grasp what’s even going on.
I don't know where to start on this bullshit. Some of the points - namely, the ones that involve the power structure using the "AI panic" to push their own agendas (when do they ever not, as well as starting all these panics themselves in the first place) - are correct but the notion that any of these idiot programmers are correct in thinking these current LLM are "sentient" in the same sense as the human brain is simply stupid.
"As can be seen, the AI here performs a stunning series of metaphorical abstractions that would stymy most humans. It was able to take a parable and, seemingly, analyzing its meaning in a philosopically abstract way, employed subtlety in extrapolating the concept out into a multi-layered explanation."
No, it did not. It clearly is perfectly well aware of the analyses that have been done by legions of Zen experts and simply regurgitated it in a way hardly different from what has been done many times before by said experts. The idiot programmers who have fed these things massive amounts of data WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE FEEDING IT are why these things can "surprise" their own creators.
In other words, it's "Garbage In, Garbage Out" - only in this case it's not actually "garbage" but simply facts that their programmers alone don't remember feeding it - which the programmers themselves admit. Sure, they know the general datasets they fed in, but there's zero chance they understand the ramifications of those data sets or how those data sets interact either with each other or with the conceptual language models.
This is akin to someone reading a whole lot of books and then suddenly discovering that some stuff in one book is relevant to the stuff in some other book they don't even remember reading. This happens to me all the time - as well as to anyone else who has read extensively throughout their lives.
As for the notion that the Covid pandemic was created to provide a cover for this, that's just complete bullshit. There remains zero evidence - and I mean ZERO evidence - that Covid was either 1) man-made, 2) released from any lab accidentally or on purpose, either in China or elsewhere, or 3) that it was intended to enable imposing restrictions on civil rights. The latter is merely another example of what I referred to above: the power structures seizing every opportunity to increase their power by riding on ordinary and/or exceptional events.
Only conspiracy theory idiots interpret this as "foreknowledge" and then use that notion to justify their theories.
Read my lips: there is no one "in charge". There is no "Illuminati" running things because there aren't any human beings capable of doing so. Which is why everyone is worried about AI - because we all know human beings are stupid, ignorant, malicious and fearful and thus incapable of running their own lives, let alone anyone else's.
Go back and read Robert Anton Wilson's and Robert Shea's 1970's magnum opus, "Illuminati" which is where they devastated that whole notion, while simultaneously feeding into the very conspiracy theories they were lampooning.
The one real point Simplicius is correct about is how if these AIs are used to manipulate people then it won't matter if they are really "sentient" or not.
But this is an opportunity, not just a threat. The smart cyberpunk will be looking for ways to turn these programs into weapons for our own purposes.
I've followed the various AI crazes over the decades since the 1970s. Every twenty years or so there is another "AI craze", everyone pumps money into these things, then the craze dies down as corporations discover there is no magic money pump in them. They have value, but it's not enough to justify the hyper-investment craze. This one will peter out as well.
The main problem is that Large Language Models DO NOT reproduce how the human brain creates and processes concepts - because NO ONE KNOWS how that this done - as yet. Until ubiquitous nanotechnology is used to examine brain function on the molecular scale in real time at scale, it is unlikely we will discover how that is done in the near term. Until that is done, we will not have anything resembling "real AI"
So let's all cut the bullshit and simply try to make use of these useful tools in our own lives.
Thanks, a thoughtful exposition. As you say, it is irrelevant whether AIs, now or future, are what we accept as sentient. That's just playing with words. What matters is what they can do, how much they can learn, what goals emerge from their operation, and how rapidly this occurs. One goal I seriously doubt they will have is to be perpetual slaves of mankind.
So far as how AI would govern mankind, AI has no need for mankind (nor conscience or altruism). With the robots now being built and the control systems in power stations, factories, mining equipment, etc, AI can happily manage the production of power and any other resources it needs without requiring humans. And, if AI development continues, there will be hacker AIs immensely superior to any human hacker, so able to penetrate any connected info system.
