| the-pi-guy said: Lately I've been thinking AI would be best if it was relegated to personal use, ban it for industrial uses. I was always excited for AI growing up, thought it would be cool to have custom stuff being made that could be more personal. But now I'm generally overall concerned. But I do think there are some positive uses. Generating subtitles or even voices for content that will never get translated could be a really good accessibility feature. |
Maybe I should qualify my position by pointing out that I am a proud owner of just about all the dystopian pictures you can probably remember, ranging from Aelita and Metropolis to Fahrenheit 451 (the 1966 version), Solaris (does that count?), Rollerball (both versions), Logan's Run, the entire Mad Max collection, Escape From New York, Escape From L.A., Blade Runner, 1984, the first couple Terminator movies, Robocop (the original), The Running Man, Akira, Total Recall, The Lawnmowerman, Ghost in the Shell, The Truman Show, The Matrix, The 6th Day, Equilibrium, Minority Report, Paycheck, Idiocracy, Wall-E (I think that counts anyway), and the Hunger Games collection. I even have the infamous wannabe-biopunk 1993 Super Mario Bros. live action movie just because. 
Yes, I've always been the optimist you see today. Also a long-time fan of a number of dystopian type shows ranging from Serial Experiments Lain way back in the day to the likes of The Handmaid's Tale, The Last of Us, and Squid Game today. Artificial intelligence has always been the stuff of cartoonish nightmare futures to me, so maybe I approach its advancement in the real world with some negative bias. Still though, my lived experience with it so far just...does nothing to make me more optimistic about it. I worry about things like excessive dependence on technology, widespread internet addiction (especially amongst younger people), and the growing atomization of life. There's much more than just recent advancements in A.I. to all that, obviously, but it's becoming an increasingly significant factor.
The simple fact that I'm a video gamer I think oughtta communicate that I'm not against artificial intelligence as such, I'm just worried about most of the ways I see it being used and the trajectory of those uses that I perceive. I say all of us to really say simply that I kind of agree with your suggestion that maybe we should look into options like banning the industrial use thereof.
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