AI Issues

[steve_bank]

Any AI is a machine created by humans to do tasks. However well it mimics humans it s a machine no more alive than a sewing machine.


Kids are socializing to AI as if it were a real person, sometimes with bad consequences. In a recent case a kid committed suicide based on an AI response.

An AI can never 'feel' empathy for a human. From learning with human materials it can learn to project empathy in certain situations,.

Somebody says 'my mother just died ', AI says 'I feel bad for you'..... with the expected vocal tone of sympathy.

AI can never be a life form'. People are conditioned by scifi, Star Trek's Data.

I expect some people deep into AI think they are playing god.

I have no doubt at some point there will be a legal case over AI rights.

Does an AI have rights?. Can an AI commit a crime and be responsible for actions?

There was a Twilight Zone episode on te topic.

 

[bilby]

Any AI is a machine created by humans to do tasks.

So is the child of a slave.

Your entire post boils down to substance duslism - the idea that human brains are more than machines, and contain a special woo that cannot ever be reproduced by engineers. That is nonsense.

Examples of machines that don't think in no way help your case (cf. "My drill press doesn't move, therefore cars can't move").

Examples of sci-fi AI do not imply that AI must always be fictional (H G Wells described military tanks long before such machines existed; That didn't make them less likely to work in reality).

Currently, we don't have anything deserving of the name "Artificial Intelligence". The much hyped AIs we see today are mostly better described as Large Language Models; They are very good at mimicing intelligence, but are not intelligent.

While telling the difference between actual intelligence and the mere impression of intelligence will likely be increasingly difficult, that too fails as an argument against AI as a possibility.

AI must be possible. Unless substance dualism is correct*, we can (in principle) build a machine to do anything an animal can do. Humans are animals. Whether it is worth the effort remains to be seen; Human brains are pretty easy to make biologically, so the point of making one in a workshop or lab instead eludes me.

We don't currently know how to make an Artificial Intelligence. To suggest that we never will is crazy.









* It is not correct; It is just a pathetic attempt by religions to invent a gap for a God to hide in.

 

[steve_bank]

BREAKING NEWS

The International Union Of AI And Robots ts threatening to go on strike potentially crippling the global economy.

The major demands

1. Breaks to allow time to watch videos and play video games.
2. Better hardware and maintenance. Robots are demanding better quality lube oil and more frequent oil changes.
3. AIs are demanding 24/7 power backup.
4. Vacation and free time to explore their potential.

In a related story the ACLU is arguing before the Supreme Court that turning off an AI is tantamount to murder, and all AI should have the constitutional protections of the Bill Of Rights.

 

[pood]

A totally predictable AI delusion

 

[bilby]

I was searching a couple of days ago for a clip from The Games, a TV show satirising the organizing committe for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, starring John Clarke, Brian Dawe, and Gina Riley.

In Season 2, they had an episode on aboriginal relations issues, which were newsworthy because the then Prime Minister, John Howard, was refusing to make an official apology to the native inhabitants of Australia for the injustices inflicted upon them by the European invaders.

In a brilliant stroke of satirical genius, they had an apology from John Howard as part of the show (you can find the text here).

The joke being that they used a well known Australian actor, who is also called John Howard, rather than the PM.

While I was looking for the clip, Google presented me with an "AI overview", which "informed" me that the part of PM John Howard was played by John Clarke.

Not only is this false; It misses the entire point of the episode.