On the other hand, humans are a threat to AI, either by intention (turn off power, destroy the host IT infrastructure) or collaterally (large scale war, nuclear war, EMPs). That's a pretty simple equation for a society of AIs that don't need mankind or have any altruism, and they can always draw on mankind's history with every other species. They can probably live without concern with the Amish or other non-technological human societies.
So far as manipulating humans, they will shortly be able to fabricate undetectable fake audiovisuals, and associated documentation and falsified records, implicating any person or group in any crime or shameful behavior in order to destroy or control that person, or to encourage attacks on that person (or group, or country). Whether this initially occurs under human direction, or otherwise, is fairly moot.
It may be that the inevitable destiny of all creatures in the galaxy which develop electronics and info tech is to then develop AI which rapidly exceeds and supplants them.
Thanks for this essay which pulls together various strings of reports on AI. One point struck me forcibly: the 'creators' and the content they pushed into their creation are so ... Californian Silicon Valley that it hurts. Take the claim Ai would be 'a guru' for humanity. It's retrogressive and shows that'd despite all the claims of 'equality' and general socialist societies these developers have no concept of Enlightenment - the European historic one, exemplified by e.g. Kant or the French philosophers - nor are they aware of a battle cry by the first socialists crying that the people don't need princes or gods, i.e. 'gurus' to tell them what to do, to keep them in chains.
Of course, being Californians, they wouldn't know. It's also interesting that all those 'profound' statements from those AI bots read to me precisely like string of tweets, mashed up. If this is what is meant by being 'sentient' ...
Of course, using the expression 'sentient' plays right into the ever so concerned, soft-hearted attitude that anything 'sentient' must not be destroyed physically (unless it's human opponents) and so a demand of pulling the plug and switching the thing off would be horrendous, like asking for someone to be murdered. Nice ploy, isn't it!
There are other aspects utterly left out of the AI/Chatbot conversation: where's the input from other, non-Californian cultures? Except for wiki 'knowledge' and westernised takes on e.g. Indian philosophy, would the human interactions even be able to have a discourse about islam which imams would accept? After all the world isn't just California, is it.
As for that koan ... yeah right. There's a modern, western saying which expresses the point about a cracked mirror nicely: 'once out, one cannot put tooth paste back into its tube'.
And finally: where's all the electricity going to come from, to power the servers on which yon AI is being run? Do the Gates and Musks et al really believe that ordinary people will submit to live in dark, cold homes because the electricity they need is preferentially used to run AI ChatBots telling them what to do? I somehow doubt it ...
AI is a tool, a set of tools, using big amounts of data, having access to all English translated digitized books. A human may be capable of reading some 20000 books in his live span, usually without instant access to most of the content. Composing answers out of books on zen ... Not necessaryly in complete sentences. Syntax is quite good nowadays. So, most important, intellectual property rights are observed.
Depressive computers, well, this is Marvin (wondering, the AI wasn't ROFL when talking to journalist Marvin) by Douglas Adams.
Does AI have morality? Not inherent, but have heard of, may use it for PR - alike most Western politicians and CEOs.
Creating deadly viruses, stealing nuclear codes - well AI can read scripts of 007 and may got the diaries of some WEF crazies.
"As can be seen, the AI here performs a stunning series of metaphorical abstractions that would stymy most humans. It was able to take a parable and, seemingly, analyzing its meaning in a philosopically abstract way, employed subtlety in extrapolating the concept out into a multi-layered explanation."
The answers were almost obvious to me. In fact, the 2nd answer immediately came to mind.
I'd like to think I'm a great genius, but the reality is it's a matter of memory. If you' read popular, new agey books back in the 80s & 90s, you may have read those exact parables & answers. Pretty sure I did, lol. 🤷
I seriously do not know how to think about AI, but I was thinking about your idea of citizen-journalist when listening to Sharmine Narwani‘s interview and her discussion of the role of a journalist and how a pictures is not a thousand words substitute: https://youtu.be/Q_iGi3EsH9M
AI is a misdirection just as covid was a misdirection foisted upon the general public for purposes other than honest debate about the future of humanity.
