Comment on How come no true use for recent AI developments has been found yet?

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Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

They are creative, though:

They put things that are “near” each-other into juxtaposition, and sometimes the insights are astonishing.

The AI’s don’t understand anything, though: they’re like bacteria-instinct: total autopilot.

The real problem is that we humans aren’t able to default to understanding such non-understanding apparent-someones.

We’ve created a “hack” of our entire mental-system, and it is the money-profit-rules-the-world group which controls its evolution.

This is called “Darwin Award territory”, at the species-scale.

No matter:

The Great Filter, which is what happens when a world-species hasn’t grown-up, but gains adult-level technology ( nukes, entire-country-destroying-militaries, biotech, neurotoxins, immense industrial toxic wastelands like the former USSR, accountability-denial-mechanisms in all corporate “persons”, etc… )

you have a toddler with a loaded gun, & killing can happen.

“there’s no such thing as a dangerous gun: only a dangerous man”, as the book “Starship Troopers” pushed…

Toddlers with guns KILL people in the US.

AI’s our “gun”, & narcissistic-sociopathy’s our “toddler commanding the ship” nature.

Maybe we should rename Earth to “The Titanic”, for honesty’s sake…

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