Both have always made more practical sense to me than any form of "sky daddy" (unseen total surveillance / gnostic panopticon ... aka "Big (Br)Other") worship.ancient forms of sun worship and fertility rites of paganism — Jack Cummins
I don't understand your question.How may this be established clearly and, is it fettered by the sentient aspects of human perception and thinking?. — Jack Cummins
Insofar as one wishes to avoid an anthropmorphic fallacy, I'm suggesting that "aspects of folk wisdom" are unwarranted and irrelevant to the topic of artificial intelligence. — 180 Proof
Part of the problem of anthromorphism comes from an attempt to make the artificial mimic the human in terms of voice and friendly demeanour. It makes the artificial seductive as a way of replacing humans with the artificial. This may leave people as jobless and isolated in a world of machines. The artificial may benefit the wealthy but cast many outside the scope of participation into poverty and social limbo gradually. — Jack Cummins
Imo, worst case, smart machines can't 'enslave exploit and slaughter' any more than we talking primates have done to ourselves (& the nature world) the last ten or so millennia ... — 180 Proof
No doubt this is true of "AI" (such as LLMs, AlphaGo series neural nets, etc) but only will be the case if exponentially self-improving Artificial General Intelligence (A) cannot be engineered and implemented or (B) cannot 'escape' the lab (which will be far less likely when AGI is operational). Otherwise, to wit:AI will always need human intervention in their operations, development and continual existence in the real world. — Corvus
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openais-o3-isnt-agi-yet-but-it-just-did-something-no-other-ai-has-done/You'll know AGI is here when the exercise of creating tasks that are easy for regular humans but hard for AI becomes simply impossible. — François Chollet, author of ARC-AGI and scientist in Google's artificial intelligence unit
(B) cannot 'escape' the lab (which will be far less likely when AGI is operational). Otherwise, to wit:
You'll know AGI is here when the exercise of creating tasks that are easy for regular humans but hard for AI becomes simply impossible.
— François Chollet, author of ARC-AGI and scientist in Google's artificial intelligence unit
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openais-o3-isnt-agi-yet-but-it-just-did-something-no-other-ai-has-done/ — 180 Proof
The theoretical ideal of AI replacing the 'bullshit jobs' seems to be going the other way round mainly. The jobs which many would have done, such as in shops and libraries are being cut down to the minimum with the introduction of automated machines and artificial technology. What remains are high positions, for which there is so much competition or jobs which require so many hours of hard physical labour, such as in warehouses. The introduction of pressures in jobs in relation to pressures and demands because more out of work is leading people to become ill, especially with stress. — Jack Cummins
That is the specific danger and, the question is whether or not humanity itself has reached the level of consciousness and self awareness to unleash the power of the artificial. — Jack Cummins
2020 (re: 2013) - fictionWhat happens in the dialogue between the human and the artificial [ ... ] — Jack Cummins
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