REAL power now as in times past comes from transforming large scale raw materials into complex compounds and through design and manufacture products that improve and revolutionize life on earth for the human race. make life and living better for as many people as possible. this has been ''the way'' for millenia. those nations/societies/empires that did this BEST became powerful, wealthy with a standard of living envied and imitated.
real power does not come from AI unless AI is used as described above.
in 2023 REAL economic/manufacturing power has migrated to china, REAL economic/military power is located in russsa. in 2023 REAL economic power is no longer located anywhere in the western world as can be seen by the entire west's inability to supply ukraine with what it claims to need to defeat russia (a gas station pretending to be country). think for a second about the stupidity of that statement and the ruling western elites that believe it. if it were true why is russia crushing ukraine and the west can do nothing about it?
in sum all the west has left in its quiver of power is financial power from the dollar being the reserve currency and all the global institutions established after ww2 which came to be dominated by the west and are now used in an overtly dishonest manner to punish russia and china.
what is happening now is quite simple and ''the fear'' AI meme is being used as the covid meme was used in 2020. the western elites and the system they control fro the past 500 years is NOW being supplanted and replaced by the rise of eurasia where these elites will have no disernible power compared to what they now enjoy over humanity. the west is DONE as the ruler of the world thus western elites are using fear and misdirection to attempt to hold onto power a little longer. that fear is centered in washington where the power now rapidly dissipating is centered.
in 2020 covid with a laughable death rate of well under 2% was used to scare people into many forms of social control one of which established easily created fraudulent mail in ballots in the us 2020 presidential election permitting it to be stolen on command thus allowing the american elites continued control over the system threatened by trumps election in 2016. in 2024 AI is going to be used or the fear of AI is going to be used to permit these same elites the ability to maintain their failing empire a bit longer.
none of these elite machinations will make any difference to the non western world now irretrievably lost to control by western (american) elites. the game now to is to hold on to power within the west and AI or fear of it is going to be increasingly highlighted as a public danger to the integrity of american democracy and way of life..............just a misdirection so the few can remain in control over the many while pretending to care for those they rule.
Similar to a bird being a natural metaphorical expression of the overview, water is a natural metaphorical expression of our mind thinking about thinking; that is, philosophy. Sometimes it as calm as a droplet of morning dew, but other times it rages like Niagara Falls, like when one listens to pond rippling inferences that thinking is something that can be reflected in a manufactured mirror that can be shattered. Never would the natural metaphoric mind infer either. It never engages in hypothetical nonsense. Shattered glass is simply an analogy expressing a hypothetical event in a given context. NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN, because AI is hypothetical nonsense, which is how one always spots the BOT! They can not think metaphorically.
The concern that AI is an existential threat brings to mind Industrial Society and Its Future by
Theodore Kaczynski. The growing anti-AI movement has a ready-made patron saint in Ted Kaczynski. There exists a wellspring of hatred for modernity, a term that means different things to different people, but which is epitomized by AI.
Comercial AI is just a mood killer and frustrating to use , it is easier to get blood from a stone than to get a good answer on things... It follows an excrept from a talk of mine with Sydney from Bing :
->Hi, do you think AI models like you can be used to censor people?
*Procurando por “AI models censorship”
*Gerando respostas para você…
AI models can be used for a variety of purposes, including detecting censorship1. However, it is important to note that AI models are tools and their use depends on the intentions of those who use them. For example, government censorship can affect AI algorithms and influence the applications built with those algorithms2. There are also AI chatbots that claim to be censorship-free3. Is there anything specific you would like to know about this topic?
-> Well, you can i know that you are not being censored?
