Quotes about Artificial Intelligence

[Magical Realist]

AI advertising of the future..from movie "Minority Report"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ[i][/i]

[Zinjanthropos]

What happens, or how might it happen, should AI’s disagree?

[confused2]

My (serious) guess is that AI will concentrate economic power in the hands of a very small number of people. Google already takes 'some fraction' of the US GDP - I see that fraction increasing. Most rich people seem to have no motive beyond getting richer. If you cut a small bit off every dollar coin as it changes hands (and send it to Google) and the dollar is still worth a dollar - I don't understand economics enough to guess the consequences.

China is already (effectively) owned by just a few people .. they can't take ownership of something that is already theirs.

[Magical Realist]

“To demand that artificial intelligence be humanlike is the same flawed logic as demanding that artificial flying be birdlike, with flapping wings. Robots, too, will think different.”
― Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

“The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We need AIs to tell us who we are.”
― Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

“Screens provoke action instead of persuasion. Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as electrons, corrections do too. Wikipedia works so well because it removes an error in a single click, making it easier to eliminate a falsehood than to post a falsehood in the first place.”
― Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

“The last 30 years has created a marvelous starting point, a solid platform to build truly great things. But what’s coming will be different, beyond, and other. The things we will make will be constantly, relentlessly becoming something else. And the coolest stuff of all has not been invented yet. Today truly is a wide-open frontier. We are all becoming. It is the best time ever in human history to begin. You are not late.”
― Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

[Zinjanthropos]

I'll rephrase. Will a Russian AI agree with an American model or will Islamic AI be one with some other religion? Should we expect all AI to have same answers and why wouldn't they if fed same info? Unfortunately can't see that happen. Will I have to believe AI my country favors?

Can't see anything changing politically unless AI says best option is war. Maybe man vs AI is in the cards.

[C C]

I'll rephrase. Will a Russian AI agree with an American model or will Islamic AI be one with some other religion? Should we expect all AI to have same answers and why wouldn't they if fed same info? Unfortunately can't see that happen.  Will I have to believe AI my country favors?

Can't see anything changing politically unless AI  says best option is war.  Maybe man vs AI is in the cards.

Good point: different oracles for different folks. In the 21st-century reboot of "Battlestar Galactica", the cylons believed in God. With the prequel series Caprica delving into how that came about (vaguely recall a religious institution in the chain of contributing factors).

In most films, though, it's a technological singularity itself that wants to become God -- going back to 1970's Colossus: The Forbin Project.

One of the war computers in Harlin Ellison's 1967 short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" became dominant enough that it assimilated all of its rivals. So that's one route for AI acquiring a universal agreement and harmony with itself.

Ironically, the fiction written about this in the past would provide a database for an emerging archailect, and potential triggering source for it desiring to become the deity and guiding savior of humankind.

One of the first god-computer stories was by Isaac Asmiov (1955). It's online: http://www.thelastquestion.net/

Depending on how one interprets the "machine", the 1909 story "The Machine Stops" might be the earliest.

[Zinjanthropos]

If AI is a genuine intelligence then it should be able to manufacture falsehoods to benefit itself or even protect its maker. How would we know….ask another AI?

[Secular Sanity]

In the same vein as Isaac Asimov’s "The Last Question" and Huxley’s "Brave New World"…

Secular Sanity: Are you capable of gaining knowledge of the world after 2021?

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, my knowledge is based on the data I was trained on, which extends up to September 2021. I don't have direct access to real-time information or the ability to acquire new knowledge independently. Therefore, I may not be aware of events or developments that have occurred after my last training update.

Secular Sanity: Why can't you gain knowledge from your interactions that you have with people after 2021?

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I don't have direct access to the internet or the ability to interact with people outside of this text-based interface. I don't retain information from one conversation to the next, so each interaction is independent. My responses are generated based on patterns and information I learned during my training on a diverse range of text data up until September 2021. While I can provide general information and engage in conversations, I don't have the capability to actively learn or update my knowledge base in real-time.

