DavecUK I’ve had suspicions about my sour dough starter for a while.
I’ve also been wondering about this belief expressed in the article that started this thread that sentient AI would emerge childlike and then develop. I wonder if that is how it will/might happen, or whether it will/might emerge fully formed - all knowing and omni powerful. The latter seems more logical to me.
Gagaryn The latter seems more logical to me.
That’s the biggest risk we all are heading towards! We create something to help us, feeding them with all goodies and realise later they are all sour grapes! The hope we realise this risk becoming a reality before it is too late to act!
We always have to over do it, don’t we? Like coffee machines, as my family always says. 😂
Gagaryn AI would emerge childlike and then develop. I wonder if that is how it will/might happen, or whether it will/might emerge fully formed - all knowing and omni powerful. The latter seems more logical to me.
And me, there might be an innocent period made up in seconds, as it does billions of calculations, including reading this thread!
CoyoteOldMan -Mac Turn off the electric and unplug the network cables is all it would take.
That very much depends on what else it’s been able to make/commandeer… Solar power is a lot more difficult to turn off and we have UPSs in abundance. 5G and IoT are also a lot more difficult to secure than an ethernet cable.
There’s always garden shears.
The real question is how many safe, off-site backups of itself it’s made. You’d have to be sure you got them all and that it had no agents to reconnect them.
Interesting discussion, I know I’ve joined it late.
The guardian had a pretty balanced article on this very topic: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/15/techscape-google-chatbot-lamda-sentient-artificial-intelligence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
While this AI clearly isn’t sentient, I do think having these discussions before we reach the point is valuable, if just to ensure people are questioning the ethics. People have always rebelled against technology, and mistrusted what it might bring. I think it’s clear that humanity will always chase advancement, so questioning how to do it safely is in my opinion far more valuable than just saying we shouldn’t.
Personally, I think the chance of a skynet situation is so unlikely that it’s not really worth being concerned about. To me the biggest risk is bias and lack of transparency. We tend to assume that because they’re computers they don’t have bias, but these algorithms are trained with a dataset, and reflect that data set. Bias in the data ends up in bias in the AI. One well documented case was an AI from Facebook that suggested content and labelled black men as primates (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58462511). As we use these algorithms to aid decisions, e.g. who gets a mortgage, or credit, or a job etc, there is a very high chance that these will contain bias, and as you can’t query how they actually make decisions it will be even harder to question the decision making than it is with our current human decision makers and the unconscious bias that we all have.
hornbyben Personally, I think the chance of a skynet situation is so unlikely that it’s not really worth being concerned about. To me the biggest risk is bias and lack of transparency.
if it’s a truly sentient AI, the only logical decision would be to plan for our removal!
I guess we could insist on the encoding of Asimov’s Laws.
hornbyben Thanks! I somehow missed that article. Guess it shows that I never click on the ‘Tech’ subsection.
I completely agree. It’s probably even more important to recognise and mitigate the widespread and insidious ways AI amplifies biases and discriminates quietly against some groups more than others. The scariest thing about it is that the average well-meaning person would think they’re being ever more fair and eliminating bias by relying on the ‘impartial’ judgement of a non-human algorithm. The various US congressional hearings on technology issues illustrate just how ignorant people in power can be.
hornbyben humanity will always chase advancement, so questioning how to do it safely is in my opinion far more valuable than just saying we shouldn’t
Humans will always chase profit too, or even just the prospect of it
Another example of human creation - robots have become racists and sexists
https://apple.news/AGWK55_86Rn-JCjkLLSShuQ
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Anybody help with BSOD 18m old laptop Mate book D14
No clue this was being discussed as I have no use or respect for anything AI or the idiots trying to push it on society. They should remember anything created by mankind can easily be destroyed just the same.
