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🤔 How concerned should we be about AI?
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🤔 How concerned should we be about AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing at an unprecedented pace, with newer and more advanced models emerging regularly. These AI models show great potential in various sectors including but not limited to text and image generation, coding, IoT collaboration, and speech recognition. However, they also present substantial challenges such as biases, hallucination, high training costs, carbon footprints, and potential misuse.
Investment in AI is booming with private companies and governments recognizing the significance of AI. For instance, PwC plans to invest $1 billion in expanding its AI capabilities, and Accenture and Salesforce are collaborating to offer AI tools for customer relationship management. Additionally, Data firm PitchBook found that venture capitalists invested $1.7 billion into generative AI startups in the first quarter of the year, with another $10.68 billion in deals announced but not yet disbursed during the quarter. On another note, the U.S. Department of Defense requested $1.1 billion for nonclassified AI-specific research for the fiscal year 2023, up 26.4 percent from 2022 funding, venture capitalists are heavily investing in generative AI startups.
Despite the enthusiasm for AI's potential, it's imperative to consider its ethical implications and the influence of a small number of private sector entities on AI's development. Last week, Geoffrey Hinton known as the "Godfather of AI,", a doctor who has nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT., quit his position to freely be able to express his concerns about AI as he now worries it will cause serious harm.
Even Deepak Chopra has expressed concerns about AI surpassing human intelligence, leading to potential misuse like autonomous weapons deployment. However, he emphasizes that AI is not conscious and cannot replace human experience and awareness.
Similarly, Catherine Wood, founder of ARK Investment Management, believes that AI is transformative and will revolutionize various industries such as healthcare, transportation, and finance. She predicts that AI will enable autonomous vehicles, empower personalized healthcare, and aid in financial fraud prevention. However, she also acknowledges AI's limitations and risks, such as biases, ethical concerns, and potential job displacement. She, therefore, recommends the development of ethical AI frameworks.
Comparisons have been made by Warren Buffett and Albert Einstein between the rise of AI and the creation of nuclear weapons due to their destructive potential.
In conclusion, the rapid growth of AI is undeniable, and its potential benefits are vast. However, it's essential to address the associated risks and ethical implications. AI should serve as a tool to enhance human capabilities, not replace them. The development of ethical AI frameworks is critical to guide this technology's growth and mitigate its potential misuse. We must remain vigilant, ensuring that AI does not concentrate power in the hands of a few and that its development does not outstrip our ability to manage and regulate it responsibly.
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Superintelligence - by Nick Bostrom argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, this new superintelligence could replace humans as the dominant lifeform on Earth.
Life 3.0 - Explores the societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI), its impact on the future of life on Earth and beyond, and strategies to maximize the chances of a positive outcome.
Human Compatibility - Delves into the risks and control problems posed by advanced AI, criticizes the standard model of AI development and proposes a new approach focused on AI's deference to humans and understanding of human values.
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future - presents a roadmap to our present and future in the age of AI, exploring how it's transforming human society, our relationships with knowledge, politics, and the societies we live in.
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Thank you for a really great article again Yaro but the more I listen to the building views online about this topic, the more I feel that firstly, there is a lot of unnecessary panic from the 'general public' on this who cannot, or do not want to, see the bigger picture, or a bright new future for our world. And in some business camps there seems to me to be outright hostility for it. But is that possibly because THEY didn't think of it first for themselves and so won't be raking in more millions to add to their own coffers or be able to keep 'Jo Public' under 'their' control by having monopolies on it??
Whilst I have respect for Deepak Chopra, I am not sure how 'even' him commenting on the possible adverse effects of AI really has any impact on the future outcome. Other than being very wealthy, and possibly being able to invest in it, what does he have to do with AI? Robots are robots and humans are human. And why would robots want consciousness?? Many humans on this planet are rarely conscious it seems to me, and look at the damage some of them do! Once again, its another celebrity who espouses to do much for humanity and charity, and he probably does, however, the people that he newly sponsors or employ see nothing in absolutely bombarding you 24/7 with sales emails to buy their books and courses etc; if you so much as show interest or give your email to hear a video. All driven by his ethos and company to make more money I can only think. That to me feels robotic and very unconscious.
As for Nick Bostrum, after seeing and listening to him on one of Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk older Podcast's this last week, I would honestly be grateful if there was a 'superintelligence' robot to replace him. At least they might have some personality, smile, laugh or get jokes! :) I'm not surprised he wrote such a downer book. Clever man, but boy he needs to get out more!
I am old enough to remember all of the same old doubts, comments, fear and panic when the internet was birthed and started to rise up and look at where we are now? Look at the wealth of employment that has brought and continues to create. What would, could we do without it now?? Yes, there are elements of wrong about the internet but there is a hell of a lot right with it and I suspect that's what will happen with AI. In my very humble, nobody rich or famous, opinion.
Once again this negative rhetoric about AI, instead of seeing the good or celebrating something WE humans have actually done as being fantastic, is yet another campaign to instil fear and panic in to ill advised, every day good people, whom, if they were actively involved and allowed, or encouraged to have the autonomy to help develop this fantastic future that mankind can have with AI, then WE / THEY could collectively ensure that the power was not allowed to be in the hands of the few, just as everything currently is, and it's time for the every day conscious human being, to have a say.
Other than that I love your posts and thank you for the time taken to compose them.