AI definitely can’t grade my physics exams so I don’t think it’s replacing me anytime soon.
It was supposed to do big business things like Watson for medicine but that failed. So it’s become, in the paraphrased words I saw online “it was supposed to help artists do tedious tasks, but it’s now helping tedious people make art.” The person writing about the short story made me think about that “quote” and now I wish I could find the original.
Yes, history has many branches and the future will be no different.
As to the concern that AI can escape our control, Harari again:
In previous information networks, the members were human, every chain had to pass through humans, and Technology served only to connect the humans. In the new computer-based networks, computers themselves are members of the chain and there are computer-to-computer chains that don't pass through any human. Think of our world wide financial system where trillions of dollars are traded/exchanged daily with little or no direct human involvement after the initial human instructions are installed.
Sarah, your concerns about the danger that AI poses to humanity are echoed by many of us. A good primer on the subject, in my opinion, is NEXUS, by Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian. It is about the development of human information systems from the oral story to AI today. The major concern, as Harai puts it, is that AI (he calls it alien intelligence) is the first technology made by humans that has the capacity to escape our control. We still have control of it therefore there is a future for us so the conversation must continue. Thanks for your thoughts!
The way I see this is to is that we are creating a future where we cannot train ourselves to be better than the machines. It takes an lot of years and investment to make a human a human. And no we're splitting the efforts—there's the human part and the technology part. So the opportunity in a positive light is: What pathways open to us if we don't have to do technology things? But the consequence as you put it Vince is: What happens when we're not paying attention? Where does that go?
Literature has had a perspective on the hubris of science for quite awhile. But science, politics, society and power? They always need to fall flat on their faces. Siiiiigh.
Your comment makes me wonder if everything we've ever created has escaped our control. We have an intended outcome for it, and then it proliferates into other innovations—in beautiful and terrible ways.
Overall, I believe this is going to happen no matter what anyone is concerned about, but I also believe that whatever story is being touted by its makers is not the fully-fleshed out future—no matter what they believe.
AI definitely can’t grade my physics exams so I don’t think it’s replacing me anytime soon.
It was supposed to do big business things like Watson for medicine but that failed. So it’s become, in the paraphrased words I saw online “it was supposed to help artists do tedious tasks, but it’s now helping tedious people make art.” The person writing about the short story made me think about that “quote” and now I wish I could find the original.
Yes, history has many branches and the future will be no different.
As to the concern that AI can escape our control, Harari again:
In previous information networks, the members were human, every chain had to pass through humans, and Technology served only to connect the humans. In the new computer-based networks, computers themselves are members of the chain and there are computer-to-computer chains that don't pass through any human. Think of our world wide financial system where trillions of dollars are traded/exchanged daily with little or no direct human involvement after the initial human instructions are installed.
...to be continued
Sarah, your concerns about the danger that AI poses to humanity are echoed by many of us. A good primer on the subject, in my opinion, is NEXUS, by Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian. It is about the development of human information systems from the oral story to AI today. The major concern, as Harai puts it, is that AI (he calls it alien intelligence) is the first technology made by humans that has the capacity to escape our control. We still have control of it therefore there is a future for us so the conversation must continue. Thanks for your thoughts!
Re: escaping our control
The way I see this is to is that we are creating a future where we cannot train ourselves to be better than the machines. It takes an lot of years and investment to make a human a human. And no we're splitting the efforts—there's the human part and the technology part. So the opportunity in a positive light is: What pathways open to us if we don't have to do technology things? But the consequence as you put it Vince is: What happens when we're not paying attention? Where does that go?
Literature has had a perspective on the hubris of science for quite awhile. But science, politics, society and power? They always need to fall flat on their faces. Siiiiigh.
Your comment makes me wonder if everything we've ever created has escaped our control. We have an intended outcome for it, and then it proliferates into other innovations—in beautiful and terrible ways.
Overall, I believe this is going to happen no matter what anyone is concerned about, but I also believe that whatever story is being touted by its makers is not the fully-fleshed out future—no matter what they believe.
I’ve been teaching Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and he offers some thoughts on AI in that book as well.