Comment AI is not AI (Score 1) 158
Or rather Its an umbrella term for a bunch of different technologies
ranging from deterministic programs to neural networks.
The Atlantic is thick and does not understand the fundamentals.
I happen to have a degree in AI.
The truth is your "Robot Vaccum" is just a bunch of sensors and
some deterministic programming. The code is not that different
from what we experience in video games. Just in this case its
powering a physical object not an NPC. But put those sensors
in a bipedal robot and connect it to a cloud based LLM and all
of a sudden were all going to die.
I repeat the field of AI isnt any thing new , if it was the outcome of
World War 2 have been very different. Consider that . One of the god
fathers of AI invented a machine that could break german cyphers.
The danger of AI is that we will rely on it so much that we only
ever reach a high level of mediocrity. There is a danger of a digital
dark ages - as the data and information we train these models
inherits all our rancid biases and bigotry. If we start to censor
the data upon which AI models are trained - no good will come of
that either because without the full picture AI will never have
the full story.
AI is dangerous but not in the way our vile mainstream media thinks.
Consider the fact that Today, goverment policy is now shaped by its
own lies and propaganda. Consider what it looks like when they introduce
AI in to the mix.