Why I think fear of AI is way overblown.

[scruffy]

Yeah, they were called Coles Notes in Canada. I used a couple for English class when dealing with Shakespeare

They kinda go in one ear and out the other.

I don't remember any of that stuff. I remember one line from Shakespeare, "get thee to a nunnery, go". That always cracked me up.

 

[toobfreak]

If AI ever truly became sentient (which I am not certain is possible),

Life is about a matter of degrees.

 

[toobfreak]

The biggest danger with AI is becoming dependent on it.
I mean, you can imagine what would happen if Google suddenly went down and all the school kids had to use the library again.

What's a library? Er, ah, I mean, that is basically like admitting then that AI is for mankind worse than an atom bomb all covered in liquid cocaine and sugar dressed up to look like a 19 year old french whore.

 

[ding]

Life is about a matter of degrees.

Yes, same as consciousness. They go hand in hand. Consciousness at its simplest means to be aware. All living things - to some degree - are aware of their surroundings and respond to their surroundings which is the definition of conscious.

conscious: aware of and responding to one's surroundings; awake.

 

[toobfreak]

Yes, same as consciousness. They go hand in hand.

Mind equals matter.

No consciousness, no matter.

No matter, never mind.

 

[ding]

The biggest danger with AI is becoming dependent on it.

I mean, you can imagine what would happen if Google suddenly went down and all the school kids had to use the library again.

We are already dependent on technology quite a bit. For instance, we are dependent on shipping to make "just in time inventory" work and shipping is quite dependent on technology. There aren't huge stockpiles of anything since the depression. It won't take long for there to be a food and fuel crisis.

The collapse of society is almost inevitable. It's only a question of when. When she blows, it will be quit spectacular and entirely predictable.

 

[ding]

Mind equals matter.

No consciousness, no matter.

No matter, never mind.

"The physical world is entirely abstract and without ‘actuality’ apart from its linkage to consciousness. It is primarily physicists who have expressed most clearly and forthrightly this pervasive relationship between mind and matter, and indeed at times the primacy of mind." Arthur Eddington wrote, “the stuff of the world is mind‑stuff. The mind‑stuff is not spread in space and time." Von Weizsacker stated what he called his “Identity Hypothesis; that consciousness and matter are different aspects of the same reality. In 1952 Wolfgang Pauli said, "the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality -- the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical -- as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously . . . It would be most satisfactory of all if physis and psyche (i.e., matter and mind) could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality."

George Wald

 

[Slyhunter]

Yes. AI is like the Cliff Notes version. Remember those little yellow books? I got busted using them in high school, the teacher goes "you used Cliff notes", I go "how'd you know", and he opens up his desk drawer and he's got like thirty of them in there!

I used to log into CompuServe and used a Lotus news report as my Paper. I had to manually remove all the "tm's" from it.

 

[Zebra]

I don't believe it is irrational fear that is driving concern and resistance to the rapid advancement of AI. Basic education, low level labor and the arts are examples of the AI intrusion. IMO part of being human is hard work, struggle and challenging oneself. Now with advanced AI, that is being replaced with a giant EASY button.

On the job front, AI will create an enormous underclass of people who can't find work as AI driven robots and automation do their jobs faster than humanly possible. Songwriters and authors struggling to write a song or short story will take the easy way out and push the AI button. Those are just some of the many ways AI will affect us.

It isn't an emotional overreaction to be concerned about the AI revolution. It is just recognizing what it WILL do to present and future generations.

I fear you are right