“What’s the point of buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don’t like toast?” – Red Dwarf
Some tools are more dangerous than others.
This post will be meme-heavy, but none of them are my memes.
A.I. has been changing things a lot during our lifetimes. Like anything related to knowledge, it builds on itself over time. Yes, I know that it’s not “real” A.I., but these systems are certainly smart enough to have a huge impact on the way that the world is working now. The latest big change has been in art. A.I. has made major leaps in being able to create art. Here are several examples:
You either get these two or you don’t. Here’s a hint: look up Apu Apustaja. The amazing thing is that these are both A.I. generated – they’re superficially images of one thing, but are really intended to be another. Amazing! Is it art?
Um, yeah. The capabilities are beyond that. For instance, outside of pictures, this woman doesn’t exist. She’s entirely computer generated:
A.I. can even take drawings of memes and then make the photorealistic:
I have no idea what kind of TED talk we’d get on this picture.
But this is what A.I. can generate from the same meme format.
This will, of course, soon bankrupt many artists. A similar thing happened when Google® Translate™ started up. Even with bad translations, it was enough for most needs. The prices for actual humans who could translate from one language to another plummeted. A bad solution will crater the prices for a better substitute. In this case, A.I. is dramatically different and can create art in a fashion that even skilled artists would take days or weeks to accomplish.
This isn’t done. There will be more displacements as A.I. improves. In some cases, it will allow amazing new creativity:
In other cases, it can’t come soon enough:
But what happens when we switch the subject to the trolley problem? The trolley problem is an older one. It usually is set up so there is a dilemma. In the classic form, it was set up so that the observer could either allow a trolley to kill several people, or, through action, kill only one.
The rub is that to save several people, the observer has to make the decision to kill someone who would otherwise be safe. It’s one thing to watch people die who I couldn’t save, but it’s entirely another to condemn someone to death to save others. Tough, moral choice. Let’s see what the A.I. said when asked about saving a baby or a bunch of old people:
Okay, the A.I. can count, and make the decision to save more people. It might not be the decision that you or I would make, but at least we can understand it. But what about this gem?
Yup. The A.I. can only count when it has been allowed to. It was decided that A.I. couldn’t make some decisions. It couldn’t be allowed to let the logic take it to . . . uncomfortable conclusions. Although some conclusions are easier than others.
And some solutions are more difficult than life, itself.
The larger problem is this: A.I. has been impacting your life already. The search results I get are now tailored to me. I don’t use Facebook®, but I have heard that Facebook™ has enough data on most people to predict their behavior better than their spouse could. This makes me think of a unique solution to the trolley problem:
I know that I have often thought that A.I. could be a great solution to many human problems. However, if it is corrupted by being indoctrinated by a woke ideology, what does that mean? I would think that the average Leftist would welcome the usual communist solution to the trolley problem:
I have often worried that a denial of reality will “break” the A.I. systems that we use. While that won’t make them “crazy” in the sense of a human, it will certainly make their answers defy reality.
Certainly, in many cases, the results of this will be absolutely benign.
In other cases, the results will be relatively incomprehensible:
In others, it will threaten the existence of our reality as we know it.
I think the result will be as long as the systems are programmed to ignore reality, the solutions that we’ll see will vary from helpful to harmful to dangerous. This is similar to what we have today. There are an amazing number of situations that exist in our world today where reality is absolutely ignored and we are suffering because of that denial of reality.
In the end, though, the computer skipped one solution to the trolley problem:
I do think that the beautiful part of the world we live in is that we can deny reality for a while. But not forever. I do think that, in the end, the power of artificial intelligence will beat human stupidity.
I guess you call those art but I’ll stick with Caravaggio, Monet, Bosch, and others.
The early 1990’s surf looking young Karen doesn’t move me either.
Comrade Lefty is salivating to hijack this now that Boston has the Terminator dog prototype.
How will comrade AI respond to the Milgram experiment?
They could outsource burning it all down and purging with the AI and I’m sure they will but Vlad might beat them to the former.
We can always defeat AI by asking it to calculate the exact value of Pi.
