Will Artificial Intelligence End Humanity?

Pesala

@Davy49 I think it has already happened. Most Internet users are not fully aware of how their data is being used and manipulated to send them targetted ads.

The mainstream media is already manipulating the population by promoting false agendas that profit their advertisers or owners.

Watch the Ex Machina and The Masseuse to get a vision of what might happen in the not too distant future.

Catweazle

I think AI can be a powerful tool for many tasks, but I see the danger of getting unaccustomed to using our own head, making us more dependent on it.
This happens with all technology, reaching the point of depending almost completely on it, seeing people already unable to write legibly by hand, unable to add three supermarket items without using the calculator, seeing on some sidewalks lanes for mobile users with traffic lights on the ground at the edge of these, to avoid accidents, we even create "art", using AI instead of a brush or pencil, we let the AI create scripts for apps, where in the end no one knows how they work anymore..
If we reach a point where we can no longer survive in cities, if one day the technological infrastructure fails, I think it's time to rethink who dominates whom.

greybeard

@Davy49 @Pesala If you have the time, five half hour episodes Galapagos, from BBC Sounds.

Davy49

@Pesala said in Will Artificial Intelligence End Humanity?:

@Davy49 I think it has already happened. Most Internet users are not fully aware of how their data is being used and manipulated to send them targetted ads.

The mainstream media is already manipulating the population by promoting false agendas that profit their advertisers or owners.

Watch the Ex Machina and The Masseuse to get a vision of what might happen in the not too distant future.

I certainly agree with your comments completely, the artificial intelligence has been used in the background without the 'average' type of user not even realizing it.

sgunhouse

I'm more afraid of the other problem ...

I'm from the end of the generation before calculators. I can easily see how little math people know these days. Can you do square roots with pen/pencil and paper? Can you do long division? Can you even tell if your change is correct, or might the cashier be shorting you?

Now think about AI in that context. If these "chatbots" can write simple reports and even pass the bar exam (that is, law school) then what actual writing skills will students have in 20 years? I might imagine AI ending humanity that way, by dumbing us down to the point we're all mindless sheep.

Of course, I'll probably be dead (of old age) by then.

Pesala

@sgunhouse They teach Alternative Math nowadays.

n3xx

So many other things to worry about before we worry about our complex math equations usurping us.

Pesala

@n3xx Google loves you and others who are not aware of the dangers posed by the misuse of AI.

n3xx

@Pesala Yea, well there are some really smart people that work at google and they work on neural networks so they understand them more than the average person.

cryptonian

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Catweazle

@cryptonian, there are over 1.500 AI apps currently, daily more. AI is here to stay, it depends now on our own intelligence to make the best of this situation, without AI running over us

https://www.futuretools.io

Dr.Flay

A: The fly in the ointment of (so-called) AI is humanity.

The mistakes come when people over estimate what it can do, so lean on it to make decisions.

There has already been issues raised in the past with some US courts using software evolved from the insurance industry to make decisions on the likelihood of someone re-offending or being a bail risk.
The main issue:
Clearly the accused is no longer being judged by their peers, as is required by law.

Machine learning and large language models all start with inherent bias of data in several forms.
Quantity and quality.
The humans tell it which is more "valuable".
Then humans add another layer of filters for setting a task.
This adds some required bias towards the task.
On top of that many systems add human desired outcomes in the form of more filters.
These are cultural and political, and add yet more bias to the system.

Now we ask it a question and hope that all our helpful interference does not conflict with the initial data set.
...Next we wonder why AI is having hallucinations and an existential crisis.

As long as it is a tool used by a human for a task we can control it.
Once we expect it to control human lives we must remember who set that task, for they are the architect of the situation, not the AI.

Pesala

@Dr-Flay said in Will Artificial Intelligence End Humanity?:

Clearly the accused is no longer being judged by their peers, as is required by law.

I think AI can do a much better job than human jurors. It will certainly have a much better knowledge and understanding of the law.

The Asch Conformity Experiments indicate that human beings are heavily influenced by their peers. Half the jury will go along with the most dominant in the group. When only one member still disagrees with the rest, they will give in after being locked in a room with them for a few days, just to get it over with.

AllanH

Mostly unknown today, almost everyone who has seen it considers this to be one of the most underrated and intelligent sci-fi films ever, as well as the most accurate picture of AI.

Colossus: The Forbin Project
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

devenmalik

Recently watched a AI movie. It was scary and made me believe that sooner or later AI's gonna overrule humans

Pesala

AI Text to Video

A new AI product creates video from text input.

Historical footage of California during the gold rush

Who needs to build film sets when AI can do this? Social media sites will need to use software to label these AI videos as “AI generated” since without special software one can no longer tell what is real, and what has been generated by AI.

YouTube Review of Sora AI by Marques Brownlee.

shifte

When I wear this jacket, I feel like I'm a Google's AI ambassador... End my Humanity...

Pathduck

@shifte Is that a misspelling of "AGILE" ?

shifte

@Pathduck said in Will Artificial Intelligence End Humanity?:

@shifte Is that a misspelling of "AGILE" ?

HAHA
I use "nimble". I don't use "agile".
Both mean the same thing for me.
"nimble", "nin(ja)-ble", easy to remenmber for me.

Technob

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