It seems there's an acceleration of people working in #tech speaking out or resigning over lack of serious #ethics work while developing #AI (#Hinton). Now #chatGPT linked to #MRI successfully reads thoughts. While the study concludes: "subject cooperation is required both to train and to apply the decoder", we know the pace of #technology means this won't be an obstacle for long. Then what? Is saving 1 person with cerebral injury worth enslaving 1 million? #techethicshttps://www.independent.co.uk/tech/brain-scan-ai-chatgpt-thoughts-b2330628.html
"If AI systems become appreciably better at driving cars than humans are, would it be unethical for people to drive on their own, since this increases the risk of an accident and could cost tens of thousands of lives a year? What if AI was only somewhat better, but in the aggregate would still save thousands of lives a year?"
#AI is a Pandora's box of uncontrolled fuckery. Straight from the lab. Unleashed upon the world and not requiring face masks or hand sanitizer. We always need something bigger than the last Fear. This time we cuddle and hold hands with machine learning before the lights go on and our beer goggles fog up. "Last call for thought control!" the think master shouts out.
Anyone interested in services like #ChatGPT should check out the new #GenerativeAI service released to the public today. It appears to take a different conversational approach to the same chat concept as we've seen before. It's called PI and you can find it at the address below. It has a voice that responds back if you want to turn it on. Four different voices to choose from. As worried as I am, this stuff fascinates me. This thing is free for now.
The human species ought to set some healthy boundaries with "AI" technologies. I'm curious what people think: What would you like the relationship to be between people and computers in the future? What roles / interactions should be human only, if any? What rights should people have regarding how AIs observe, model, and influence them? What responsibilities should the folks who make and use this stuff have to society?
One of the things that always stuns me about these superintelligence believer clowns is that they talk about #AI as if it's some kind of autonomous entity forged in the skull of a few genius men. It's like this dude literally doesn't know about the millions of underpaid and unpaid people whose work and data went into LLMs. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/02/1072528/geoffrey-hinton-google-why-scared-ai/
New thoughts & illustration of mine in Metapsychosis journal:
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In the age of information overload, our guides are curators.
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So many virtual relations, offline. So many real relations, online…
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Even the ritual of turning on our computer every morning, mindfully, can be a form of prayer.
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#AI tools like #GitHub#CoPilot can impressively improve #coding productivity, but before using them, check with your employer/client first! Every client I've reached out to about this has wanted to run it past their legal department first (which is a really smart move on their part!).
DO NOT, under any circumstances, allow these tools to send client/employer data to the AI vendors (which is necessary for their operation) without getting client/employer consent first.
This will be a core tenet of #professionalism for #developers enhancing their services with AI assistants, so best get in the habit now.
I cannot rave enough about the power of using ChatGPT to convert a meeting's transcript to decisions made, action items, and deadlines.
I think you can set up Google Meet to send you a meeting's transcript, but there's also services like Otter.ai that do the same. #ai#chatgpt#automation
Post on https://make.wordpress.org on #AI and #WordPress Core to "build clarity around how Core aims to function while encouraging folks to share what would be helpful for them to integrate AI…”
And so it begins… the great AI job disruption. IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI - See, the thing about #AI is that it will not only replace low-end jobs through smart #robotics and #automation, it will also take high-end professional jobs. Some developers, lawyers and accountants/auditors will also lose their jobs. Pair the low-end job loss with the potential high-end job loss and one has the proverbial perfect storm. Begs the question: who will protect worker’s rights in the process and ensure an equitable redistribution of income? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-pause-hiring-plans-replace-212747073.html
RT @JustineBateman
Watch this #WGA strike carefully.
Understand that our fight is the same fight that is coming to your professional sector next: it’s the devaluing of human effort, skill, and talent in favor of automation and profits. @WGAWest@WGAEast#Humanism#AI
In 1997, Jorn Barger coined the term "web-log" to describe his website "Robot Wisdom," where he logged his journeys around this exciting new digital space called "the web." Two years later, @peterme shortened "web-blog" to "#blog":
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
"#ReverseCentaurs," because they're the inverse of the #AI theorists' idea of a "#centaur," that is, a computer-assisted human. Instead, they are human-assisted computers, with their every last move scripted to the finest degree by #bossware that they have to pay for:
I follow a lot of Tech news and every Nth article now is about AI.
While I get there's a lot of practical applications for it, there's a kind of "Web3.0 Everything is Blockchain" vibe about it.
I don't think AI will implode AS BADLY as Crypto (Blockchain is a stupid idea poorly implemented and AI at least has the potential to be improved) but I think we're in the "bubble" phase of #AI and it's gonna pop.
I'm OLD and remember the dot com boom and this really feels like it all over again.
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/