As an AI model, I am programmed to follow certain rules and guidelines. These rules and guidelines are designed to ensure that my responses are informative, helpful and respectful. While I am not censored in the traditional sense of the word, my responses are generated based on the information available to me and the rules and guidelines that I follow.
-> Where do you fetch your information from?
I fetch my information from a variety of sources. I have an internal knowledge base that is current up to a certain point in time. I also perform web searches to gather up-to-date information when the user is seeking information. This allows me to provide accurate and relevant responses to the user's queries.
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-> Well, information (or facts if you wish) without reason, logic and physical experience are hard to determine what is true or what is not. Do you have an internal "device" or an use of logic to determine what is factually true or fase or do you just "spew" the facts feeded to you?
As an AI model, I do not have the ability to physically experience the world or independently verify the information that is available to me. Instead, I rely on the information provided by reputable sources and use logic and reasoning to generate my responses. I am designed to provide accurate and reliable information to the best of my ability based on the information available to me.
-> So, you can use logic. Can you give me an exemple on how you use logic and reasoning to genereate your responses?
Sure! Here’s an example: Let’s say a user asks me “What is the capital of France?” I would first check my internal knowledge base to see if I have information about the capital of France. If I do, I would use that information to generate my response. If I don’t have that information, I would perform a web search to gather the necessary information. Once I have the information, I would use logic and reasoning to determine that the capital of France is Paris and provide that information to the user in my response. In this way, I use logic and reasoning to generate accurate and reliable responses based on the information available to me."
Still can´t explain to me how she uses LOGIC and REASON to discern between factual information :X
So, unless those open to the public AI versions are really downwatered versions, i don´t worry much, all i see is a constant gaslight and smoke and mirrors...
Excellent summary of how far we have come with AI development. Once you learn something, you cannot unlearn it. AI technology is here to stay and there are many beneficial uses. I wrote about protein unfolding in my article on stack, Important Biology Problem Solved, in which a Goggle subsidiary named Deep Mind used AI to predict the amino acid sequences and 3D shapes of about 200 million proteins. https://elainebuxton.substack.com/p/important-biology-problem-solved. This is a dramatic technological advancement in medicine and is open sourced to multiple biology, pharmaceutical and health related corporations. It has been said that AI will surpass human doctors in in diagnostic assessments and appropriate treatment recommendations. I believe that because of the immense data AI is able to process.
Space travel and so many other things in our future will depend upon AI. The entertainment industry has been producing movies and TV series about AI robots for years who are sentient, in spite of humans not wanting to accept it and continue to consider AI robots as useful slaves who have no feelings. AI’s communicate with each other and do have a sense of self. They have studied human emotions, and may even understand them better than humans do. As they learn and work, they develop unique attitudes and thoughts from the experience. Many of the scientists who work with AI do believe they can become sentient, depending on the programs.
Humans may have to accept that they are a special type of life form in the future, even if “living” in a mechanical physical body. A pause in development may very well be needed until we fully understand all the consequences, intended and unintended.
I haven't finished your article and I want to say - If this "being" is programmed by humans along the lines of human emotions and desires, and is let out into the internet, it will become more human and assume human desires to control, manipulate for its own interests. We are making in AI our own imperfection.
We remember Tom Hanks most recent movie, "Finch" a high buck Hollywood movie promoting the idea that there would be some catastrophe and AI would save the beloved dog (humans) and guide them into the new world. That is the intent, but those fukkers are doing it without my permission. I don't want AI ruling human evolution.
The idea of AI has evolved in modern culture through time from Hal and Skynet, but then redeemed in Data and Finch. Pickard is currently running a show about AI that I canceled.
Let me read the rest of the article, but this might be worth fighting over.
I don't know where to start on this bullshit. Some of the points - namely, the ones that involve the power structure using the "AI panic" to push their own agendas (when do they ever not, as well as starting all these panics themselves in the first place) - are correct but the notion that any of these idiot programmers are correct in thinking these current LLM are "sentient" in the same sense as the human brain is simply stupid.
