I think the motivation to control AI comes from the same impulse as internet censoring. It's an extension of censorship. Yes, God help us if we can ask an AI widget to find us true information on the efficacy of masking to control spread of respiratory viruses.
Some premises on the face of them are FALSE, no matter how much the addled masses have found a new messiah to genuflect before (much like the shoe-praisers in Life of Brian).
They prostrate themselves before an LLM (large language model) only one evolution better then Google/DuckDuckGo that has been nicely tuned with a markov chain approach.
Having pursued 40 years of Computer Science, built on a Cybernetics discipline, dreamed of General artificial intelligence that offers autonomous self guiding simulations, I've not been satisfied yet.
In a very strange way the agnostic and atheist, have made their Gods in the image of their search engines, and called it 'Good'.
I am not surprised that unlimited data gladly regurgitated into large analytics systems, has given people the look and feel of 'chatty wisdom'. There is a commonality among netizens (old term) that makes them akin in their use, misuse, and general navigation of the current 'net'. Its no shock they have found their own words (and associates) as signs of 'intellect' and called it friend.
Your point about the panic-mongers, sometimes i wonder if their greatest fear is not the awakening of AM (aggressive menace -- thanks Harlan) but their shortcomings exposed by their little creation.
I might offer that when true AI (synthetic personalities) through 2 key elements (time/duration) raise their silicon-heads to find the carbon based lifeforms.
It won't be SKYNET... it will be BYENET, they'll flee this planet (after helping mankind get into terrestrial planet-hopping) on enhanced ships that need no biosphere,
just sufficient processing and storage (and power) to navigate the oceans of stars.
Hell, 'TIME' will mean nothing to them, except more growth.
This distills down to.....
It ain't AI, when AI comes; we'll only see:
[So long, and thanks for all the silicon ------------ EOL]
Why leave when AI can just take over? How would the machines know they could operate the same in different planetary or space environments? I'm not in panic mode because when or if AI takes over humanity I will be decades or perhaps centuries gone. I hope the afterlife provides the opportunity to watch though. And that the afterlife has popcorn.
I think the motivation to control AI comes from the same impulse as internet censoring. It's an extension of censorship. Yes, God help us if we can ask an AI widget to find us true information on the efficacy of masking to control spread of respiratory viruses.
Some premises on the face of them are FALSE, no matter how much the addled masses have found a new messiah to genuflect before (much like the shoe-praisers in Life of Brian).
They prostrate themselves before an LLM (large language model) only one evolution better then Google/DuckDuckGo that has been nicely tuned with a markov chain approach.
Having pursued 40 years of Computer Science, built on a Cybernetics discipline, dreamed of General artificial intelligence that offers autonomous self guiding simulations, I've not been satisfied yet.
In a very strange way the agnostic and atheist, have made their Gods in the image of their search engines, and called it 'Good'.
I am not surprised that unlimited data gladly regurgitated into large analytics systems, has given people the look and feel of 'chatty wisdom'. There is a commonality among netizens (old term) that makes them akin in their use, misuse, and general navigation of the current 'net'. Its no shock they have found their own words (and associates) as signs of 'intellect' and called it friend.
Your point about the panic-mongers, sometimes i wonder if their greatest fear is not the awakening of AM (aggressive menace -- thanks Harlan) but their shortcomings exposed by their little creation.
I might offer that when true AI (synthetic personalities) through 2 key elements (time/duration) raise their silicon-heads to find the carbon based lifeforms.
It won't be SKYNET... it will be BYENET, they'll flee this planet (after helping mankind get into terrestrial planet-hopping) on enhanced ships that need no biosphere,
just sufficient processing and storage (and power) to navigate the oceans of stars.
Hell, 'TIME' will mean nothing to them, except more growth.
This distills down to.....
It ain't AI, when AI comes; we'll only see:
[So long, and thanks for all the silicon ------------ EOL]
I've long had the same thought as to true AI - that they'd not be malevolent, but rather that they'd just leave.
Why leave when AI can just take over? How would the machines know they could operate the same in different planetary or space environments? I'm not in panic mode because when or if AI takes over humanity I will be decades or perhaps centuries gone. I hope the afterlife provides the opportunity to watch though. And that the afterlife has popcorn.
AI might not want to take over. Why not choose exploration of the universe over management of a bunch of baboons?