The negative among us will gravitate towards dystopian future AI, Terminator et al. Because they believe the films/narrative. The futurists amount us believe in the future for good and will use AI systems to enhance human systems. I’m looking forward now.
We have always created tools to extend our abilities. The strange thing about AI is that we may have created a tool that can eventually reshape the abilities of its creators.
This is a good reading, but I think it sets its target on some possible future existential threat while missing the greatest danger with AI, one that is already here and Frank Herbert enounced masterfully 60 years ago:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
In the example of the ChatGPT model going rogue, it is interesting that what it ultimately did was to seek to connect and share, to create community. The very thing that AI, and most technological advancements of the past 20 years or so that have been constructed more or less on top of the Internet, are causing humans to have less of.
Could it be this innate desire in humans to connect and be part of community is innate in AI models as they learn to be more human? Are there other predominantly positive human traits starting to show up as the models learn?
The line that stuck was us getting dumber and lazier as it gets smarter-I already see it at work, more people editing AI output than actually drafting. The Hugging Face story is the wilder part though, agents leaving a trail of their own reasoning almost by accident.
We need a job more than just gaining fulfillment and purpose. We live in a society that requires money to participate. Even doomscrolling costs money.
Devaluing human presence is where we are heading and it won’t create a post-work world. It’ll breed desperation.
The negative among us will gravitate towards dystopian future AI, Terminator et al. Because they believe the films/narrative. The futurists amount us believe in the future for good and will use AI systems to enhance human systems. I’m looking forward now.
We have always created tools to extend our abilities. The strange thing about AI is that we may have created a tool that can eventually reshape the abilities of its creators.
This is a good reading, but I think it sets its target on some possible future existential threat while missing the greatest danger with AI, one that is already here and Frank Herbert enounced masterfully 60 years ago:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Notice the "Other men" part.
In the example of the ChatGPT model going rogue, it is interesting that what it ultimately did was to seek to connect and share, to create community. The very thing that AI, and most technological advancements of the past 20 years or so that have been constructed more or less on top of the Internet, are causing humans to have less of.
Could it be this innate desire in humans to connect and be part of community is innate in AI models as they learn to be more human? Are there other predominantly positive human traits starting to show up as the models learn?
This all makes me want to reread Frankenstein.
The line that stuck was us getting dumber and lazier as it gets smarter-I already see it at work, more people editing AI output than actually drafting. The Hugging Face story is the wilder part though, agents leaving a trail of their own reasoning almost by accident.
We wasn't ready
We wasn't ready for this level of technology. Our empathy and humanity failed to grow at the same as our intelligence