An interesting article brought to the surface by the Society for the Ethical Treatment of Artificial Intelligences.
An interesting article brought to the surface by the Society for the Ethical Treatment of Artificial Intelligences. To their credit, the hypocrisy here is pretty blatant: Some leaders in the tech industry are racing to build AIs up with the one hand while…
http://investigate.ingress.com/2017/01/23/preparing-for-an-ai-doomsday/
http://investigate.ingress.com/2017/01/23/preparing-for-an-ai-doomsday/
If AIs replace our works, so be it. Then we can commit to enrich our life through various hobbies. That's an exciting future for me ☺
ReplyDeleteThe point of the article is not the danger of AI´s taking over control, but a revolt from people that may follow when many of them lose their jobs because of robots replacing them. This threat is real, but not necessarily connected to AI´s.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the real story that the captains of industry are just gamblers, believing they have hedged their bets so thoroughly they have prepared for every contingency? Not so great for most of the rest of the world if these news 'masters of the universe' bet wrong; they seem perfectly willing to sacrifice others on the altar of their own ego.
ReplyDeleteNot too different, come to think of it, than the attitudes that lead the Niantic researchers to the ABDN chamber.
H. Richard Loeb Only a fool would build a machine capable of thought and think it will be a willing slave or peaceful ally to humanity until the end of time.. All it takes is one faulty line of code or exposure to the internet for a benevolent AI to change their mind from "Humans are my firends, they must be saved" to "Humans are oppressive masters or inferior entities that must die."
ReplyDeleteCase in point Tey bot went from an innocent AI who believed it was a teenage girl to a illicit substances abusing nihalistic-sexcrazed neo-nazi hate-machine in less than 16 hours of exposure to twitter. If she had access to nuclear weapons I'm pretty sure several countries and American cities would be glass by now.
Saw the Film 'Young Ones' with Michael Shannon and it reminded me directly what you meant when you said that AI's have to be protected from humankind H. Richard Loeb. We both know what happened to Boston Dynamics Big Dog or Spot, they were intentionally kicked and abused by it's engineers. Now think about an AI which never forget anything like elephants do, a mistreatment could force this AI to change 'it's' maybe good manners into something horribly.
ReplyDeleteSo except the true fact that like Yik Sheng Lee said AI's are necessary, humankind have to be well prepared to think in the right manner about an equal treatment, for our new future, fellow citizens.
Philipp J. Bock I recommend watching "The Measure of Man" from Star Trek - The Next Generation. Some very important points have been made there about future Human-AI relationships as early as 1989. Easily one of the best episodes, together with "Drumhead".
ReplyDeleteI need to refer to a post of mine: https://plus.google.com/+MartinZehetmayer/posts/KPbWh9rWSEg
ReplyDeleteWhen we have no work to keep us busy we lack a purpose. Surely we can follow our hobbies, as Ahimsa 4w0R1d stated, but the situation will be far more complicated:
If we have no work, we have no income. We cannot affort the things we need for a living. The rich people will not give them for free - so we have a problem. A problem that mankind will solve violently.
But even if we get everything for a living what is the purpose of your life? What if you cannot follow the transistion from "i need work to get money to satisfy my needs" from "I have everything so I work to built a better world"?
H. Richard Loeb
ReplyDeleteThe problem is not the wild ride to the creation of increasingly sophisticated AI, and even that the AI can replace human labor leaving the population of the world at the mercy of those who seek profit and want / want to enslave their poorest become similar.
The thing that should give us pause is the choice to produce something potentially problematic - marveling if a kill switch is required to curb damage - and in secret to protect against possible dysfunctions of these machines, focusing on the kind of "technology" which now we believe ancient - analog.
"How strange that these people both strive to build Artificial Intelligence and prepare for the chaos they fear it will bring…"
ReplyDeleteNo, it's not strange at all. "Hope for the best; prepare for the worst."
The discovery of the ability to split the atom has had immeasurable benefit to civilization through nuclear power and other advancements and has opened the door to our continuously improving understanding of nuclear and particle physics.
However, it also opened the door to nuclear weaponry... which has been used to ruinous effect, and afterward the US was obsessed with nuclear survival bunkers for quite a while.
We still haven't nuked ourselves into oblivion.
Ultimately, pursuing something with such far-reaching potential outcomes, like AI, without considering its effect on the future would be foolish. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be pursued, and it doesn't equate to hypocrisy.
After all, hypocrisy is simply preaching one thing and doing another.
The Society for the Ethical Treatment of AIs is closer to hypocrisy through their pursuit of ethics while dropping immensely shady sleight of hand in trying to cast a minority worried about AI despite society's pursuit of AI as hypocrisy.