What’s the most important thing you feel you will lose as technology and AI advances?
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helenS · 36-40, F
I live in the country but I'm a technophile and I try to understand the mechanisms behind AI. It appears to be a useful tool and I started playing with AI worksheets (an
interface for conversational exchanges with AI chat services).
Come on people why do you think better technology is a threat? Would you really want to go back to the days of landline phones? Or smoke signals?
Technical Helen
interface for conversational exchanges with AI chat services).
Come on people why do you think better technology is a threat? Would you really want to go back to the days of landline phones? Or smoke signals?
Technical Helen
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@helenS yes, I see it making many tasks better and easier. But, watching how the radical right has been using it to affect elections, etc , I am very worried.
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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@helenS interesting comment, but don't think that is a fair analogy. Had you said s rifle could be used for subsistence hunting, maybe. The risks for doing harm with AI seems almost limitless. My grandson is studying to work with and teach creative writing. Will AI interfere with the unique powers of humans to be creative?.
helenS · 36-40, F
@samueltyler2 Oh I think it will enhance our creativity because we can redirect tedious jobs to an AI engine. It's a bit like 19th century's steam engines, they multiplied human productivity. Of course, the steam engine killed many jobs. Creative destruction.
(Optimistic helenS)
(Optimistic helenS)
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@helenS Nothing wrong with land-line telephones: I have one as well as portable telephone! It works for what it is intended to do - it allow you to communicate easily by real speech with someone at a distance - but it is part of a 'phone + computer broadband service.
The problem with, hence fear of, new "technology" is less of its intrinsic nature but of the nature of the people promulgating it commercially, especially the few, huge corporations who have taken over and dominate the Internet.
New engineering of any sort has always frightened people, but I think the way it does has changed. For example, all sorts of strange fears were raised in the 19C with the development of trains conveying passengers at more than 30mph (a horse's galloping speed). That was fear of the machine; and soon proved groundless. The fears now expressed about AI might not be of the machine except as label, but of whom is labelled: those who own the systems and why. Those are fears of arcane and intangible company boards hidden behind opaque company names; and yet to prove either groundless or horribly real.
The problem with, hence fear of, new "technology" is less of its intrinsic nature but of the nature of the people promulgating it commercially, especially the few, huge corporations who have taken over and dominate the Internet.
New engineering of any sort has always frightened people, but I think the way it does has changed. For example, all sorts of strange fears were raised in the 19C with the development of trains conveying passengers at more than 30mph (a horse's galloping speed). That was fear of the machine; and soon proved groundless. The fears now expressed about AI might not be of the machine except as label, but of whom is labelled: those who own the systems and why. Those are fears of arcane and intangible company boards hidden behind opaque company names; and yet to prove either groundless or horribly real.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@ArishMell I am more fired how AI will be used. Look at the use of the new technology in Europe in 1930. That is frightening the hell out of me.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@samueltyler2 Oh, indeed. I am not sure what "new technology" you mean there, but there have always been people ever ready to exploit whatever new developments they can for bad ends.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@ArishMell today, AI, in 1930 it was radio and moving pictures.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@samueltyler2 Well, they proved more good than bad on the whole, but both media were certainly used in some countries for pure propaganda.
There is a significant difference though, in that the conventional media are out in the open whereas the Internet and AI can be used or misused in hidden ways.
There is a significant difference though, in that the conventional media are out in the open whereas the Internet and AI can be used or misused in hidden ways.
Thrust · 56-60, M