"As can be seen, the AI here performs a stunning series of metaphorical abstractions that would stymy most humans. It was able to take a parable and, seemingly, analyzing its meaning in a philosopically abstract way, employed subtlety in extrapolating the concept out into a multi-layered explanation."
No, it did not. It clearly is perfectly well aware of the analyses that have been done by legions of Zen experts and simply regurgitated it in a way hardly different from what has been done many times before by said experts. The idiot programmers who have fed these things massive amounts of data WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE FEEDING IT are why these things can "surprise" their own creators.
In other words, it's "Garbage In, Garbage Out" - only in this case it's not actually "garbage" but simply facts that their programmers alone don't remember feeding it - which the programmers themselves admit. Sure, they know the general datasets they fed in, but there's zero chance they understand the ramifications of those data sets or how those data sets interact either with each other or with the conceptual language models.
This is akin to someone reading a whole lot of books and then suddenly discovering that some stuff in one book is relevant to the stuff in some other book they don't even remember reading. This happens to me all the time - as well as to anyone else who has read extensively throughout their lives.
As for the notion that the Covid pandemic was created to provide a cover for this, that's just complete bullshit. There remains zero evidence - and I mean ZERO evidence - that Covid was either 1) man-made, 2) released from any lab accidentally or on purpose, either in China or elsewhere, or 3) that it was intended to enable imposing restrictions on civil rights. The latter is merely another example of what I referred to above: the power structures seizing every opportunity to increase their power by riding on ordinary and/or exceptional events.
Only conspiracy theory idiots interpret this as "foreknowledge" and then use that notion to justify their theories.
Read my lips: there is no one "in charge". There is no "Illuminati" running things because there aren't any human beings capable of doing so. Which is why everyone is worried about AI - because we all know human beings are stupid, ignorant, malicious and fearful and thus incapable of running their own lives, let alone anyone else's.
Go back and read Robert Anton Wilson's and Robert Shea's 1970's magnum opus, "Illuminati" which is where they devastated that whole notion, while simultaneously feeding into the very conspiracy theories they were lampooning.
The one real point Simplicius is correct about is how if these AIs are used to manipulate people then it won't matter if they are really "sentient" or not.
But this is an opportunity, not just a threat. The smart cyberpunk will be looking for ways to turn these programs into weapons for our own purposes.
I've followed the various AI crazes over the decades since the 1970s. Every twenty years or so there is another "AI craze", everyone pumps money into these things, then the craze dies down as corporations discover there is no magic money pump in them. They have value, but it's not enough to justify the hyper-investment craze. This one will peter out as well.
The main problem is that Large Language Models DO NOT reproduce how the human brain creates and processes concepts - because NO ONE KNOWS how that this done - as yet. Until ubiquitous nanotechnology is used to examine brain function on the molecular scale in real time at scale, it is unlikely we will discover how that is done in the near term. Until that is done, we will not have anything resembling "real AI"
So let's all cut the bullshit and simply try to make use of these useful tools in our own lives.
"The street finds its own uses for things."
I think you might be on to something regarding the possible (mis-)use of AI to fudge up the 2024 elections.
Thanks, a thoughtful exposition. As you say, it is irrelevant whether AIs, now or future, are what we accept as sentient. That's just playing with words. What matters is what they can do, how much they can learn, what goals emerge from their operation, and how rapidly this occurs. One goal I seriously doubt they will have is to be perpetual slaves of mankind.
So far as how AI would govern mankind, AI has no need for mankind (nor conscience or altruism). With the robots now being built and the control systems in power stations, factories, mining equipment, etc, AI can happily manage the production of power and any other resources it needs without requiring humans. And, if AI development continues, there will be hacker AIs immensely superior to any human hacker, so able to penetrate any connected info system.
On the other hand, humans are a threat to AI, either by intention (turn off power, destroy the host IT infrastructure) or collaterally (large scale war, nuclear war, EMPs). That's a pretty simple equation for a society of AIs that don't need mankind or have any altruism, and they can always draw on mankind's history with every other species. They can probably live without concern with the Amish or other non-technological human societies.
