Posted on 03/29/2023 5:36:54 AM PDT by srmanuel
I know some think the concept of AI is fool's gold and will amount to nothing, I might be crazy, I think AI's potential for good and evil is astronomical and if left unchecked will usher in incredible changes in our daily lives. My fear is, despite this potential pause of AI development, nothing will change because there will always be some group or government that will go forward with AI development and who knows what the outcome will be.
Two different things, spy chips in appliances have been happening for a long time, AI is in its infancy, 5-10 years from now, we won’t recognize the technology.
Can’t stop technological change.
What we can do is to engage in some hard thinking about desirable and undesirable social change. If we just stumble into the future, it will be a bad future. If we make a plan for how to live in an AI world, maybe it won’t be a bad world.
But I just see world leaders trying to get rich and stuff. The “leadership class” has no interest in leading anything at all.
No, we need more robots in household appliances.
What good is a camera filming the mold growing in the back of the refrigerator, if nobody looks at it or acts on it.
We need refrigerators that clean themselves, automatically disposing of expired foods. And then generating a shopping list and sending it to our phones.
Or better yet, robots that meal plan and cook what’s in the refrigerator so that very little goes to waste. People in India are starving and this could solve it.
bkmk Steve Wozniak re AI
I suspect that humanity never stopped eating from the tree of the *knowledge* of good and evil. Oh sure, Adam and Eve got the boot from the garden, but that was so they wouldn’t get their hands on the tree of life and eat from it and live forever.
Under the circumstances, it makes sense:
People just can’t resist discovering how something can be used for evil. I mean its one thing to be situationally aware, but another to feast like kings on what the Dark Side has to offer, even to get ideas from that camp (you are what you eat).
Take a garden tool like a shovel, for example. A simple farmer sees it for all the good it can do, for digging and making planting holes, and for all kinds of projects to make his land a better place.. even for whacking varmints when necessary.
It’s not even natural for him to consider that he could murder someone with it. In fact, he’s more concerned about accidentally injuring a curious chicken that might sneak up while he’s working.
It’s like that.
“Oh, puhleeze. This is either “give me 6 months to make something better” or; “let’s offshore this” (like with gain of function engineering).“
We cannot allow an AI gap! You are right, if it’s geared back here someone else will continue the work elsewhere. I’d be curious to know how much Pentagon dark money is being spent to develop our own Skynet. Too late now to get the genie back in the bottle.
“MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will be required as they permeate all of Russian society, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday.
“The work should continue; this is the progress of humankind,” Peskov said, commenting on a public post on the website of the Future of Life organization, calling to suspend education in neural networks. “Regulation will definitely be needed as AI will expand its presence in the economy, in the daily life of people,” he noted.
A group consisting of Sberbank CEO Herman Gref, chief executive of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev, as well as different agencies and companies is dealing with AI development in Russia, Peskov said. “Gradual efforts are underway to develop AI and use developments already available in the economy. The President has repeatedly underscored the importance of this area of activities and the need to continue them, so as to prevent Russia from falling behind other countries,” the Kremlin Spokesman said. “This work will continue,” he added.”
It’s hard concept to understand and I don’t pretend to understand completely, what happens when the machine can control itself and counters anything man can do.
If you want to go off the deep end, read up on the concept of transhumanism and reaching singularity.
At the rate this technology is advancing achieving singularity might be much closer than we imagine.
How will the Fedderman body double ever be finished now?
The goal is to have computers create computers. Then it is all over for humans having control, except by turning off all computers.
You are either being sarcastic or believe AI is God.
A ban on development? How do they expect that to happen?
Here comes Cyberdyne Systems
Are the Chinese going to stop ? No. They will double down. Triple down.
Neither.
Well the comment about developing as fast as possible because we are in the end time, was a little sarcastic. But it’s not like we are going to stop the end times by development, and we probably aren’t going to accelerate it either. So I really would like to see how far we can get before Judgement Day.
As far as the development of cheap general purpose robots, it’s a lifelong dream. Robots could free people to have more free time, and to live in cleaner environments, eating healthier. And they would be great care for the elderly.
“ Then it is all over for humans having control, except by turning off all computers.”
And you think they will let us ?
AI is the new Golden Calf.
“ Here comes Cyberdyne Systems‘
Life imitates art.
Savonarola all over again?
AMERICAN OFFICER 2023: I was just following orders from "StaffAI".
Seems far-fetched.
Doesn't it.
Doesn't it?
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