[ExI] Is AI about to take off fast?

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat



 

>…People keep promising massive civil unrest.  Now that conditions are here which should generate it, I'm seeing a lot of nothing on that front.  …

 

 

The protest signs would be incomprehensible:

 

Stop the Singularity

No AI in Our Schools

Carbon Based Intelligence Only

Rage Against the MACHINE

What do we want?  We don’t really know!  When do we want it?  We don’t know that either!

 

Before civil unrest can possibly mean anything, it needs focus.  We have had over 3 decades, and we don’t know what is the focus either.  Imagine how puzzling this is to people who learned about AI for the first time from then VPOTUS and AI czar, who made a speech on it in July 2023:

 

“I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing  First of all, it’s two letters. It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is, is it’s about machine learning.  And so, the machine is taught — and part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine — and we can predict then, if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process.”

 

OK.  Suppose a civil restless refers to that speech, knowing nothing else about AI.  What will she put on her protest sign?  How about;

 

No Fancy Things

More than Two Letters!

Teach Machines the TRUTH

 

Well, what then?

 

spike

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