It’s been a wild ride of people thinking things can’t be the case which then turn out to be the case.
For example, this neat work just out of NYU: nyu.edu/…/ai-learns-through-the-eyes-and-ears-of-…
I've seen a lot of reaction to AI that smacks of some kind of species-level narcissism, IMO. Lots of people have grown up being told how special humans were and how there were certain classes of things that were "uniquely human" that no machine could ever do, and now they're being confronted with the notion that that's just not the case. The psychological impact of AI could be just as distressing as the economic impact, it's going to be some interesting times ahead.
kromem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
thesmokingman@programming.dev 9 months ago
I’m not sure how you get this from the article, though. Evans has no doubt it’s possible; like anyone with any knowledge of the state of AI he also knows that’s really fucking far away and just science fiction today. On the other hand, if you’re going to reduce things to the absurd level comment chain OP did, I suppose the future is now because judicial AI is just as racist as cops.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 months ago
I'm not talking about the article specifically, just a general class of reaction I've seen.
sacredbirdman@kbin.social 9 months ago
"What we call AI lacks agency, the ability to make dynamic decisions of its own accord, choices that are “not purely reactive, not entirely determined by environmental conditions.” "
That's from the article and I referred to that.
thesmokingman@programming.dev 9 months ago
So are you suggesting that humans “[lack] agency [and] the ability to make dynamic decisions?” Your point is that humans are just AI and, if we’re going from this quote, we can’t have agency if we are the same.
sacredbirdman@kbin.social 9 months ago
I'm not saying that humans are just AI, I'm just saying that there's no fundamental difference in the sense that we also respond to stimuli.. we don't have free will.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
None of the AI technology we have now even comes close to human intelligence
FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 months ago
And yet it's writing poetry and painting pictures. That makes it worse, doesn't it? Turns out you don't have to be very intelligent to do those things.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, shitty poetry and entirely unoriginal artwork. I don’t know what your deal is but there’s a hell of a lot more to consciousness and the human brain than that and current AI tech doesn’t even come close to it.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 months ago
Better art and poetry than most humans can produce.