Artificial Intelligence: What’s to Fear?
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Artificial Intelligence: What’s to Fear?
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#2> Even lovemaking is at risk, as artificially intelligent robots stand poised to enter the market and provide sexual services and romantic intimacy.
This perfectly encapsulates why I'm so skeptical of AI alarmists. They tend to boil down the human experience to such coarse terms that it undermines their legitimate issues.
> AI is a collection of passive silicon and metal. It does not speak. It has no mind. Like an ocean wave, it forms part of an ordered sequence of passive realities moved by an agency not its own
No, AI is a series of numbers. I just wrote about this misconception the other day [0]. It would be great if people stopped anthropomorphizing AI just because it has the word intelligence in it and humans are said to be intelligent
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Re: Artificial Intelligence: What’s to Fear?
#3> Even lovemaking is at risk, as artificially intelligent robots stand poised to enter the market and provide sexual services and romantic intimacy. This perfectly encapsulates why I'm so skeptical of AI alarmists. They tend to boil down the human experience to such coarse terms that it undermines their legitimate issues. > AI is a collection of passive silicon and metal. It does not speak. It has no mind. Like an oc…
It's a nice dovetail with American prudishness. The same utterance, with only a few words changed, could justify an anti-prostitution stance.
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#4My problem with these articles isn't that they overestimate AI, but that they underestimate humanity. Yes, many millenials have a serious electronics addiction, but many Gen Z kids are really good about managing their screen time, and try to make face-to-face communication happen more and more.
tl;dr: Humanity is really good at adapting to coexist with technology. Stop Panicking.
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#5> Even lovemaking is at risk, as artificially intelligent robots stand poised to enter the market and provide sexual services and romantic intimacy. This perfectly encapsulates why I'm so skeptical of AI alarmists. They tend to boil down the human experience to such coarse terms that it undermines their legitimate issues. > AI is a collection of passive silicon and metal. It does not speak. It has no mind. Like an oc…
It's a nice dovetail with American prudishness. The same utterance, with only a few words changed, could justify an anti-prostitution stance.
Who said anything about prudishness? I'm saying that there is a deeper connection people make with other human beings, rather than some inanimate piece of matter.
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#6This article completely misses what I see as the biggest problem with intelligence in machines: Corporations can use them to be unaccountable. Insider trading? No, that was our "algorithm". Racist policies? Oops, sorry that was just our bot. Inhumane practices? Sorry, we are still "working" on our artificial intelligence since you know it's very difficult.
Where most people see mysterious advanced help in day to day tasks, some corporations are seeing obedient, unaccountable and un-auditable workers. They are already starting to use them to perform their dirty deeds, and hiding behind the black box nature of these complex algorithms.
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#7Yet not only does AI win at cards now, it also creates art, writes poetry, and performs psychotherapy.
Those are shockingly broad claims that are not even close to being accepted by even a minority of people.
Re: Artificial Intelligence: What’s to Fear?
#8> Even lovemaking is at risk, as artificially intelligent robots stand poised to enter the market and provide sexual services and romantic intimacy. This perfectly encapsulates why I'm so skeptical of AI alarmists. They tend to boil down the human experience to such coarse terms that it undermines their legitimate issues. > AI is a collection of passive silicon and metal. It does not speak. It has no mind. Like an oc…
And humans are not just a series of numbers?
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#10Yet not only does AI win at cards now, it also creates art, writes poetry, and performs psychotherapy. Those are shockingly broad claims that are not even close to being accepted by even a minority of people.
AIs can absolutely do all those things. The question is if they can do it well enough to be of any value.