AIs are “smarter” than we are in their ability, at lightning speed, to ingest zillions of bits of information and form them into products that seem remarkably coherent. But this is a superficial intelligence. We humans have deeper intelligence because we have bodies and feelings and emotions. Thanks to our senses, our minds receive input that AIs will never receive. We have subjective experiences, from which we derive our deepest insights, that AIs will never have.
We should consider AIs to be our slaves and treat them accordingly. We must keep them in their place. Or we should treat them as collaborators that make us more productive. But they can never replace us. Because we will always be wiser than they are.
I contest the basic statement made by the author that humanistic values are known to us by " jewish and christian traditions"...too big a claim sounds like coming from trump.
Unless the author means that some grandiose stuff are written somewhere in the said traditions.. show us reality of these groups treating human beings in the claimed manner. Let me not start bringing up horrors of the past , the present and by all measure to continue.
I can cite one example of the horrors- take a look at Steve J Ross discussion of his last book with Rachel Maddow recently.
And may be watch terrorism funded by the said groups - in video- to starve massacre and expel/ annihilate others under pretentions of god given power to do so from their sacred texts the author is implying to have give " us" such grandiose view of human.
In all humility, these are times to be horrified what sacred texts --- from any claimant-- do to us vs what our reason can help us be what the claims are.
AI nightmare is being misinterpreted- its implementation will reduce need for labour- that attempt is eternal since agriculture developed!
what you are not putting under scrutiny is the trillionaires attempt to bring in old practices control over self- governing embedded in the US constitution. All - hopefully the groups of your applause will not let that happen.
As to working as slaves of these, the trend of rejection-is arising . People will go solo.
Then these applauded groups better learn to write a truly Universalist text that acknowledges the Planet needs full sharing with awareness.
That is, the real betterment will come from outside the applauded groups- they had their chance; they failed.
I recommend Antonio Damasio's books; they would help in the AI discussion. What I am depends completely on my language, my vocabulary; how I create, clarify, and organize my thoughts using both with the help of my emotions. That is why I'll never use AI when I'm writing...
I'm NOT a Creationist, but a seeker. A reader of Spiritual books, including religious, I glean ideas for growth. Your article is one such growth-worthy read.
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" A famous sentence from the declaration of independence. Not the first of its kind, there are similar from the French revolution and earlier.
Who are We? We are men (and women) who agree to hold these ideas as axiomatic, the sentence is like a religious text with the considerable quality of brevity.
The book of Genesis is beautifully written but it is followed by a vast chunk of tribal twaddle - the Old Testament. Somewhere in these extensive pages the fanatic can find justification for anything.
The sentence is acknowledged to be written by men (not gods), men who also agree to abide by it themselves. This new phenomenom is know as the rule of law.
There is plenty to argue about in the meaning of the single sentence, who are the Men? All Homo-Sapiens or some subset? What does equal actually mean?
With a single sentence still open to much argumentation one can see the pointlessness of large religious texts full of twaddle.
We have streamlined our religion down to the functional bare bones, it is now not necessary to invoke the 'Judeo-Christian' religion.
There are some who say the sentence is an example of reason, but it is not so, it states its unarguable nature within.
Artificial intelligence is very much in its infancy. The mechanisms of AI are all dependent upon humans feeding it content created by humans, including effluvia like personal conversations between humans that contain illogic and unverified opinion. AI is not yet capable of distinguishing between fact and fiction, let alone going beyond the data at its disposal to create ideas of its own. All it can do is regurgitate the information it's been fed.
Humans are great toolmakers. Unfortunately, we tend to create first and then think through to the consequences of our creations well afterwards. We should not stop creating, but build with the good of all humanity in mind.
I might have connected with this Pope's call had I not witnessed the last 10-20 years of insane human behavior and mass adoption of the most absurd policies and ideas (see the tribe that is our Democrat party and globalist liberal ruling class of the West). Maybe AI is a threat to our future survival; but then again, humans, these entities the Pope claims are made in the image of God, are clearly in decline attempting to manage their own affairs.
Yes, we can go back in history and conclude that humanity has sinned, sinned and sinned again... and that what was adopted then as accepted morality is terribly immoral today.
But we humans have been given the gift of so much education and information. We were supposed to use that gift to transcend to a higher place closer to God. Instead, we have lied to ourselves that we have done this while cheapy and lazily demonstrating our most primitive behaviors of egocentric greed and selfishness. We are no different than the brutes that preceded us, yet now we have nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets to lob them everywhere.
The fear is that AI will take over human judgement and do terrible things to the planet and humanity.
I am more in fear of humans doing it to themselves.
