This is, indeed, terrifying. Unfortunately, the genie has been released from the lamp. There are AI experts like the ones you mentioned who have warned us. There are AI industry “good guys” who are willing to be regulated. But, assuredly, there are rogue operators who have this technology and we won’t know who they are until it’s too late. Wow! And to think a couple of decades ago, we were so worried about a few devices we called weapons of mass destruction that we were willing to go to war over it.
I often think of the Thornton Wilder play, The Skin of Our Teeth, when I see humans constantly facing their end as a species one way or another, and how we squeaked by. If AI is a black box, so is Homo sapiens. Think of all the crappy-terrific things we’ve done. I remain optimistic we can do it again, and that terrific wins out.
Wonderful exposition and warning. Decades ago I played around on my computer with the simplest neural net work models all baed on simple probabilities at the nodes. They worked beautifully but I quickly became aware of the black box problem Multiply the number of nodes and probabilities and you won't know, just like with the human brain how it actually came up with what it came up with. Which seemed a little scary at the time ...just like the human brain seemed a little scary at the time....
There is a short story by Harlan Ellison called "I have no mouth, and I must scream" that made me stop reading horror as a youngster. We already know the end to this story -- so does AI.
This is, indeed, terrifying. Unfortunately, the genie has been released from the lamp. There are AI experts like the ones you mentioned who have warned us. There are AI industry “good guys” who are willing to be regulated. But, assuredly, there are rogue operators who have this technology and we won’t know who they are until it’s too late. Wow! And to think a couple of decades ago, we were so worried about a few devices we called weapons of mass destruction that we were willing to go to war over it.
I often think of the Thornton Wilder play, The Skin of Our Teeth, when I see humans constantly facing their end as a species one way or another, and how we squeaked by. If AI is a black box, so is Homo sapiens. Think of all the crappy-terrific things we’ve done. I remain optimistic we can do it again, and that terrific wins out.
Optimism is a mind-set worth aspiring to. . . thank you for that. It’s a commodity in short supply these days.
Wonderful exposition and warning. Decades ago I played around on my computer with the simplest neural net work models all baed on simple probabilities at the nodes. They worked beautifully but I quickly became aware of the black box problem Multiply the number of nodes and probabilities and you won't know, just like with the human brain how it actually came up with what it came up with. Which seemed a little scary at the time ...just like the human brain seemed a little scary at the time....
Wow. Talk about being ahead of your time!
There is a short story by Harlan Ellison called "I have no mouth, and I must scream" that made me stop reading horror as a youngster. We already know the end to this story -- so does AI.
I think being horrified is good. It focuses the mind on what to do about it.