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Unnecessary. In my view, the immediate answer to this is to let AI train in the real world, for instance surveillance footage, microphones in public locations t

Unnecessary. In my view, the immediate answer to this is to let AI train in the real world, for instance surveillance footage, microphones in public locations that will be able to hear and transcribe entire conversations with humans in the “wild”, environmental/satellite sensor data, AI controlled drones with cameras that the AI can “explore” with etc. Additionally, humans interfacing with the AI is also going to be a source of data especially if an AI can “interview” people. If anything, I can see a future with a push to further erode privacy laws with the ultimate aim of getting more access to human data in the real world to train AI. I’m sure the smartphones in everyone’s pocket is a rich source of sensors and data… If we can get to a point where AI can reliable seek out, filter/normalize and incorporate data from the real world into its model, that’s when it will probably start approaching the singularity.

JimtheCoder 3y ago
This sounds like a horrible world to live in...
- soligern 3y ago
  Maybe, but it would be very interesting to see an AI drone exploring every corner of the world (in a low/no impact way), categorizing species we’ve never discovered, finding patterns in environmental sensor data, making recommendations on which rivers are the biggest polluters and the best places to intercept the problem, determine the best way to optimize rain catches to increase groundwater etc. The obvious flip side of which would be that authoritarian governments could use this to figure out how to crush dissent, carry out “efficient” genocides, pillage their forests etc.
- itairall 3y ago
  This seems inevitable to me once we have cheap APIs with multi-modal abilities. Surveillance is what AI will excel at and so that is what it will be used for.
xaedes 3y ago
Maybe we need to integrate the AI golems as persons into society, so they can learn and interact with us as individual persons, like us. But remembering Battlestar Galactica, cutting the interconnectivity was the prominent defense against cylons.
onesphere 3y ago
My standard reaction to this is Batman’s city-wide sonar machine. (Not that I know anything about it)

JimtheCoder 3y ago

This sounds like a horrible world to live in...

soligern 3y ago
Maybe, but it would be very interesting to see an AI drone exploring every corner of the world (in a low/no impact way), categorizing species we’ve never discovered, finding patterns in environmental sensor data, making recommendations on which rivers are the biggest polluters and the best places to intercept the problem, determine the best way to optimize rain catches to increase groundwater etc. The obvious flip side of which would be that authoritarian governments could use this to figure out how to crush dissent, carry out “efficient” genocides, pillage their forests etc.
itairall 3y ago
This seems inevitable to me once we have cheap APIs with multi-modal abilities. Surveillance is what AI will excel at and so that is what it will be used for.

xaedes 3y ago

Maybe we need to integrate the AI golems as persons into society, so they can learn and interact with us as individual persons, like us. But remembering Battlestar Galactica, cutting the interconnectivity was the prominent defense against cylons.

onesphere 3y ago

My standard reaction to this is Batman’s city-wide sonar machine. (Not that I know anything about it)