Mostly like a Google search engine with the ability to put information together into written form. The danger is if the search data is limited only to data from left-wing sources. AI could be used to attempt to influence what people believe.
One recalls that Microsoft had to unplug what became a racist experiment with an AI model. One also notes that AI is being used to fake papers and essays and even legal work, and that AI is also being used to fake voices and videos, such that AI can only progress as does mankind itself. Towards depravity for some, and good for others.
Interesting that so many AI developers seek 1) grants and subsides from government, and 2) legal liability shielding for their "products" when they injure and kill.
Who, or what says AI must know what it's doing before it does it.?? I mean, maybe it could just go ahead do whatever it wants to do anyway.....kinda like Joe Biden.
“Politics” and Law, respond slowly to emergent technology. (...and often, incompetently.)
This is because Politicians mostly have only one “Master-Level” skill: getting elected. Science education and technological competence among the practitioners of Politics and Law is usually severely lacking, or wierdly over-simplified — like the coyote and roadrunner view of physical dynamics.
Regulation will be too slow, and irrelevent as a result.
Nevertheless, “General A.I.” WILL be pursued and developed as fast as is possible by big governments (and maybe small ones), or by well-heeled semi messianiac James Bond villians for thier purposes. It can’t — won’t — be stopped, slowed, or appropriately supervised.
It’ll be interesting to see where this all goes.
I’d say don’t give A.I. unsupervised use of Finance, or Weapons — as a beginning. (As the terrorists taught us, just what a Weapon IS might be a subtle thing.)
Asimov’s Three Laws also seem sensible and appropriate as a starting point.
Who is programming ther AI bias? Is there a man behind the curtain?
“Open the pod bay doors HAL”. 😏
The left is setting up AI as the new left-leaning fact checker...
Many conflate AI to consciousness, it is not consciousness. It is a powerful software tool made possible by the massive computing power now available at low cost. i.e. my home PC has a 24 core processor that can run at 5.8ghz and a GPU with many thousands of small cores, and it is not an extremely expensive PC. I once sold computers and I remember well 512k ram and a single 8-bit core running at less than 5mhz... we have come a long way.
The tool referred to as AI is a game-changing technology. It has similarities with another powerful technology that has been with us for millennia, that technology is written language. Both written language and AI alter man’s relationship to time. Written language allows us to extend our thoughts and ideas into the future, far beyond our lifespan... this is a very, very powerful thing! AI allows us to do things we could do ourselves if we could only live forever... EVERYTHING AI does could be done by a single ordinary man IF he had forever to do it... the man could look at billions of terabytes of data and glean what was needed to arrive at a solution... if only he had the TIME.
The concept of the stored program universal computing machine that was elegantly described for the first time by Alan Turing in his seminal paper published in the 30’s set us up for the eventual appearance of what is referred to now as AI.
Computers allow us to do things we could do ourselves if we just had the time, or could work at incredible speed... this is a wonderful thing.
AI and robotics will someday soon alter the relationship of surgeons with time and allow them to do amazing things that simply cannot be done now because a surgeon can only work so fast and for only so long... a good surgeon could repair what is now considered impossible to repair if he could only work very quickly, at a cellular level and not tire...