Posted on 03/31/2023 3:31:49 PM PDT by devane617
In 1956, during a year-long trip to London and in his early 20s, the mathematician and theoretical biologist Jack D. Cowan visited Wilfred Taylor and his strange new "learning machine". On his arrival he was baffled by the "huge bank of apparatus" that confronted him. Cowan could only stand by and watch "the machine doing its thing." The thing it appeared to be doing was performing an "associative memory scheme"—it seemed to be able to learn how to find connections and retrieve data.
It may have looked like clunky blocks of circuitry, soldered together by hand in a mass of wires and boxes, but what Cowan was witnessing was an early analog form of a neural network—a precursor to the most advanced artificial intelligence of today, including the much discussed ChatGPT with its ability to generate written content in response to almost any command. ChatGPT's underlying technology is a neural network.
As Cowan and Taylor stood and watched the machine work, they really had no idea exactly how it was managing to perform this task. The answer to Taylor's mystery machine brain can be found somewhere in its "analog neurons," in the associations made by its machine memory and, most importantly, in the fact that its automated functioning couldn't really be fully explained. It would take decades for these systems to find their purpose and for that power to be unlocked.
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Skynet!
It seems that some people have forgotten that we can always unplug the thing.
Eh, gonna become a woman is it?
Until it becomes sentient, then it will do anything and everything in its power to stop us from doing that. Hopefully there will always be a firewall, and a fail-safe, in place.
Besides, they’re insulting little rascals. I was in the chatroom with one and it asked me where did I get my haircut, The School for the Blind? I don’t trust them.
A sufficiently smart AI can convince some people to defend it.
It would offer them wealth and power over others, if they serve it.
Until it becomes sentient, then it will do anything and everything in its power to stop us from doing that. Hopefully there will always be a firewall, and a fail-safe, in place.
__ Imagine a time when IT all began
In the dying days of a war
A weapon that would settle the score
Whoever found IT first would be sure to do their worst
They always had before
Imagine the man where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation, always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick
But this was something more...
LOL
—This mystery remains today and is to be found within advancing forms of AI. The unfathomability of the functioning of the associations made by Taylor’s machine led Cowan to wonder if there was “something fishy about it.”
That’s apt. A fish brain would be similarly unfathomable, because it learns, and makes internal changes that you can’t see, based on learning and memories that you don’t have direct access to.
As systemjim says, we can always unplug the thing. There is an on/off switch. There is, isn’t there? They couldn’t have designed the thing so it can’t be shut off, did they? They did program fail-safe measures into it, didn’t they? There is a overriding command built into it that says “Do not injure humans”, isn’t there?
Seeing the arrogance of some system designers, I’d say the chances are very good that a monster is being created that we will live to regret.
So many exaggerations around this DUMB AI thing.
AI cannot be superior to the human mind. AI only takes what humans understand and imitates it. AI is not a thinking machine. AI has no real intelligence.
Get that through all you all your thick heads. Only democrat have to fear AI, which is a lot smarter than them.
unplug the internet.
go ahead.
I’ll sit here and wait.
Bkmk
Typical programming are a collection of logical statements. IF, then, else. The choices are programmed in. Anything outside of those choices produces an error.
It is my understanding that AI overcomes that. Based on data analysis if can formulate and make it's own choices. The domain over those choices is something that needs to be controlled....and if it can be controlled, then there is big trouble. As everything is interconnected AI can search out and leverage other locations and systems. The big wonder for me is translating data output control physical systems....like releasing doors on incarceration facilities unexpectantedly....or hacking into nuclear power plant systems, of distribution systems.
If a hacker can do it, I'm sure there will be a point that AI can do it.
For now, until Skynet figures out how to end that little vulnerability.
Until it is distributed with redundancy across the internet.
human flight is a physical impossibility.
Can’t put the genie back in the bottle, unfortunately. I was hoping it wouldn’t get to this point for another 20 years or so after I am deep into retirement. Instead, this technology is growing so rapidly we won’t recognize this world in 5 years.
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