> Social media was the first contact between A.I. and humanity, and humanity lost. First contact has given us the bitter taste of things to come. In social media, primitive A.I. was used not to create content but to curate user-generated content.
I always forget just how utterly wrong the “experts” celebrated by the mass-media tend to be. This statement is patently, utterly wrong — what happened with social media was a demonstration that young, privileged millennial Americans with too much power decided to play for their personal incentives (money, power, etc) rather than what was best for society. It was a silent war between humans.
I want to write a counter point to the idiotic “AI is on the verge of becoming self aware” dystopia nonsense being paraded by so many charlatans in our industry right now, but there just aren’t enough hours in the day for it, and the humans who control the algorithms that determine distribution don’t like me very much. Someone else needs to do it!
#1) The AGI wary are absolutely right to be putting every brake humanly imaginable to progress just out of understanding that they can't stop all instances of enthusiastic people going for it.
#2) the same tendency for said people to go full speed ahead with gratification of their own interests in mind rather than what society is prepared to safely handle. *This is exactly the same phenomena you decry as what afflicted social media. Take note that the central problem exists in the AI space as well.
#3) Yeah. No one wants to be told not to do something.
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I always forget just how utterly wrong the “experts” celebrated by the mass-media tend to be. This statement is patently, utterly wrong — what happened with social media was a demonstration that young, privileged millennial Americans with too much power decided to play for their personal incentives (money, power, etc) rather than what was best for society. It was a silent war between humans.
I want to write a counter point to the idiotic “AI is on the verge of becoming self aware” dystopia nonsense being paraded by so many charlatans in our industry right now, but there just aren’t enough hours in the day for it, and the humans who control the algorithms that determine distribution don’t like me very much. Someone else needs to do it!
#2) the same tendency for said people to go full speed ahead with gratification of their own interests in mind rather than what society is prepared to safely handle. *This is exactly the same phenomena you decry as what afflicted social media. Take note that the central problem exists in the AI space as well.
#3) Yeah. No one wants to be told not to do something.