I wrote my own version of Eliza in the 1970s and wrote NPC AI code for computer games in the 1980s & 1990s. The current stuff does some neat tricks but at the core it's high speed pattern recognition & prediction on huge datasets, not magic. Sometimes useful, but not to me and still prone to the GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) problem and when it goes off the rails it REALLY goes off the rails. For me it's a big "No, thanks".
When I hear people like Hoffman talk about data and rationality and knowledge, I can see so keenly what happens when a culture brushes off the humanities, and sets aside the humanist vision of what it means to be educated. What he's saying is so ignorant on so many levels: of philosophy, history, psychology, literature. Read Hard Times - not Dickens' best but it shows that we've been talking about how technology and commerce can degrade our understanding of human nature, and simplify our grasp of what we call "knowledge," for, like, quite a while.
The use of it will be whatever those who develop it want. It's their investment. Their agenda will be in the rules.
I expect it will mirror demand and supply in exchange for money because that's what we're used to, and that's what they're used to.
Just what is exchanged will necessarily depart from what is good for a human with a sentient body. You need mirror neurons and sense organs for good ethics.
It's happened before… think: the British handling of opium dealing in China, run by emotionally-distant old boys of the upper class school system. You just need to see people as things and look at it from the strategic layer. AI will be good at that, as I understand it.
I wrote my own version of Eliza in the 1970s and wrote NPC AI code for computer games in the 1980s & 1990s. The current stuff does some neat tricks but at the core it's high speed pattern recognition & prediction on huge datasets, not magic. Sometimes useful, but not to me and still prone to the GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) problem and when it goes off the rails it REALLY goes off the rails. For me it's a big "No, thanks".
When I hear people like Hoffman talk about data and rationality and knowledge, I can see so keenly what happens when a culture brushes off the humanities, and sets aside the humanist vision of what it means to be educated. What he's saying is so ignorant on so many levels: of philosophy, history, psychology, literature. Read Hard Times - not Dickens' best but it shows that we've been talking about how technology and commerce can degrade our understanding of human nature, and simplify our grasp of what we call "knowledge," for, like, quite a while.
The use of it will be whatever those who develop it want. It's their investment. Their agenda will be in the rules.
I expect it will mirror demand and supply in exchange for money because that's what we're used to, and that's what they're used to.
Just what is exchanged will necessarily depart from what is good for a human with a sentient body. You need mirror neurons and sense organs for good ethics.
It's happened before… think: the British handling of opium dealing in China, run by emotionally-distant old boys of the upper class school system. You just need to see people as things and look at it from the strategic layer. AI will be good at that, as I understand it.