I think the purpose of AI is to suggest outrageous ideas that no human could get away with suggesting - but first AI has to become established as "all-knowing" and "always correct". Gain a cult-like following, eventually going from "artificial intelligence" to "absolute intelligence", the final arbitrator of all disputes. the final say on every matter.
I think the "AI is dangerous" campaigns are designed to cause people to FEAR AI. To plant the idea into people's minds that AI could become sentient and control our lives... which is by design what it's supposed to do. AI can never become sentient, but we've been programmed to believe that is not only possible, but inevitable. If AI goes "rogue", our overlords have a delightful opportunity for covid-style lockdowns and mandates and restrictions - right out of a dystopian fiction tale. Seems silly now, but not silly when it happens. Just as lockdowns over a cold would have seemed silly in 2010.
AI is not dangerous - it compiles pre-existing information and takes credit itself. It's a sophisticated plagiarizer, stealing the work of people and disguising it as it's own. But since it's not a person, who can make that charge? Any illegal activity done by AI cannot be prosecuted. Are we going to put a computer on trial?
All good points. However, I have uses for AI. It's what we need to automate decentralized production. AI may be designed to destroy society, but it is something fundamental to decentralized society. So, the overlords get what they want, and destroy the centralized society they rule, and I get what I want, and we all want, and enable our personal means of production to be automated and pump out wealth so we can live in inconceivable prosperity in absolute freedom.
Win/win.
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Efficiency and automation are both good for production, but everything comes at a cost.
As AI improves, I wonder if the value of human creativity will diminish, as the arts (writing, art and music) become free and abundant to generate. Perhaps industries that rely on creativity for their business to be profitable may elect the cheaper AI option, over human talent.
My guess is that as AI advances, it will someday be locked up behind a paywall and become more and more expensive to use!
Can't. It's already in the wild. FOSS AI is poised right now to outperform supercomputer based commercial AI products. FOSS AI isn't burdened with horrible overhead, backdoors, surveillance of it's users, and all manner of malicious code. It's far lighter, and shoots straight.
We don't need 'Big AI' anyway. We need little AI that times the roast, waters the garden, feeds the chickens, and etc. That frees humanity to do other productive work while generating wealth from independent means of production. Once we get access to the illimitable resources in space, that will be a route to inconceivable wealth, literally unimaginable.
And there will be no way to send armies after us, no way to make us pay a cut to overlords. We will be absolutely free to do whatever we want, with whatever we want to do it with. Automating production won't be limited to feeding the chickens, but will also involve mining asteroids and fabricating solar panels, for example.
No one will put anything they own themselves behind a paywall. FOSS AI is already in the wild, and it's outcompeting corporate products, running on ordinary laptops.
Centralization cannot compete with decentralization because it is burdened with horrific overhead, and decentralization eliminates parasitic losses. Overlords are the parasites.
Truth.
Yes, self contained production i.e., food being one blessed skew of many - would be powerful. This is what I keep thinking about. In essence, it would be life saving, when it is advanced enough - "we don't need leaders anymore" would really mean what it is saying- therefore all the kinds/queens/politicians/experts etc., become redundant overnight. That future, could be really beautiful. I hope it happens.
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The media is certainly working on that. Today I saw a piece on how does the perfect woman looks like, according to AI. One of the problems is that most people have no idea how AI actually works and take it for granted that it's some form of absolute intelligence.