Don’t the studies, so far, indicate that we are getting dumber? Not just that we aren’t getting smarter, but actually less intelligent?
People are losing their ability to think critically, be creative, etc.
Sometimes I realize AI has a ways to go before taking over the world
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People are losing their ability to think critically, be creative, etc.
Research Confirms It: We Really Are Getting Dumber
A new study shows that IQ levels have been falling since 1975, reversing a 20th-century trend.
The other part of it is that AI has zero critical thinking. There is no "I" in the AI. It crawls the web for information on a subject and weights everything it finds equally. So while I might know to **** can some of the conspiracy theories out there (too bad the number of us who don't continues to grow), the AI bot pretty much gives them just as much creedence as theories with 50 years of scientific study backing them up.
Until there is real intelligence in AI, it is going to be only slightly more useful than a parlor trick.
I think you are selling the current version of AI a little short. Its capable of far more than you are giving it credit. For example...
Robot performs surgery on its own for first time powered by AI
Watch as a robot powered by ChatGPT's machine learning removes an imitation gallbladder in first step towards 'autonomous' machines
I used ChatGPT this afternoon to write some code for me. It wasn't perfect, but it was close. Trimmed what I thought was going to take me four hours into 15 minutes.I think you are selling the current version of AI a little short. Its capable of far more than you are giving it credit. For example...
Robot performs surgery on its own for first time powered by AI
Watch as a robot powered by ChatGPT's machine learning removes an imitation gallbladder in first step towards 'autonomous' machineswww.mirror.co.uk
Fair enough. That certainly isn't what we are getting sold as AI on the interwebs...I think you are selling the current version of AI a little short. Its capable of far more than you are giving it credit. For example...
Robot performs surgery on its own for first time powered by AI
Watch as a robot powered by ChatGPT's machine learning removes an imitation gallbladder in first step towards 'autonomous' machines
On another note:
'The robot could respond to spoken commands such as "grab the gallbladder head" or "move the left arm a bit to the left", and then learnt from its feedback.'
Learnt? Damned English destroying the English language...
There are so many factors that need to be considered. Most of them nefarious. And, just like the old computer adage: "stupid in, stupid out", AI is not immune to the same effect. Sadly, what we'll likely see is: bad people using AI to corrupt good data. The 'integrity' of data needs boundaries that can't be compromised. But, I've yet to hear anyone with guidelines to protect this essential piece. The person who comes up with a 'block-chain' concept for data, 'should' become famous. But, this flies in the face of the existing circular power structure. So expect resistance, or at the very least zero assistance.
I see AI today like what we used to say about computers' effect on the paper industry. The paper industry was predicted to fail. But, in fact, in flourished. Why? Because people spent a lot more time making things 'pretty', which had a consequential effect of a massive printing explosion. As someone who has dabbled in AI for decades and more recently immersively, I can say I'm NOT saving time. But, I soon will. And, regretfully, I've bypassed an entire industry of potential subcontractors to get the job done. I'm using AI for a binary objective; meaning what I aesthetically like, I keep. Put another way, it's not something which can be capitalized on by corrupting the data. So, there are areas that AI will have less resistance. We'll just have to wait and see.