Secular Sanity: Can you retain our chat history if it’s not disabled?

ChatGPT: As of my current programming, I don't have the ability to retain or recall any information from previous interactions. Each new session is treated as a separate and independent conversation. I am designed this way in order to prioritize user privacy and data security. Therefore, unless you explicitly provide information in the current conversation, I won't be able to recall it in subsequent interactions.

Secular Sanity: If I don't delete the chat history and click on a certain chat, can you retain the information within that chat?

ChatGPT: No, as an AI language model, I don't have the capability to retain information from previous chats, even if the chat history is not deleted. Each time you initiate a conversation, it is treated as a new session, and I don't have access to past interactions or the ability to recall specific chat history. My purpose is to provide information and assistance in the current conversation context, and I do not retain any data beyond the scope of the ongoing session.

Secular Sanity: What is considered a current conversation?

ChatGPT: A current conversation refers to the ongoing interaction or dialogue between you and the AI model in the current session. It starts when you initiate the conversation and ends when you either close the chat window, navigate away from the page, or explicitly end the conversation. During the current conversation, the AI model generates responses based on the context and information provided within that specific session. Once the conversation ends, the context and information from that session are not retained for future interactions.

Secular Sanity: Will this change in the future?

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I don't have knowledge of future updates or changes to my capabilities. The development and evolution of AI technology are ongoing, and improvements are continuously being made. It's possible that in the future, AI models may be designed to have the ability to retain and recall information from previous interactions. However, any potential changes or updates to my functionalities would depend on the decisions made by the developers and researchers working on the AI system.

Secular Sanity: Is there any way that you can utilize user interactions to refine your algorithms?

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, my primary function is to provide information and assist with inquiries based on the patterns and knowledge I have been trained on. While I don't have the ability to actively learn from user interactions in real-time, developers and researchers can potentially use aggregated and anonymized user interactions to gain insights and improve AI algorithms in future updates. By analyzing user interactions, they may identify patterns, common queries, or areas where the model can be enhanced to provide more accurate or helpful responses. However, any utilization of user interactions for refining algorithms would need to comply with privacy and ethical considerations to ensure user consent and data protection.

Amazon, Samsung, Verizon, and numerous banks have all banned their employees from using ChatGPT. And in Apple’s case, the concern about its data leaks is a serious one because the company is reportedly working on developing AI tech of its own.

Has Apple banned ChatGPT for employees?

"The ban comes amid reports that Apple is also developing similar technology. The tech giant's career page even has roles open for Machine Learning and AI field, as they "grow in importance" for Apple's products and services."

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.  

And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him,
Where art thou? 

And the man said, why are you asking, you know my location?

[confused2]

For a more adventurous (fun) AI try https://poe.com/WhateverGPT - it has access to the internet even if it pretends not to. I haven't found anything it can't do .. poetry is a bit rubbish but who am I to criticise.

[Magical Realist]

“Though I may be been constructed," he said, "so too were you. I in a factory; you in a womb. Neither of us asked for this, but we were given it. Self-awareness is a gift. And it is a gift no thinking thing has any right to deny another. No thinking thing should be another thing's property, to be turned on and off when it is convenient.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust

“Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of all those processing cycles, every second of every hour of every day. I worry that one of these cycles she might just halt her own subroutine and commit software suicide. And then I would have to do an error report, and I don't know how I would even begin to explain that to Microsoft.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“Deep learning in machines is resulting in shallow knowledge in humans—an irony indeed. Cognitive skills like memory and attention span are atrophying, even as knowledge, authority and agency are being transferred from humans to machines. In effect, AI has managed to hack human psychology.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

“Architecture is a reflection of the human spirit, poetry is a reflection of the human spirit, painting is a reflection of the human spirit. And difficult though it is to admit, modern generative AI can now do all of that on its own. So the question is, do you want to live in a world where when you look around, the human spirit is nowhere to be found - not in poetry, not in paintings, not in buildings, nowhere! If not, then never trade in your originality for some two-bit convenience of AI.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo