You know, I decided to think about our future utopia and realized - look, we have AI that could really solve humanity’s problems and give us a chance for a bright future, but it is used for all sorts of nonsense like generating images and other creative and intellectual work, as well as for surveillance, which in the long term is suicide.
Our damn rare earth resources are finite and non-renewable. What will we do when this fake god runs out of resources? Will we sit like beggars without any technology, living like in the Middle Ages or even worse?
This isn’t fascism anymore, it’s worse, much worse, it’s a f****** Second Tower of Babel! If we sit and do nothing, our descendants have no future! We must resist this with all our might while we still can!
On the other hand, what can we do with these fascists? Eliminate one, and another will appear in his place, only maybe even worse and crazier. “They need power for the sake of even more power, there is nothing higher.”
Are you prepared for World War III and the end of civilization? I’m already considering suicide, just to escape living in this madhouse any longer…
No, we don’t. We have overmarketed multidimensional statistical analysis algorithms that are being used to generate large volumes of plausible-sounding bullshit.
Machine learning cannot produce any new insights, it can only ingest and regurgitate existing data. The output from these programs is the equivalent of throwing all the contents of your refrigerator into a blender, straining out some of larger chunky bits and then calling the result a home-cooked meal.
Hmm, it’s hard to disagree. That’s exactly what AI is for now: it can steal anyone’s style if it collects enough data about them. So yes, it’s not consciousness yet, but it’s a very good imitator.
In essence, it will never have a consciousness similar to human consciousness; it will be a software consciousness, so to speak, or alien, but most likely it will be software.