I just finished reading this amazing book, ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ by Neil Postman that compares both Orwell’s 1984 with Huxley’s Brave New World. His conclusion from the beginning was that Huxley was correct in his prediction of the future and that television is the driving force to make people to be more and more uneducated. This short book was written in 1985 and yet, still stands the test of time. #books#neilpostman#huxley#orwell#bookstodon@bookstodon
If you're worried about #LLM-based #AI, you're focusing on the wrong thing and may lack imagination.
This, and related developments (I can't view them as advancements, knowing how this all will end) are what's going to end the human race as we've known ourselves.
Much good can be derived from technologies like this, but we—being as we are—will ultimately go much to far.
I don't think we're prepared for our instant evolution (and, separately, eventual mechanization).
Abdication of our #human responsibility is the greatest danger of #AI, in all its forms, past, current, and future.
The technology should always be considered and used as #tool wielded by people with rigorous #oversight and limited power.
That won't happen, and we will absolutely live in a world where critical decisions directly and indirectly affecting all but the #elite will be #automated.
...repairing a gene that causes, say #Down's syndrome.
Of, course, you could then argue that the humans "mass-produced" in #Huxley's #BraveNewWorld should be considered androids, too.
The deviding line is maybe becoming more fluent every month.
In essence, IMO, regardless of the material that creates an "artificial person", in particular if that person's genes have been altered so dramatically as to endow her with superhuman abilities,...