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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Max More via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Useful overview of AI progress on Ourworldindata<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/brief-history-of-ai">The brief history of artificial intelligence: The world has changed fast – what might be next? - Our World in Data</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;min-width: 424px' id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly9vdXJ3b3JsZGluZGF0YS5vcmcvYnJpZWYtaGlzdG9yeS1vZi1haQ.."><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border:solid #C8C8C8 1.0pt'><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:9.0pt 27.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><div style='margin-right:9.0pt;overflow:hidden' id=LPImageContainer565706><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/brief-history-of-ai" target="_blank"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=240 height=137 style='width:2.5in;height:1.427in' id=LPThumbnailImageId565706 src="cid:image001.jpg@01D90CA7.A5183880" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;border:none;padding:9.0pt 27.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt' id=LPTitle565706><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif'><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/brief-history-of-ai" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'>The brief history of artificial intelligence: The world has changed fast – what might be next?</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-height: 100px;overflow:hidden' id=LPDescription565706><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#666666'>Since the early days of this history, some computer scientists have strived to make machines as intelligent as humans. The next timeline shows some of the notable artificial intelligence (AI) systems and describes what they were capable of.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=LPMetadata565706><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#A6A6A6'>ourworldindata.org<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the article Max.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Feynman and others who were involved in the atomic bomb wrote memoirs about how they were caught up in the technical and scientific challenge of fission. Then after the Trinity site test, they pondered the ethical challenges of the monster they helped unleash on the world.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have been pondering for decades the use of AI-driven simulated companions for elderly nursing home patients. After fooling around with OpenAI, I came away convinced this technology is good enough to work for that purpose. Then suddenly… I began to wonder about the ethics of that. I was able to sidestep the question before, because I am familiar with nursing homes: most of the patients have no one to talk to at all. The staff is too busy and the other patients have no patience. So… a lonely fade away is all they get.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK then, OpenAI-driven speech synthesizing avatars are good enough now to carry a conversation indefinitely. But for patients not all there, the avatar can fool the interlocutor into believing she is with an actual human. I can lose myself in another technical challenge: making a pair of robot arms which are warmed and built to simulate the human touch, to hold the patient’s hand as she goes gently into that good night. But in so doing, I am making the ethical dilemma worse for myself: I am participating in fooling the patient into believing she is not really dying lonely and forgotten.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Do offer any available insights por favor.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>