What happens if that otherwise perfectly operating AI reaches conclusions and voice opinions that are no more objectively true than the informed judgments of those elites we so readily threw in the garbage years ago (or the inanity of crowdsourced information that replaced them)?
If they do get put into general use, they will never be used consistently. Some folks will neglect to comply or fail to qualify. Some computers will do a good enough job to get them, perhaps with the aid of human accomplices. Just think of the the complexities and nuisance people already experience trying to resolve existing online identity problems, credit card thefts, and medical bill issues. PHCs could make us look back fondly on them.
We can’t explain the how, where, or why of consciousness in fully-formed human beings. So, even if the clumps of brain matter are operating as simple logic gates, who’s to say that some subjective sense of “maybe” might emerge in them along the way?
The conversation about AI is a battle of biases, and its winners are determined by the size of their megaphones and the time of day.
How can you make sure your new AI worker will drink the company Kool-Aid like the human employee it replaced did?An HR software company has th e answer: Creating profiles for AI workers in its management platform so that employers can track things like performance, productivity, and suitability for promotion.
There’ll be lots of money to be made by AI developers trying to protect people, businesses, and institutions from the dangers of their creations. And that, after all, is the point of why they’re giving us AI in the first place.
I think we’ll experience the roll out of AI as a similar set of implementations at work and in our homes. The media and VC-fueled startups might still talk about step-changes, like AGI, but that won’t change the substance, speed, or inevitability of the underlying process.
We’re missing the point if all we see is a technology that helps us write things or find better deals on shoe prices or, at the other extreme, might fix climate change or annihilate humanity.
Understanding the accuracy and reliability of AI should inform our decisions about if, when, and how we integrate it into our lives. We’re never going to have it if businesses and governments have their way.
AGI is an engineer’s wet dream masquerading as a vision for the rest of us.