Who knows, some people I know say AI will be an economic salvation, I am scepticle but my inner Luddite is making me queasy.
Flame away.
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skep·ti·cal
/ˈskeptək(ə)l/
adjective
1.
not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations.
“the public were deeply skeptical about some of the proposals”
I’m thinking of getting a shotgun - to take down drones
Our saving grace is the flawed nature of technology.
AI will never be what people think it will be. Technology never meets expectations.
Do you remember at the dawn on the PC-warnings of madmen building super computers in their garages to threaten earth?
warnings of immense job losses to the computers?
Same old tune. I’m still wondering if the computer chip created or destroyed more jobs.
AI=Anti-INRI
The danger is not that Artificial Intelligence will become self-aware, it can’t.
The danger is people believing that it HAS become sentient and that it is infallible, that its logic is perfect and must be obeyed.
That is when the edicts and decisions from AI will lead to bloodshed.
The machines will never rise up and kill us; they’ll convince us to kill each other.
No flames from here.
Technology has improved out lives greatly.
*Smart* technology is betraying us as it allows government surveillance and control of our lives.
AI?
A whole ‘nother issue itself. Opposing AI does not make one a *luddite*> It makes one wise. This has far too much potential to backfire and destroy mankind.
Not necessarily because the AI will become sentient and decide to eliminate humans by itself, but it’s the human programmers of AI I do not trust.