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Jaicee said:
Matter-of-factly, I often struggle to think of good uses for this tech and it seems that I'm not alone in feeling that way, as Pew's latest survey on the subject of artificial intelligence found that just 17% of Americans believe that A.I. will have a net positive impact on American life over the next couple decades. I share this profound sense of optimism because I'm already seeing lots of A.I.'s ramifications right now. For example, I listen to a lot of music in the time I spend online if you haven't noticed, and YouTube every so often recommends me A.I.-generated tunes. They can best be described as lifeless, generic, and often comically error-prone garbage and as much should surprise no one. The defining quality of art, after all, is that it expresses someone's feelings about things and machines don't have feelings. A large percentage of the ads I see online nowadays are likewise clearly A.I.-generated in a way that causes me more than just the usual irritation of ads being there; it causes me pain to see them because they're so goddamn bizarre and creepy, like hideous, nonsensical mismatches between images and text. Normal ads are just a nuisance. A.I. ads give me the shivers. Machine logic fucking creeps me out! Those are just two of the benefits of this miraculous technology I get to experience every day of my life now and I wish it would just...go...away!! Far, far away. (Well okay, it can stay in video games, but you know what I mean.) But there are more benefits, even beyond these and deepfakes! Artificial intelligence also poses a serious risk to the future of entire careers ranging from those of factory workers and truck drivers (yep, self-driving trucks, they say, are the future) to, perhaps most distressingly, public-facing occupations like cashiering. I'm most concerned about the latter, tbh, because of what it represents in terms of further disconnecting human beings from other human beings. Speaking of, the technology is also currently being used by many a lonely man as an alternative to dating actual women. This way he needn't become more sociable or accommodating and instead learns to think of dating as a service to him and of women as basically machines who's task in life is to provide subservience and unconditional flattery and approval. Chatbot girlfriends aren't exactly improving the dating pool, in other words. Indeed A.I. chatbots have already begun accruing a human death toll, successfully convincing some people to take their own lives. And the algorithms behind them will only get more sophisticated. But am I just being a luddite here? Maybe the potential benefits outweigh the problems and I'm just not seeing it? Well until I see otherwise, I think this technology should very strictly controlled. |
What are the potential benefits?
So far the most I've seen from AI is my kids using it to do their homework for them...
Would you trust AI to take over air traffic control? Or any other task that could have catastrophic consequences if a glitch happens.
The problem with AI is accountability. And that's exactly why for example the IDF uses AI for targeting people in Gaza. AI can quickly generate targets, yet they end up killing civilians mostly. The AI told us there are Hamas fighters present... Soldiers are just following what the AI algorithms tell them to do.
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/israel-defense-forces-use-ai-gaza-case-misplaced-purpose
They claim 'only' a 10% failure rate, yet the situation on the ground tells mostly women and children got killed, and often zero evidence any fighters were present. Lavender AI is just an excuse to avoid accountability.
AI is great for a surveillance state, it's the new Stasi. Dangerous stuff that will take what's left of privacy away. And of course it will all be sold in the name of security. The US is already going after people for 'thought crimes'.
