My understanding is most of you are anti AI? My only question is…why? It is the coolest invention since the Internet and it is remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness. No joke the AI in sci fi movies is worse than what we actually have in many ways!
Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely anti “AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap”. If that’s what being Anti AI is…to that I say Amen.
But simply not liking a privacy conscious experience or utilization of AI at all? I’m not getting it?
No. It isn’t. First and foremost, it produces a randomised output that it has learned to make look like other stuff on the Internet. It has as much to do with consciousness as a set of dice and the fact that you think it’s more than that already shows how you don’t understand what it is and what it does.
AI doesn’t produce anything new. It doesn’t reason, it isn’t creative. As it has no understanding or experience, it doesn’t develop or change. Using it to produce art shows a lack of understanding of what art is supposed to be or accomplish. AI only chews up what’s being thrown at it to vomit it onto the Web, without any hint of something new. It also lacks understanding about the world, so asking it about decisions to be made is not only like asking an encyclopedia that comes up with answers on the fly based on whether they sound nice, regardless of the answers being correct, applicable or even possible.
And on top of all of this, on top of people using a bunch of statistical dice rolls to rob themselves of experiences and progress that they’d have made had they made their own decisions or learned painting themselves, it’s an example of the “rules for thee, not for me”. An industry that has lobbied against the free information exchange for decades, that sent lawyers after people who downloaded decades old books or movies for a few hours of private enjoyment suddenly thinks that there might be the possibility of profits around the corner, so they break all the laws they helped create without even the slightest bit of self-awareness. Their technology is just a hollow shell that makes the Internet unusable for all the shit it produces, but at least it isn’t anything else. Their business model, however, openly declares that people are only second class citizens.
There you are. That’s why I hate it. What’s not to hate?
Many humans don’t, either.
False equivalencies, or ‘Whatabouts’ are not a form of argument, they’re a deflection debate tactic.
Oh really? Man, you don’t say!
What’s your point?
I am will aware it is not conscious 🙄. Hence the word RESEMBLES.
But here’s the scary thing. Even with all your song and dance you just typed when we are interacting with AI our brains literally can not tell the difference between human interaction and AI interaction. And that to me…is WILD and so trippy
Yeah, that mostly just proves that humans are idiots, something we’ve known for awhile.
I can certainly tell, at least a lot of the time. I won’t say all of the time, but LLMs are squarely in uncanny valley territory for me. Most of what they generate seems slightly off, in one way or another.
I’ve never knowingly engaged with a proper chat bot beyond the ‘virtual help desk’ things some sites use. By proper I mean some sizable system beyond what can be typically run at home.
Home ran ones are bizarre though, so far whatever I try they get stuck on go-to phrases and tend to return to specific formats of response over and over. Very much not passing the turing test.
It doesn’t even resemble a consciousness. It’s not even close.
Also, why are you asking your question to begin with if your answer is then just a condescending “but sometimes we can’t tell AI from humans apart”? Yeah, no shit. It’s been like that at least since the 60s. That’s not the point. If that’s all you have, then go ahead, be happy you found something “wild and so trippy”. But don’t ask if there are legitimate reasons to reject AI if all you want to do is indulge yourself.