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> "spammers are evolving into something we are not able to recognize as spam" There is something deeply sad (if not freightening) to invent a enormously powerf

> "spammers are evolving into something we are not able to recognize as spam" There is something deeply sad (if not freightening) to invent a enormously powerful digital augmentation technology and use it primarily to dimimish our humanity as it drowns in fake replicas

goatlover 4y ago
There’s a fundamental question of why we’re trying to produce Artificial Intelligence instead of Augmented (human) Intelligence. Why did the first term stick and not the second from the 50s? Why do we want to replace humans instead of augment them? To increase shareholder profit? To wage war remotely? To hand governments more power over us? What is the goal?
- toastmaster11 4y ago
  Artificial intelligence creates a more compelling narrative. It’s the “us .vs. them” dynamic that humans are so fond of. Even when it isn’t an explicitly antagonistic relationship; an AI is still shown as an “other”. Really when you think about it, in a good amount of stories humans might as well be augmented intelligences. We just aren’t making a point of them being different, or at odds with the general human population.
- peteradio 4y ago
  Augmented intelligence is what we've been doing with computers since their inception.
- dale_glass 4y ago
  They both go together. Image AI has inpainting. You can provide a sketch for the AI to follow, have it redo parts of the image, or have it extend the image. You can pull things into Photoshop and retouch there. Novel AI has story writing assistance. Or ChatGPT can be used to provide bits and pieces that can be then combined or improved until something good results. Eg, Chat GPT can write fairly passable poetry that one could use as a base for something actually good. So far all AI works much better when combined with a human that knows what they're doing. You can easily create hundreds of okay pictures, but an actual artist is still by far the best user for an image generator.
- failuser 4y ago
  Augmented intelligence is another aspect of automation. Does not sound as scary of create entirely new paradigms.
- college_physics 4y ago
  Whatever the goals they derive from previous, less dangerous eras, where there was always at least a hope that an oppressed or abused segment of the population could escape: migrate, revolt, strike, whatever We are entering a dystopic regime where our famous pale blue dot planet acts more as a mousetrap, where we play out an arms race of surveillance, advanced weaponry automation, psychological warfare and misinformation. Its not clear how we could put a lid on the artificial madness but for sure it wont be achieved with half-measures
- djokkataja 4y ago
  It's not a pure "either/or" scenario; augmented intelligence is still a goal (Neuralink, for example), but our progress on upgrading the human brain has been going much more slowly than our progress on upgrading AI.
civopsec 4y ago
Welcome to modernity.

goatlover 4y ago

There’s a fundamental question of why we’re trying to produce Artificial Intelligence instead of Augmented (human) Intelligence. Why did the first term stick and not the second from the 50s? Why do we want to replace humans instead of augment them? To increase shareholder profit? To wage war remotely? To hand governments more power over us? What is the goal?

toastmaster11 4y ago
Artificial intelligence creates a more compelling narrative. It’s the “us .vs. them” dynamic that humans are so fond of. Even when it isn’t an explicitly antagonistic relationship; an AI is still shown as an “other”. Really when you think about it, in a good amount of stories humans might as well be augmented intelligences. We just aren’t making a point of them being different, or at odds with the general human population.
peteradio 4y ago
Augmented intelligence is what we've been doing with computers since their inception.
dale_glass 4y ago
They both go together. Image AI has inpainting. You can provide a sketch for the AI to follow, have it redo parts of the image, or have it extend the image. You can pull things into Photoshop and retouch there. Novel AI has story writing assistance. Or ChatGPT can be used to provide bits and pieces that can be then combined or improved until something good results. Eg, Chat GPT can write fairly passable poetry that one could use as a base for something actually good. So far all AI works much better when combined with a human that knows what they're doing. You can easily create hundreds of okay pictures, but an actual artist is still by far the best user for an image generator.
failuser 4y ago
Augmented intelligence is another aspect of automation. Does not sound as scary of create entirely new paradigms.
college_physics 4y ago
Whatever the goals they derive from previous, less dangerous eras, where there was always at least a hope that an oppressed or abused segment of the population could escape: migrate, revolt, strike, whatever We are entering a dystopic regime where our famous pale blue dot planet acts more as a mousetrap, where we play out an arms race of surveillance, advanced weaponry automation, psychological warfare and misinformation. Its not clear how we could put a lid on the artificial madness but for sure it wont be achieved with half-measures
djokkataja 4y ago
It's not a pure "either/or" scenario; augmented intelligence is still a goal (Neuralink, for example), but our progress on upgrading the human brain has been going much more slowly than our progress on upgrading AI.

civopsec 4y ago

Welcome to modernity.