My friends and I do not think AI is dangerous at all
Posted on 05/03/2023 5:50:10 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
so-called AI such as ChatGPT are simply search engines that comb wiki, lexisnexis and a plethora of public internet sources and regurgitate what they find ... since 99% of such sources are grossly biased to the left, search AI regurgitates leftist tropes ... this is all just another form of garbage-in-garbage-out ...
true AI would create and invent inventions and mathematics and concepts unthought of by human intelligence ...
If you ask the right questions, it's quite remarkable. I have used it in writing some VBA routines for Excel for analyzing stocks and markets and it has allowed me to do in a few hours what used to take me a few weeks.
“I have used it in writing some VBA routines for Excel for analyzing stocks and markets and it has allowed me to do in a few hours what used to take me a few weeks.”
interesting ...
I speculate that there are two main groups who are worried about AI: materialists and spiritualists.
Materialists explain the mind in purely material terms and so they logically suppose that it would be possible to build a machine with actual consciousness. This group is heavily comprised of agnostics and atheists and therefore leftists.
Then on the other end are the spiritualists, who think complex electronic systems can become imbued with demonic influence. They tend to be religious people, a large slice of whom envision large scale AI playing a role in the control systems of a satanic future world government.
In this pattern there is the potential for convergence across the ideological spectrum similar to what you might see in, say, fears about the food supply. Left-wingers have deep worries about big corporate players like Monsanto poisoning the world with their GMO crops. And on the right similar views animate the patriotic prepper and back-to-basics crowds.
This “consensus of worry” may create an unusually high demand for government oversight over AI resulting in a high level of curbing legislation and regulatory action, plus a generally high level of societal attention paid to the issue.
And of course those Terminator movies have got SkyNet in the back of everybody’s minds too lol. We probably have prime conditions for a bumper crop of dystopian AI themed screenplays sweeping through Hollywood and deluging us with Terminator reboots and knockoffs in the near future...
When you mention government oversight, I naturally get nervous.
Can you imagine anything good coming from government involvement with something as potentially life-altering as AI?
Well the government is great at screwing things up but I suspect that once AI is out of the bottle, the government isn’t going to be able to do much about it. I also think AI is much less of a threat than some people foresee it to be, precisely because it can never be truly intelligent IMO. It will never possess intentionality and creativity and therefore will never be more than a tool, which means that any risks that it poses won’t amount to a profound new kind of evil but rather just a new facet of the old, standard evil, which is to say human nature.
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