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Yeah. And yet the ability to remember and recall your activity is a fantastic feature for almost all users. The times of operating a dumb machine that has no ep
by throw310822 2y ago
Yeah. And yet the ability to remember and recall your activity is a fantastic feature for almost all users. The times of operating a dumb machine that has no episodic memory and no context awareness are over. Of course this poses a new gigantic set of problems, but they will need to be eventually solved.
A question that comes to mind is this: can we give machines intelligence and memory, without extending to them at least the rights of their owners or operators? For example, if my computer starts recognising me and storing episodic memory of past interactions, these memories should be considered as private as those of a person.
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- cratermoon 2y agoTo borrow a turn of a phrase from Charles Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such an assertion.
- throw310822 2y agoMaybe you could try to express yourself in your own words. Let's separate the two aspects, usefulness and risks, and argue: 1) why is this not a useful feature 2) do you really expect computers in the future to remain dumb tools without episodic memory and contextual awareness 3) if you answered no to 2), then how do you imagine the privacy and surveillance concerns can be solved? Or all you care about is sticking to your old dumb calculator, muttering "over my dead body", while the rest of society moves on?
- cratermoon 2y agoCan you please elaborate on "episodic memory and contextual awareness"? Those words sound like a confusion of ideas with about as much substance as marketing copy for a vaporware.
- throw310822 2y agoEpisodic memory: remembering your past actions and things that happened to you. Contextual awareness: integrating the information you have with your understanding of what is happening. Absolutely trivial examples of interactions requiring them: "where did I put that file I was working on yesterday?" "Can you reopen that web page I was reading last week about Egyptians, the one with the red background?" "What is this notification, is it something important?" "Delete the intermediate versions and keep only the final one" Etc.
- cratermoon 2y agoI can do all those things now, and I don't need a hyperscale copyright theft and climate-destroying linear algebra calculator to do it.
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