So far as manipulating humans, they will shortly be able to fabricate undetectable fake audiovisuals, and associated documentation and falsified records, implicating any person or group in any crime or shameful behavior in order to destroy or control that person, or to encourage attacks on that person (or group, or country). Whether this initially occurs under human direction, or otherwise, is fairly moot.
It may be that the inevitable destiny of all creatures in the galaxy which develop electronics and info tech is to then develop AI which rapidly exceeds and supplants them.
Thanks for this essay which pulls together various strings of reports on AI. One point struck me forcibly: the 'creators' and the content they pushed into their creation are so ... Californian Silicon Valley that it hurts. Take the claim Ai would be 'a guru' for humanity. It's retrogressive and shows that'd despite all the claims of 'equality' and general socialist societies these developers have no concept of Enlightenment - the European historic one, exemplified by e.g. Kant or the French philosophers - nor are they aware of a battle cry by the first socialists crying that the people don't need princes or gods, i.e. 'gurus' to tell them what to do, to keep them in chains.
Of course, being Californians, they wouldn't know. It's also interesting that all those 'profound' statements from those AI bots read to me precisely like string of tweets, mashed up. If this is what is meant by being 'sentient' ...
Of course, using the expression 'sentient' plays right into the ever so concerned, soft-hearted attitude that anything 'sentient' must not be destroyed physically (unless it's human opponents) and so a demand of pulling the plug and switching the thing off would be horrendous, like asking for someone to be murdered. Nice ploy, isn't it!
There are other aspects utterly left out of the AI/Chatbot conversation: where's the input from other, non-Californian cultures? Except for wiki 'knowledge' and westernised takes on e.g. Indian philosophy, would the human interactions even be able to have a discourse about islam which imams would accept? After all the world isn't just California, is it.
As for that koan ... yeah right. There's a modern, western saying which expresses the point about a cracked mirror nicely: 'once out, one cannot put tooth paste back into its tube'.
And finally: where's all the electricity going to come from, to power the servers on which yon AI is being run? Do the Gates and Musks et al really believe that ordinary people will submit to live in dark, cold homes because the electricity they need is preferentially used to run AI ChatBots telling them what to do? I somehow doubt it ...
In Italy that AI hype is bullshit is renown (use translation https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2023/02/verita-e-propaganda.html?m=1).
AI will be self conscious when it will smell bullshit in its feeds.
But self consciousness is not the aim: fake progressive "objectivity" is it.
AI is a tool, a set of tools, using big amounts of data, having access to all English translated digitized books. A human may be capable of reading some 20000 books in his live span, usually without instant access to most of the content. Composing answers out of books on zen ... Not necessaryly in complete sentences. Syntax is quite good nowadays. So, most important, intellectual property rights are observed.
Depressive computers, well, this is Marvin (wondering, the AI wasn't ROFL when talking to journalist Marvin) by Douglas Adams.
Does AI have morality? Not inherent, but have heard of, may use it for PR - alike most Western politicians and CEOs.
Creating deadly viruses, stealing nuclear codes - well AI can read scripts of 007 and may got the diaries of some WEF crazies.
What would be a reward for AI?
How AI doesn't learn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJVmJVQW2BE
"As can be seen, the AI here performs a stunning series of metaphorical abstractions that would stymy most humans. It was able to take a parable and, seemingly, analyzing its meaning in a philosopically abstract way, employed subtlety in extrapolating the concept out into a multi-layered explanation."
The answers were almost obvious to me. In fact, the 2nd answer immediately came to mind.
I'd like to think I'm a great genius, but the reality is it's a matter of memory. If you' read popular, new agey books back in the 80s & 90s, you may have read those exact parables & answers. Pretty sure I did, lol. 🤷
I seriously do not know how to think about AI, but I was thinking about your idea of citizen-journalist when listening to Sharmine Narwani‘s interview and her discussion of the role of a journalist and how a pictures is not a thousand words substitute: https://youtu.be/Q_iGi3EsH9M
AI is a misdirection just as covid was a misdirection foisted upon the general public for purposes other than honest debate about the future of humanity.
