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Sorry im posting so much, my silly opinions, but i interviewed with an AI company a while back that I didn't realize was in the military space and basically fla
by pydevsci 8y ago
Sorry im posting so much, my silly opinions, but i interviewed with an AI company a while back that I didn't realize was in the military space and basically flat out told the interviewer once I read more about the company's projects that combining AI in military applications is basically the scariest sounding shit in the world to me and what are people even thinking with this kind of shit. Yes it's sexy to investors and warlords and the stuff cartoon villains dream of, but I dont want my kids (if i had any) having to live with weaponized AI flying around testing whether or not machine gunning things to then rank the outcome and reinforce an activity that is obviously always bad. Humans don't behave or make decisions that way. That system is not ever going be able to relate to the infinitely complex system called emotions which are highly involved in human behavior. They are probably so complex and influentual to behavior for a damn good reason and I bet it involves our survival up to this point. All the code and unit testing in the world isn't going to teach this technology to be friends with us. It's just code and equations. Even if the closest algorithmic proxy would have trouble evaluating us consistently. I feel like that's probably why we have emotions to begin with and they are too hard to solve using partial differential equations. And totally unique to every person individual.
I think we need to leave it that way. I think there's a kind of a misguided excitement about the benefits of technology coming from the tech majors who get hacked far too much to support linking our brains together to experience the misery of a virtualized existence in an advertising experiment.
Its a shame that there are not options in the AI space to do something other than harvest user data, trade stocks, or autonomously murder things.
With all the data scientists in the field. Someone plot out the direction this is going. I'm too opinionated now.