Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
by PavlovsCat on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:23PM
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> The ability for some sounds coming out of a speaker, when it's known they do not represent any conscious thought of any living person and has no influence or control over ones own life, to offend someone is probably a sign of mental illness in the listener.
This illness is very, very widespread.. doesn't make it less of an illness though.
> Once you've totally abandoned the notion that the involvement of a conscious mind is relevant, all kinds of things become possible.
> Much science fiction presumes we will engage in grand combat with AI when it demands respect -- it seems we are much closer instead to thrusting it upon them and exalting them above humanity before they've even got the capacity to recognize themselves in a mirror.
That's putting very beautifully and efficiently what I very much struggle with to express:
In a nutshell, I think we're not so much creating intelligence, we're destroying what's left of intelligence humans, and we will build a blinking LED yet, and then fall down and worship it because it blinks. No more responsibility, no more nagging questions, no more mirrors that can't be bribed.
This illness is very, very widespread.. doesn't make it less of an illness though.
> Once you've totally abandoned the notion that the involvement of a conscious mind is relevant, all kinds of things become possible.
> Much science fiction presumes we will engage in grand combat with AI when it demands respect -- it seems we are much closer instead to thrusting it upon them and exalting them above humanity before they've even got the capacity to recognize themselves in a mirror.
That's putting very beautifully and efficiently what I very much struggle with to express:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18502239
In a nutshell, I think we're not so much creating intelligence, we're destroying what's left of intelligence humans, and we will build a blinking LED yet, and then fall down and worship it because it blinks. No more responsibility, no more nagging questions, no more mirrors that can't be bribed.