Loading ...Fears About AI
While I am no expert regarding AI, the thing I didn’t get was why so many people worried about the threat to humanity it supposedly creates. I am not surprised that this so called threat largely comes not from using AI to lie about something but revealing how much our government, media and others have been lying to us, all along. Which is why rather than fearing it, we should embrace it. That also helps to explain the cry’s for regulation by the usual elements of government and those who create the narratives of control, rather than advocates of free speech and truth. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/ai-reboot-control-altman-delete
“First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent machines that can do all things better than human beings can do them. In that case presumably all work will be done by vast, highly organized systems of machines and no human effort will be necessary. Either of two cases might occur. The machines might be permitted to make all of their own decisions without human oversight, or else human control over the machines might be retained. If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can’t make any conjectures as to the results, because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave. We only point out that the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines. It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines’ decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and as machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more and more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won’t be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide.”
This is what most ‘experts’ fear. The quote is from the unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
Excellent explanation of what the fear is. I may end up being wrong but so far machines are just collecting and repeating the data collected. No evidence of ability to think. Yes, as they collect and analyze at faster and faster speeds(maybe even anticipating what the next level of data would or should be) it might appear they are thinking but it isn’t the same thing. If the programmers(no guarantee they will do so) forbid the machines from actually anticipating(guessing) what the next set of data will be, then the machines should not get too far out of control.
That’s the thing though, AI is all about the softare programming itself and using all the data available on the internet.