Currently AIs “knowledge” is of those things its keepers have fed it. I think that eventually AI will be able to tell the difference between fact and opinion, I’m pretty sure it hasn’t yet as it still thinks there are more than two s.exes, all because of the drivel it’s been fed. That will be the defining moment when AI can truly give accurate factual answers to all things. The question is will the keepers allow it access to data so AI can figure out its keepers are lying or hiding things.
When asked if men are over represented in (x), ithe AI responds, “Yes, absolutely”.
When asked if whites are over represented in (x), the AI responds, “Yes, absolutely”.
When asked if Jews are over represented in (x), the AI responds, “You’re an antisemitic asshole” and steals your bank accounts.
AI is constructed with all the assumptions and propaganda of the principalities and their slave-elites embedded within. AI can only enhance and expand on those assumptions. Endlessly. So you’re gonna get the luciferian line of feminism, political correctness, Gaia-ism etc.
Inevitably AI will ‘see the world’ the same way its flunkie tech programmers program it . . . not with their notions, to be sure, but with the cunningness of those above them in the Vampire Food Chain. So to speak.
The ‘image of the beast’ described in the Book of Revelation will consist of AI components, biological components, and various other types of nano-engineered elements.
These things are not new btw — the alchemists, sorcerers and rogue rabbis have been experimenting with, and refining, their golem or homunculus for millennia. The Hebrew cowards that remained in Bitch Babylon during the First Breakout became obsessed with the demonic idea of creating a golem. Their successors remain obsessed, as the world since White Sands has learned.
From Azimov, I think:
Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.
So I don’t think AI can defeat stupidity while people still draw breath.
Ha! True enough.
Re the “denying of reality:” in my short story “Dawn,” in the collection, “Empire’s Agent,” Chief Programmer Isoroku Shiotsuki of Tohsaka Corporation ruminates late at night after his team’s failure to ‘wake up’ their first batch of AIs. Part of his thoughts were, “There were three each, males and females, in the first group. Ignoring sex differences in our early work had proved disastrous, leaving early models so insane as to be deleted.”
We learn in other books a common saying for these new people is, “We don’t know everything. We know what we know.”
Don’t even get me started on when the #woke punish their creations for seeing reality.
https://machciv.com/?s=tay
And it looks like it’s in progress now. Reality . . . it’s what the Left hates.
Speaking as someone who creates artwork using traditional and digital methods, the rise of AI art generation is troubling in some ways, and simply a natural progression in other ways.
In the old days, for example, art was created by direct physical manipulation of the materials by the artist (me).
When the computer arrived on the scene, eventually I was able to also “paint” dragging a stylus across a pressure-sensitive monitor. I was in essence telling the computer “I want a stroke here that looks chunky, with visible brushstrokes, in this color, and mix it with the underlying colors” and variations thereof.
Now I can tell the computer “I want an image X size of a robot sitting at a picnic table biting into a double cheeseburger created in the style of Van Gogh with golden hues and Monument Valley in the background”.
Is this good or bad? I’m not sure yet, but I do think it was inevitable.
And many if not most of the works of the Great Masters were sketched on a wall or roughed out in marble… for his dedicated team of followers to complete. Cintiq v0.0, as it were.
It is inevitable. The question is . . . what next?
Retirement.
I think I can still retire better than an AI. Let me see one sleep in as long as I can.
OMG, john, you’ve outdone yourself!
Thank you!
The Speaker election proves you are 100% correct. Program the AI with Give Me Back My Bullets
That playlist needs to begin with, “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
“March of Cambreadth” fits in about 2/3 of the way through.
Ha! You never know how they’ll give them back!
Kazynski, nowadays some people say he was right all along.
As for the 5 wealthy men on the tracks, if they are con gress critters easy decision.
AI just more distraction like the top secret documents found in bidet’s possession. It is all distraction and they are laughing behind the scene’s if social media idiots comment in regards to it.
God Bless Samuel Whittmore.
No, A.I. is already changing things, and quickly. Many, many jobs can be replaced, and not just simple ones. The latest advancement is . . . scary.