Posted on 05/24/2024 5:37:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz
I'm deeply involved in AI in my current company. While it is not my described role, I feel it is stupid to wait to be assigned a task. I feel it is best to see an opportunity, and seize it. Therefore, I am now my division's AI Advocate.
I recently put together a use-case, ensured it worked, and made it available to the company. During a town hall, I continuously mentioned the use case (in the chat) and got well over 25 requests for more information.
The use-case is how to record a Zoom meeting, how to create a transcript for it, and how to have our in-house AI create summaries of the meeting. It works, and works well, so I produced an instructional video on how to accomplish it. I was noticed by the Associate VP in charge of AI Engineering. I suspect I will transition to his team sometime in 2025.
All this has got me thinking: How will AI transform society? Here are my current predictions.
I also see a long-term extremely dangerous trend: Vast increases in human incompetence. As people are replaced by AI and robotics, how can they hope to retain their skillset in their chosen profession? If there are far fewer software engineers, who will be able to truly assess and proof AI-generated code? If robotic units take over such things as plumbing or welding, how can humans hope to retain skills in these practices? What happens if AI quits on us, and we have billions of people who no longer have the skill to perform their formerly-chosen profession?
I am not considering Superintelligent AI in these predictions. Upon the advent of ASI, all bets are off and we have zero idea how that will unfold.
“use-case”!?
Is that the same as an “application”?
Why do people feel the need to create new words when there already are words for whatever the new word is supposed to refer to?
There it is.
I have a buddy that I talk to regularly. Whatever trendy thing comes down the pike, he’s all over it. I heard about AI from him for a good solid year or so.
For awhile, it was “AI Superpower”.
His latest is “How the World Ends”.
AI depends on the knowledge accumulated by man. Some of that knowledge has been inaccurate and changed upon review by man. Some of those changes declared wrong something that was right. Some were wrong on their own account. There would come a time when AI would have to cease depending on the knowledge accumulated by man because man ceased developing knowledge in favor of AI doing that task. Will AI be able to review that knowledge like man did, to find and correct errors it made? If so, will it keep them accessible or erase them, only to make the errors again?
LOL!
I just use a sledgehammer.
If I had more time I’d have composed better posts.
That comment is inaine....
... ducking
Go ahead, feed all your inhouse meetings to the great AI beast.
It takes a religious crusade to free humanity from "thinking machines". That's why despite Dune being thirty thousand years or so in the future there are NO computers or robots. They're are an abomination against society.
I honestly believe there will be backlash against AI at some point in our future. Maybe not tomorrow or ten years from now but when it begins to encompass EVERYTHING there will be some who rise up religiously against it.
The more I work with AI the more I believe this.
There is some good that comes out of abolishing AI in the Dune books. Without relying on computers as a crutch it forces human minds to develop and grow to take their place. So it is that mentats (human "computers"), the Guild navigators etc come about.
Maybe pulling back on AI in real life will have a similar effect on us.
AI may allow for advanced medical procedures using its ability to consolidate/review vast amounts of data and use, say nanobots, to repair/reconnect nerve endings, muscle, and other flesh. This could allow people to live longer lives It could also allow people with severe trauma to be healed and live long lives. And it could allow bodily transmogrification that we can only imagine today.
People are competitive and the masses need circuses so they say. With more leisure they may engage in more sports. The sports we have today may become boring and something more extreme come to be. Think about the Roman arena or jousting or dueling or Old West style quick draw gun fights, all to the death. Except, think about the first paragraph above, so maybe not to the death. The loser gets fixed up to fight again. Think about the last sentence of the paragraph above…somebody gets to compete transmogrified to a lion or Dire Wolf.
Late-night television, too (note Humorbot 5.0's "David Letterman teeth").
We're sandboxed. I don't understand how they do it but our AI gurus tell me we are 100% secure.
Every 3 to 6 months, I buy a real book, not a kindle to read/underline and highlight.
Below is my newest real book: Bohica* best describes the first 30 pages of this book.
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma
by Mustafa Suleyman (Author), Michael Bhaskar
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 2,025 ratings 3.9 on Goodreads 4,883 ratings
#1 Best Seller in Social Aspects of Technology
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI.
“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”—Yuval Noah Harari
“Essential reading.”—Daniel Kahneman
“An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times.”—Bill Gates
A Best Book of the Year: CNN, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor • Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.
Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy.
None of us are prepared.
As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.
In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.
Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?
AI in politics? It's a shoe in! (as in a shoe in our collective butts...)
Elon Musk (says, at least that he) is working to make a maximally curious, maximally truth-seeking, AI.The legal principle is that official facts are determined by juries. So ultimately a truth-seeking AI must become a prosecutor/plaintiff lawyer and, equally, a defense lawyer.
Stipulating that not every thing that every Republican says is going to be true, Adam Schiff Democrats have no analog in the Republican Party. Unless you count rogues like Liz Cheney or (2012 Republican nominee for POTUS!) Mitt Romney, whom mainstream Republicans repudiate. The reason is of course the fact that the business interest of any journalist favors excitement/fear inducing stories, and such stories need not actually be true.
It occurs to me that Jordan Peterson says a couple of germane things. One is that it is all very well to get all absorbed by the issue of intelligence - but there is such a thing as wisdom - which he says is not only different from, but actually uncorrelated with, IQ. But nobody is explicitly talking about “artificial wisdom.”
Another is that Peterson asserts that
This is somewhat counterintuitive. But since conscientiousness and openness are uncorrelated, I suppose someone like Elon Musk can be very high in both dimensions of personality.
- conscientiousness is highly correlated with conservatism, whereas
- openness/creativity is very highly correlated with opposition to conservatism.
The other three dimensions of personality, BTW, are extroversion, agreeableness, and anxiousness. Seems odd that the “five dimensions of personality,” are all uncorrelated with IQ and with each other, and yet Peterson never suggests how wisdom fits with the “five” personality traits. Does it stand alone, like IQ?
“UBI” would be a misnomer, just UI - to the extent that robots eliminate scarcity, there will be no reason to limit “universal income” to “basics.” Elimination of scarcity would call the very idea of economics - and of money as we know it - into question. But it would seem that, in the industrial age, “plenty” has always been a moving target. People might protest that their own yacht is smaller than that of Bill Gates . . .The fundamental issue of such a future is the theory that it would cause people to deliberately break it just so something unexpected could happen. This issue was identified over a century ago.
In future there might be a Neurolink app for that . . .
No problem! The cure has already been piloted.
Remember COVID? It was in all the papers. People were forbidden to work, how did the rent get paid?
It didn't, by fiat, our betters suspended the need to pay rent at all!
The legal precedent is already in place.
Too bad if you were a landlord, the mortgage payment requirements were still in full force.
Foreclosure for sure.
As someone said, "You will own nothing and be happy..."
Yes.
I am looking for Sarah Conner...
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