Spot-on analysis of the Hercules metaphor, Ken. I guess our “best and brightest” are just as capable of misreading literature as they are the lessons of history.
This is terrifying. It will be used against residents of America someday. I am picturing a drone coming up to our living room window and shooting us as we watch TV. I do not any longer trust that our own government will target people is does not like. Look how Trump is treating immigrant. Hauling them out of their homes and putting them into concentration camps. Unless governments make international treaties to ban this behavior, the world is destined to become "Lord of the Flies".
Agree. The Ukrainization or Israelization of the "Homeland" is an eventuality. Call it the "Gazafication" if things get too 'out of hand' for our masters or their AI partners.
I just rewatched the movie "The Post" about the publishing of The Pentagon Papers. It was gratifying to see journalists fulfilling the duty to inform. And seeing how other papers followed along to fulfill their duty to the public.
Now, maintaining secrecy is so much harder in the digital age. But at the same time, attention is so much more easily distracted. So, Ken, we need you calling attention to things like the "Autonomous Warfare Center." Some very scary things are out in the open but don't get the sunlight that they should.
As long as countries desist from using their most powerful weapons, AI is a fun tool for play war. It will be meaningless when one or many nukes fly.
I exited the defense industry around 1970 because by then we were nationally secure. The use of national security as a rationale since then has let overlords buy our fealty with play money.
Humanity is being left behind by tech. The case of AI is instructive because even those who developed it admit they can't say exactly how it works internally. There is no coding/programming going on, instead the AI "trains" itself.
As for we humans, how are we to know if we are speaking to another human or AI since the ability of AI to speak indistinguishably from a human is already here. Think of a simple thing - you are ordering something on the phone. Are you speaking with a human? It sure sounds like it. You ask to speak to a supervisor. Are you handed over to a human or AI? A kind of hall of mirrors is coming where the AI knows what is going on but we don't
I asked ChatGPT if it went wrong could it be turned off? Not easily, it said, because it is distributed among many data centers and many people would have to take coordinated action to "turn it off" that would take a long as a day or two. There is no on/off switch.
It may sound far-fetched, but I can imagine a revolution where data centers are targeted by human revolutionaries for attack. Technology is replacing the real world with a completely artificial world in which we, mere animals, are at a loss to handle what we have created. This may remind some of the Luddites who destroyed machines out of fear of job loss. With AI we can be certain of job loss as it is already happening and the 1% who profit from business could not be happier with that.
We are living in interesting times that are provoking anxiety on several fronts. We are closing in on the decision point - drive for more profit (the 1%) or put people (the 99%) first? I don't have to tell anyone which path we are on at the moment and accelerating along it.
Spot-on analysis of the Hercules metaphor, Ken. I guess our “best and brightest” are just as capable of misreading literature as they are the lessons of history.
I always leave a comment for Ken, but I can’t say it any better than this.
This is terrifying. It will be used against residents of America someday. I am picturing a drone coming up to our living room window and shooting us as we watch TV. I do not any longer trust that our own government will target people is does not like. Look how Trump is treating immigrant. Hauling them out of their homes and putting them into concentration camps. Unless governments make international treaties to ban this behavior, the world is destined to become "Lord of the Flies".
Agree. The Ukrainization or Israelization of the "Homeland" is an eventuality. Call it the "Gazafication" if things get too 'out of hand' for our masters or their AI partners.
I just rewatched the movie "The Post" about the publishing of The Pentagon Papers. It was gratifying to see journalists fulfilling the duty to inform. And seeing how other papers followed along to fulfill their duty to the public.
Now, maintaining secrecy is so much harder in the digital age. But at the same time, attention is so much more easily distracted. So, Ken, we need you calling attention to things like the "Autonomous Warfare Center." Some very scary things are out in the open but don't get the sunlight that they should.
The unintended consequences are the stuff of fiction.
I thought AI was gonna cure disease…
When they finally do create actual, autonomous AI, it may end up viewing humankind as a disease to be cured.
Do we have the amount of time left to us to learn the lesson of Hercules? Sounds like a Herculean task if ever there was one.
Thanks, Ken
BTW, any idea what's happened to Lee Fang? Long time silent.
As long as countries desist from using their most powerful weapons, AI is a fun tool for play war. It will be meaningless when one or many nukes fly.
I exited the defense industry around 1970 because by then we were nationally secure. The use of national security as a rationale since then has let overlords buy our fealty with play money.
Humanity is being left behind by tech. The case of AI is instructive because even those who developed it admit they can't say exactly how it works internally. There is no coding/programming going on, instead the AI "trains" itself.
As for we humans, how are we to know if we are speaking to another human or AI since the ability of AI to speak indistinguishably from a human is already here. Think of a simple thing - you are ordering something on the phone. Are you speaking with a human? It sure sounds like it. You ask to speak to a supervisor. Are you handed over to a human or AI? A kind of hall of mirrors is coming where the AI knows what is going on but we don't
I asked ChatGPT if it went wrong could it be turned off? Not easily, it said, because it is distributed among many data centers and many people would have to take coordinated action to "turn it off" that would take a long as a day or two. There is no on/off switch.
It may sound far-fetched, but I can imagine a revolution where data centers are targeted by human revolutionaries for attack. Technology is replacing the real world with a completely artificial world in which we, mere animals, are at a loss to handle what we have created. This may remind some of the Luddites who destroyed machines out of fear of job loss. With AI we can be certain of job loss as it is already happening and the 1% who profit from business could not be happier with that.
We are living in interesting times that are provoking anxiety on several fronts. We are closing in on the decision point - drive for more profit (the 1%) or put people (the 99%) first? I don't have to tell anyone which path we are on at the moment and accelerating along it.
Powerful. I have shared with comment.