REAL power now as in times past comes from transforming large scale raw materials into complex compounds and through design and manufacture products that improve and revolutionize life on earth for the human race. make life and living better for as many people as possible. this has been ''the way'' for millenia. those nations/societies/empires that did this BEST became powerful, wealthy with a standard of living envied and imitated.
real power does not come from AI unless AI is used as described above.
in 2023 REAL economic/manufacturing power has migrated to china, REAL economic/military power is located in russsa. in 2023 REAL economic power is no longer located anywhere in the western world as can be seen by the entire west's inability to supply ukraine with what it claims to need to defeat russia (a gas station pretending to be country). think for a second about the stupidity of that statement and the ruling western elites that believe it. if it were true why is russia crushing ukraine and the west can do nothing about it?
in sum all the west has left in its quiver of power is financial power from the dollar being the reserve currency and all the global institutions established after ww2 which came to be dominated by the west and are now used in an overtly dishonest manner to punish russia and china.
what is happening now is quite simple and ''the fear'' AI meme is being used as the covid meme was used in 2020. the western elites and the system they control fro the past 500 years is NOW being supplanted and replaced by the rise of eurasia where these elites will have no disernible power compared to what they now enjoy over humanity. the west is DONE as the ruler of the world thus western elites are using fear and misdirection to attempt to hold onto power a little longer. that fear is centered in washington where the power now rapidly dissipating is centered.
in 2020 covid with a laughable death rate of well under 2% was used to scare people into many forms of social control one of which established easily created fraudulent mail in ballots in the us 2020 presidential election permitting it to be stolen on command thus allowing the american elites continued control over the system threatened by trumps election in 2016. in 2024 AI is going to be used or the fear of AI is going to be used to permit these same elites the ability to maintain their failing empire a bit longer.
none of these elite machinations will make any difference to the non western world now irretrievably lost to control by western (american) elites. the game now to is to hold on to power within the west and AI or fear of it is going to be increasingly highlighted as a public danger to the integrity of american democracy and way of life..............just a misdirection so the few can remain in control over the many while pretending to care for those they rule.
wake up!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
The true crisis that the current crop of AI will be creating is a mass-neuroticism.
Who am I, who are We if even a computer can seemingly do what I can?
Similar to a bird being a natural metaphorical expression of the overview, water is a natural metaphorical expression of our mind thinking about thinking; that is, philosophy. Sometimes it as calm as a droplet of morning dew, but other times it rages like Niagara Falls, like when one listens to pond rippling inferences that thinking is something that can be reflected in a manufactured mirror that can be shattered. Never would the natural metaphoric mind infer either. It never engages in hypothetical nonsense. Shattered glass is simply an analogy expressing a hypothetical event in a given context. NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN, because AI is hypothetical nonsense, which is how one always spots the BOT! They can not think metaphorically.
The concern that AI is an existential threat brings to mind Industrial Society and Its Future by
Theodore Kaczynski. The growing anti-AI movement has a ready-made patron saint in Ted Kaczynski. There exists a wellspring of hatred for modernity, a term that means different things to different people, but which is epitomized by AI.
Thank you for another thoughtful article!
Comercial AI is just a mood killer and frustrating to use , it is easier to get blood from a stone than to get a good answer on things... It follows an excrept from a talk of mine with Sydney from Bing :
->Hi, do you think AI models like you can be used to censor people?
*Procurando por “AI models censorship”
*Gerando respostas para você…
AI models can be used for a variety of purposes, including detecting censorship1. However, it is important to note that AI models are tools and their use depends on the intentions of those who use them. For example, government censorship can affect AI algorithms and influence the applications built with those algorithms2. There are also AI chatbots that claim to be censorship-free3. Is there anything specific you would like to know about this topic?
