Fascinating read Steve and a topic(s) i follow both in a questioning and frustrating manner. The AI thing is well beyond my comprehension; while trump's chaotic leadership style is embedded in my algorithms.
Yesterday in Adam Tooze's free substack, he had this clip regarding AI: "As a New York Times column put it: “AI populism is here. And no one is ready.” A decade ago, when the likes of Elon Musk and Sam Altman were still passionate advocates of heavily regulated ethical AI (ha!), the technology’s most widely discussed downside had an apocalyptic glamour: superintelligent AI could one day destroy the human race. But since Altman’s company OpenAI released its large language model ChatGPT in November 2022, AI’s public image has fallen to earth: it’s now widely seen as a job crusher, a fact mangler, a slop maker, a privacy invader, a climate trasher and a general pain in the neck. Never before has a new technology been rammed down our throats with such speed, determination and complete disregard for public opinion."
In the next paragraph he added this from Cory Doctorow's book Enshittification:"The Silicon Valley oligarchs telling us that AI will change the world are the last people we trust to change the world for the better. As a technology, AI has pros and cons; as a rushed project of rapacious elites, it is transparently obscene.
AI has its use cases. They are narrow and focused and within those use cases it can be used to good effect. Think health, DNA research, safety systems, navigation, production, logistics. Outside of that as a general “helper” or “friend” or psychoanalyst, it’s terrible and destructive. I believe it always will be, even if the holy grail of AGI is achieved. Only humans can be friends (or dogs).
I take a more simplistic view of AI. In the early days of social media, many saw it as the layman's opportunity to tell their story, now it has become a virtual cesspool of crap. Will AI be any different? Probably, because it will be 100 times more potentially destructive.
"The Creator" from a couple of years back is one of the few pro-AI films that I remember watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAZuGdi32bk
Give it a spin - I think you'll enjoy it.
That movie was crazy. Nuts, even. I think I saw Dick Cheney's face on the USS Nomad. (Shout out to the Star Trek reference!)
Fascinating read Steve and a topic(s) i follow both in a questioning and frustrating manner. The AI thing is well beyond my comprehension; while trump's chaotic leadership style is embedded in my algorithms.
Yesterday in Adam Tooze's free substack, he had this clip regarding AI: "As a New York Times column put it: “AI populism is here. And no one is ready.” A decade ago, when the likes of Elon Musk and Sam Altman were still passionate advocates of heavily regulated ethical AI (ha!), the technology’s most widely discussed downside had an apocalyptic glamour: superintelligent AI could one day destroy the human race. But since Altman’s company OpenAI released its large language model ChatGPT in November 2022, AI’s public image has fallen to earth: it’s now widely seen as a job crusher, a fact mangler, a slop maker, a privacy invader, a climate trasher and a general pain in the neck. Never before has a new technology been rammed down our throats with such speed, determination and complete disregard for public opinion."
In the next paragraph he added this from Cory Doctorow's book Enshittification:"The Silicon Valley oligarchs telling us that AI will change the world are the last people we trust to change the world for the better. As a technology, AI has pros and cons; as a rushed project of rapacious elites, it is transparently obscene.
Thanks for adding to what little i know about AI.
AI has its use cases. They are narrow and focused and within those use cases it can be used to good effect. Think health, DNA research, safety systems, navigation, production, logistics. Outside of that as a general “helper” or “friend” or psychoanalyst, it’s terrible and destructive. I believe it always will be, even if the holy grail of AGI is achieved. Only humans can be friends (or dogs).
I take a more simplistic view of AI. In the early days of social media, many saw it as the layman's opportunity to tell their story, now it has become a virtual cesspool of crap. Will AI be any different? Probably, because it will be 100 times more potentially destructive.