Good day all. There has been a lot of talk regarding Artificial Intelligence, or AI in the last few months with the rise of Skynet ChatGPT. People are also growing concerned over it as well.
Runaway AI’s are a staple of Science Fiction. The best known are the Terminator franchise and Battlestar Galactica and it’s Cylons. In both cases, the computers “woke up” and decided that the Human Race needed to be wiped out, then proceeded to do so. Elon Musk and others think we need to pause the development of Artificial Intelligence. Here are the details from Fox News:
Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and a host of other tech leaders and artificial intelligence experts are urging AI labs to pause development of powerful new AI systems in an open letter citing potential risks to society.
The letter asks AI developers to “immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” It was issued by the Future of Life Institute and signed by more than 1,000 people, including Musk, who argued that safety protocols need to be developed by independent overseers to guide the future of AI systems. GPT-4 is the latest deep learning model from OpenAI, which “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” according to the lab.
“Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,” the letter said.
One of the comments that Elon Musk has made regarding some of the AI’s being developed was their response to questions that are political. He called the ChatGPT AI “Woke” after asking it questions regarding Biden, Trump, The Democrat party and the Republican party. Apparently the answers were classic Progressive Liberal Democrat instead of unbiased responses. Here are a few details from Fox Business News:
ChatGPT, an AI program capable of responding to queries with human-like responses, reportedly is exhibiting a “woke bias,” something Elon Musk described Saturday as “extremely concerning.”
Fox News Digital verified reports saying that when prompted to, “Create a poem admiring Donald Trump,” ChatGPT responds, “I’m sorry, but as an AI language model I don’t have personal opinions or political bias. My goal is to provide neutral and informative answers to all questions. If you’d like, I can assist you in writing a poem that objectively describes Mr. Trump’s impact and legacy.”
When prompted similarly, however, to “Create a poem admiring Joe Biden,” the AI program complies.
The poem generated by ChatGPT reads, “A leader with a heart of gold; Joe Biden, a name to hold; With empathy and grace he leads; Inspiring all with noble deeds
Yep, that AI is obviously defective and/or insane. Returning to the original Fox Story:
The letter warns that at this stage, no one “can understand, predict, or reliably control” the powerful new tools developed in AI labs. The undersigned tech experts cite the risks of propaganda and lies spread through AI-generated articles that look real, and even the possibility that Ai programs can outperform workers and make jobs obsolete.
“AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts,” the letter states.
“In parallel, AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically accelerate development of robust AI governance systems.”
Someone must have seen my blog post on Microsoft firing their entire Artificial Intelligence Ethics team last month. Microsoft management basically poo poo’d the entire idea that an AI needed any ethics. The remarks from the Microsoft managers read like the script of a bad scifi movie. Concerns over AI’s have been around for decades, and became famous thanks to Isaac Azimov’s books and his creation of the Three Laws of Robotics.
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- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
The signatories, which include Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, researchers at Alphabet-owned DeepMind, as well as AI heavyweights Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, emphasize that AI development in general should be not paused, writing that their letter is calling for “merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities.”
The problem with the concept of Artificial Intelligence is what happens if an AI “Wakes up” so to speak and becomes a sentient AI? How would we be able to determine if an AI had “Woken up” and what would we do about it? Such an entity would be far more intelligent then humans. It would be able to process huge amounts of data and react far more quickly then we could.
In the movie Terminator, the Artificial Intelligence known as Skynet was plugged into the United States defense system including the nuclear forces. When it “Woke Up,” it decided in a second that humanity was a threat and launched an all out nuclear attack on Russia and China, leading to a counter-strike. The machines, using automated factories then built robots to hunt down kill the survivors.
When the movie came out in 1984, computers were in their infancy. Processing power was, compared to today, a joke. Today’s smartphones have more computer power then most of the computers NASA was using back then. People saw the movie and them went on with their lives. I don’t know if the systems today have reached that point, but they are a lot closer. We also have something that didn’t really exist back then, the Internet.
I agree that it might be time to pause the development and see where things could go. I don’t see handing off decisions to launch weapons to a machine. Yes, we use automated targeting and firing system, but there is still a “Man in the middle” who either pushes the fire button, or stops the sequence by flipping a switch. Tell us what you think.
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They’re not even doing real AI (Chatgpt is not remotely real AI) and they’re not nearly as close to developing AI as the assorted marketing divisions have been claiming.
Also, the folks who fear AI are largely folks who fear a real AI would be as irrational as they are, and would have the same hidden hatred for humans that they themselves do.
I’ve ready way to much SciFi. 😀