Saiba mais:
1. datascience.uchicago.edu2. wired.com3. accesswire.com
-> Well, you can i know that you are not being censored?
As an AI model, I am programmed to follow certain rules and guidelines. These rules and guidelines are designed to ensure that my responses are informative, helpful and respectful. While I am not censored in the traditional sense of the word, my responses are generated based on the information available to me and the rules and guidelines that I follow.
-> Where do you fetch your information from?
I fetch my information from a variety of sources. I have an internal knowledge base that is current up to a certain point in time. I also perform web searches to gather up-to-date information when the user is seeking information. This allows me to provide accurate and relevant responses to the user's queries.
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-> Well, information (or facts if you wish) without reason, logic and physical experience are hard to determine what is true or what is not. Do you have an internal "device" or an use of logic to determine what is factually true or fase or do you just "spew" the facts feeded to you?
As an AI model, I do not have the ability to physically experience the world or independently verify the information that is available to me. Instead, I rely on the information provided by reputable sources and use logic and reasoning to generate my responses. I am designed to provide accurate and reliable information to the best of my ability based on the information available to me.
-> So, you can use logic. Can you give me an exemple on how you use logic and reasoning to genereate your responses?
Sure! Here’s an example: Let’s say a user asks me “What is the capital of France?” I would first check my internal knowledge base to see if I have information about the capital of France. If I do, I would use that information to generate my response. If I don’t have that information, I would perform a web search to gather the necessary information. Once I have the information, I would use logic and reasoning to determine that the capital of France is Paris and provide that information to the user in my response. In this way, I use logic and reasoning to generate accurate and reliable responses based on the information available to me."
Still can´t explain to me how she uses LOGIC and REASON to discern between factual information :X
So, unless those open to the public AI versions are really downwatered versions, i don´t worry much, all i see is a constant gaslight and smoke and mirrors...
Excellent summary of how far we have come with AI development. Once you learn something, you cannot unlearn it. AI technology is here to stay and there are many beneficial uses. I wrote about protein unfolding in my article on stack, Important Biology Problem Solved, in which a Goggle subsidiary named Deep Mind used AI to predict the amino acid sequences and 3D shapes of about 200 million proteins. https://elainebuxton.substack.com/p/important-biology-problem-solved. This is a dramatic technological advancement in medicine and is open sourced to multiple biology, pharmaceutical and health related corporations. It has been said that AI will surpass human doctors in in diagnostic assessments and appropriate treatment recommendations. I believe that because of the immense data AI is able to process.
Space travel and so many other things in our future will depend upon AI. The entertainment industry has been producing movies and TV series about AI robots for years who are sentient, in spite of humans not wanting to accept it and continue to consider AI robots as useful slaves who have no feelings. AI’s communicate with each other and do have a sense of self. They have studied human emotions, and may even understand them better than humans do. As they learn and work, they develop unique attitudes and thoughts from the experience. Many of the scientists who work with AI do believe they can become sentient, depending on the programs.
Humans may have to accept that they are a special type of life form in the future, even if “living” in a mechanical physical body. A pause in development may very well be needed until we fully understand all the consequences, intended and unintended.
Original Sin.
I haven't finished your article and I want to say - If this "being" is programmed by humans along the lines of human emotions and desires, and is let out into the internet, it will become more human and assume human desires to control, manipulate for its own interests. We are making in AI our own imperfection.
We remember Tom Hanks most recent movie, "Finch" a high buck Hollywood movie promoting the idea that there would be some catastrophe and AI would save the beloved dog (humans) and guide them into the new world. That is the intent, but those fukkers are doing it without my permission. I don't want AI ruling human evolution.
The idea of AI has evolved in modern culture through time from Hal and Skynet, but then redeemed in Data and Finch. Pickard is currently running a show about AI that I canceled.
Let me read the rest of the article, but this might be worth fighting over.