Sam Smith -We've had artificial intelligence for decades. We just used people, rather than machines, to create it. Advertising, public relations, political promotion and Fox News are all examples of human techniques used to create words that fool, deceive, or misdirect people. The truth is something that not only requires people as the origin but those who are also capable and willing to distinguish between fact and falsehood,
March 30, 2023
We've had artificial intelligence for decades
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Long ago I heard about Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics which I now believe were merely a ‘feel-good’ ruse because AI (robotics) are programmed by a human. And what we know about ‘humans’ is not comforting, and ‘they’ make the rules (computer programs).
Today, look a Putin and his apparent desire to use nuclear weapons against… Ukraine… the U.S.? He has been quoted in saying he (Russia) has a new weapon capable of destroying any country.
Or the ‘orange-guy’, a myopic individual with perfectly transparent ethics. Or a FL politician trying to compete with him, without the orange guy’s compassion and intellectual curiosity.
And we might look into History to see other authoritarian leaders with similar predilections.
Unfortunately, Asimov’s Robotics laws didn’t think that a programmer under the thumb of a zealous political, corporate, or religious leader might define another person as something other than ‘human’.
As somebody told me: AI is no match against human stupidity.
Could this be the formula? Artificial Intelligence is human Intelligence redirected as Propaganda?
Semper Paratus
I'm sorry if my first post even hinted at a primary goal of AI, or robotics in general. People really should become a skeptic before watching movies like The Terminator and the like.
My comment was a reflection of my own jaundiced view toward people, I guess. It is our own imperfections that allow 'bad' things to happen. Our weakness to vote 'charisma' vs. substance, our desire for shiny objects vs. sublime, and maybe greed that can become our own downfall.
Its difficult to balance everything with a 'counter-weight'. And with AI being something new, its hard to imagine what digital / analog inventions might be able to be developed that could prevent its misuse by anyone. But as human behavior shows, we will use 'things' for profit, or as a tool to get what we desire - ramifications be damned, unless checked.
I think OpenAI, the FTC, and probably others are working to prevent bad things from happening.
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