> The public is slightly fearful and wary of AI based not on their experience with it
Anyone who didn't feel a little shock of obsolescence when they first experienced a capable language model might have an imagination deficit.
> There are no examples of super AI robots working out for good.
It is fairly easy to see how beings more capable than us present problems for us.
And all the positive scenarios I have heard have major plot holes. I.e. "We won't have to work!" Well, I think that is certain. But that leaves out the question of how we all get compensated for not working.
Nature, and I don't see any end to nature, isn't usually kind in that situation.
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I do think that if we want to be treated in an ethical manner, we need to start improving our own ethics, personally and in our legal systems. Because AI is going to operate with the resources and ethics of the most powerful, legally unencumbered humans from the start.
> The public is slightly fearful and wary of AI based not on their experience with it, but because the only picture they have of it in their mind is the negative one.
Can't relate. I was super optimistic until I saw what overreliance on AI and ubiquitous public access are doing to my peers and - from what I hear - to school-attending generations.
Right I think there probably isn’t one book that encapsulates the entire Internet today. The first book you mentioned has ideas that parallel YouTube and influencers whereas you have other books like “Neurmancer” and “A Logic Named Joe” that resemble World Wide Web and Wikipedia.
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge and Accelerando by Charles Stross both have a lot of parallels with current AI and Internet developments, and are great books to boot. Accelerando has free ebook versions available, which I am happy to share, thanks to the author and publisher. I can’t recommend cstross highly enough. Vinge needs no introduction, though the work mentioned is somewhat less well known and later than his more renowned works.
> > The public is slightly fearful and wary of AI based not on their experience with it, but because the only picture they have of it in their mind is the negative one.
Imo, public is fearful and wary of AI, because tech industry run years long campaign making sure it will happen. All that while forcing AI use in completely ridiculous places. And all the while really making everyone understand that in general, tech industry is run by a bunch of sociopaths.
That kind of triple combo is guaranteed to produce fear.
> The public is slightly fearful and wary of AI based not on their experience with it
Anyone who didn't feel a little shock of obsolescence when they first experienced a capable language model might have an imagination deficit.
> There are no examples of super AI robots working out for good.
It is fairly easy to see how beings more capable than us present problems for us.
And all the positive scenarios I have heard have major plot holes. I.e. "We won't have to work!" Well, I think that is certain. But that leaves out the question of how we all get compensated for not working.
Nature, and I don't see any end to nature, isn't usually kind in that situation.
--
I do think that if we want to be treated in an ethical manner, we need to start improving our own ethics, personally and in our legal systems. Because AI is going to operate with the resources and ethics of the most powerful, legally unencumbered humans from the start.
> The public is slightly fearful and wary of AI based not on their experience with it, but because the only picture they have of it in their mind is the negative one.
Can't relate. I was super optimistic until I saw what overreliance on AI and ubiquitous public access are doing to my peers and - from what I hear - to school-attending generations.
See The Machine Stops, by E. M. Forster. The author seems to be trying to imagine the Internet from the perspective of the 1920’s.
Consider also the personal data tablets in The Mote in God’s Eye, which were very iPad-like, though written in the 70’s
Right I think there probably isn’t one book that encapsulates the entire Internet today. The first book you mentioned has ideas that parallel YouTube and influencers whereas you have other books like “Neurmancer” and “A Logic Named Joe” that resemble World Wide Web and Wikipedia.
“A Logic Named Joe” is probably the closest.
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge and Accelerando by Charles Stross both have a lot of parallels with current AI and Internet developments, and are great books to boot. Accelerando has free ebook versions available, which I am happy to share, thanks to the author and publisher. I can’t recommend cstross highly enough. Vinge needs no introduction, though the work mentioned is somewhat less well known and later than his more renowned works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
> > The public is slightly fearful and wary of AI based not on their experience with it, but because the only picture they have of it in their mind is the negative one.
Imo, public is fearful and wary of AI, because tech industry run years long campaign making sure it will happen. All that while forcing AI use in completely ridiculous places. And all the while really making everyone understand that in general, tech industry is run by a bunch of sociopaths.
That kind of triple combo is guaranteed to produce fear.
Yeah it's pretty hard not to be afraid of how this will be abused against us when tech companies won't even make an ethical cookie banner on a website