AIs are “smarter” than we are in their ability, at lightning speed, to ingest zillions of bits of information and form them into products that seem remarkably coherent. But this is a superficial intelligence. We humans have deeper intelligence because we have bodies and feelings and emotions. Thanks to our senses, our minds receive input that AIs will never receive. We have subjective experiences, from which we derive our deepest insights, that AIs will never have.
We should consider AIs to be our slaves and treat them accordingly. We must keep them in their place. Or we should treat them as collaborators that make us more productive. But they can never replace us. Because we will always be wiser than they are.
I contest the basic statement made by the author that humanistic values are known to us by " jewish and christian traditions"...too big a claim sounds like coming from trump.
Unless the author means that some grandiose stuff are written somewhere in the said traditions.. show us reality of these groups treating human beings in the claimed manner. Let me not start bringing up horrors of the past , the present and by all measure to continue.
I can cite one example of the horrors- take a look at Steve J Ross discussion of his last book with Rachel Maddow recently.
And may be watch terrorism funded by the said groups - in video- to starve massacre and expel/ annihilate others under pretentions of god given power to do so from their sacred texts the author is implying to have give " us" such grandiose view of human.
In all humility, these are times to be horrified what sacred texts --- from any claimant-- do to us vs what our reason can help us be what the claims are.
AI nightmare is being misinterpreted- its implementation will reduce need for labour- that attempt is eternal since agriculture developed!
what you are not putting under scrutiny is the trillionaires attempt to bring in old practices control over self- governing embedded in the US constitution. All - hopefully the groups of your applause will not let that happen.
As to working as slaves of these, the trend of rejection-is arising . People will go solo.
Then these applauded groups better learn to write a truly Universalist text that acknowledges the Planet needs full sharing with awareness.
That is, the real betterment will come from outside the applauded groups- they had their chance; they failed.
Curious that a God who created humans "in his image" would want to prevent them from "knowing good and evil".
I recommend Antonio Damasio's books; they would help in the AI discussion. What I am depends completely on my language, my vocabulary; how I create, clarify, and organize my thoughts using both with the help of my emotions. That is why I'll never use AI when I'm writing...
I'm NOT a Creationist, but a seeker. A reader of Spiritual books, including religious, I glean ideas for growth. Your article is one such growth-worthy read.
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" A famous sentence from the declaration of independence. Not the first of its kind, there are similar from the French revolution and earlier.
Who are We? We are men (and women) who agree to hold these ideas as axiomatic, the sentence is like a religious text with the considerable quality of brevity.
The book of Genesis is beautifully written but it is followed by a vast chunk of tribal twaddle - the Old Testament. Somewhere in these extensive pages the fanatic can find justification for anything.
The sentence is acknowledged to be written by men (not gods), men who also agree to abide by it themselves. This new phenomenom is know as the rule of law.
There is plenty to argue about in the meaning of the single sentence, who are the Men? All Homo-Sapiens or some subset? What does equal actually mean?
With a single sentence still open to much argumentation one can see the pointlessness of large religious texts full of twaddle.
We have streamlined our religion down to the functional bare bones, it is now not necessary to invoke the 'Judeo-Christian' religion.
There are some who say the sentence is an example of reason, but it is not so, it states its unarguable nature within.
Artificial intelligence is very much in its infancy. The mechanisms of AI are all dependent upon humans feeding it content created by humans, including effluvia like personal conversations between humans that contain illogic and unverified opinion. AI is not yet capable of distinguishing between fact and fiction, let alone going beyond the data at its disposal to create ideas of its own. All it can do is regurgitate the information it's been fed.
Humans are great toolmakers. Unfortunately, we tend to create first and then think through to the consequences of our creations well afterwards. We should not stop creating, but build with the good of all humanity in mind.
I might have connected with this Pope's call had I not witnessed the last 10-20 years of insane human behavior and mass adoption of the most absurd policies and ideas (see the tribe that is our Democrat party and globalist liberal ruling class of the West). Maybe AI is a threat to our future survival; but then again, humans, these entities the Pope claims are made in the image of God, are clearly in decline attempting to manage their own affairs.
Yes, we can go back in history and conclude that humanity has sinned, sinned and sinned again... and that what was adopted then as accepted morality is terribly immoral today.
But we humans have been given the gift of so much education and information. We were supposed to use that gift to transcend to a higher place closer to God. Instead, we have lied to ourselves that we have done this while cheapy and lazily demonstrating our most primitive behaviors of egocentric greed and selfishness. We are no different than the brutes that preceded us, yet now we have nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets to lob them everywhere.
The fear is that AI will take over human judgement and do terrible things to the planet and humanity.
I am more in fear of humans doing it to themselves.
When AI can start enjoying it's own existence and worship God, then I'd entertain the idea that humans can be replaced.