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All Just just about Computer network ChatSocial Considerations For Artificial Intelligence
by:
Noel A. Pierre
Societal Considerations for A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
According to Dennis Gorelik, a Senior Developer at IBM, a weakness of an AIS (meaning, an artificial intelligence society, consisting of computers trained to 'think') is that it was not born through natural selection as human beings are. But one could view whether this is a disadvantage or an advantage from a couple of sides. Inside
human natural selection, there are biases based on upbringing, genetic factors and how ultimately one responds to societal events. For example, if one came from a violent past/childhood and complete up being a psychopath, this could override any INTELLECTUAL, socially beneficial learning that this person ultimately gets. It can cause them to do decisions based not on logic, but by their own emotional biases.
With strong AI, this factor is at least on paper removed on a grand, world-based scale, with the Machine being the sum of all par7ts, all folk connected. In WIRED magazine’s new issue, for example, writer Kevin Kelly describes the internet’s house for AI as being a breeding ground for a single consciousness by billions of folk and situations. So, piece in a separately controlled AI environment, the AIS mightiness by function – or by purposeful ‘programming’ – take on the biases of an INDIVIDUAL user, inside
the framework of mass contributions, it becomes a mammoth collector of information. I imagine that the ideal, if AIS is to activity for human advantage, is that the emotional side of the Machine would-be take on so-called ‘normal’ emotional states of the folk and systems it serves. Folk do not will to be abused or purloined from or killed en masse.
In short, natural selection is a hit-or-miss thing on strictly
intellectual and emotional basises. “Love is blind,” “there’s no accounting for Several people,” “There’s a sucker born every minute,” etc. With the large figure of data an AIS civilization would-be collect, there would-be in theory be a checks-and-balances library for more and more questionable, dubious, socially damaging things, regardless of the user. It would-be become a servant to the population – not to any one particular group, person or thing.
I like to think of the example of open source software system development, or thought
sites like Wikipedia that allow the folk at large to update information at will, and seed out vandals. Humans are fallible in emotional/logical route that a Machine would-be not be. At the same time, the AIS is fallible by the simple inadequacy of it FULLY capturing the entire range of every mental/emotional/psychological impact of natural occurrences – from a mad girlfriend, to the effects of a tsunami, to why your college roomie likes to play the Black Dragon calypso album five times a day. The Machine, for all its exposure to the world, cannot cognize what folk think – only what we do. So, tweaks in its activity can be monitored and adjusted by a earth at large – more better than trusting the maintenance to a possibly megalomanic techno-whiz who mightiness want to take out the planet because he despised his daddy. ;)
A possible serious weakness to AIS is its adaptation to a earth wherever
it becomes more and more dependent on its use, from medical use to fiscal markets to solace for lonely, desperate people. In the Great Depression, folk so dependent on the old stock exchange during the crash virtually
killed themselves. Once
the Earth Trade Centres were smashed down, the stock exchange likewise
was affected.
We all cognize what possible consequences are if a massive blackout invalidated even as the back-up systems of hospitals, heat and light, even as food and water production. And galore folk now live out their societal lives via the Computer network (see the perp who about succeeded in a mass suicide with lonely female members of his chat group.) In the event of a cataclysmal system crash for a fully-integrated, fully-indispensable global AIS, all of could become instant bedlam. So, the societal importance of an AIS in that scenario would-be have to be really closely monitored by thinking, reactive humans after all. We will still have to use our nice ol’ noggins, because you can’t eat or drink silicone polymer chips, and what nice is a mechanical AI heart in your chest if it stops working?
One more point just about the implications of a fully-functional AIS, and this stretches to religion and spirituality. All of the world’s religious texts were written by the hands of men. Whether the belief in God came through divine revelation (as the religious/spiritualists like me believe), or just through man’s childlike imagination (as the atheists attest) is a history-long argument between these two groups.
From a philosophical point of view, however, the question takes on a some route. If man so
fabricated God, the argument could go, the issue mightiness be how technology affects the understanding of what God is. The point mightiness be ready-made by the philosophers that God was written into the books by human beings, chiefly to attempt to understand the meaning of life, of who we are as a species, and to help us just get by life. If systems of thought and technology can be upgraded to higher levels of understanding, why couldn’t there besides be a God v.2.0? After all, they may argue, the old model was a Lord who we couldn’t see or touch – it’s a major leap of faith to cognize that God exists. The old text was written in parchment and determined morality -- today's dominant medium is multi-bit, encrypted and often imposes morality in computer network law, chat room behavior and proposal
columns on how to be a better partner or member of a community.
The computer network was created by us by through a vision of connecting humans to the universe. So, galore folk who sit on their butts for hours a day devising sure their societal and fiscal prayers are answered, may choose to be on their knees to what they consider an alive-acting, omnipresent, all-knowing, all-seeing, instantly available Diety – God for a new millennium. What effect this possible stream of thought will have on our flesh-and-blood world, so connected to a universe-wide savior to so many, remains to be seen.
Just just about the author:
Christmas Anthony Capital of south dakota is a web publisher, seller and a multi-instrumental calypsonian (national music of Island
and Tobago). His is an alumna of Carleton University and Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
His sites include
www.hifispy.com
http://darkmatterz.blogspot.com
http://botopia.blogspot.com(featuring his A.I. persona, Jexdon.
Contact him at chatbot@hifispy.com .
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