All I can say is "ugh." As though AI will remain on your computer screen as a toy you play with and nothing else. As though all it will do is challenge our ego-based notions of human creativity and nothing else. As though it won’t pervade EVERY aspect of our lives within 5 years, destroying everything it touches. As though it won’t become embodied in advanced robots that will be harnessed by technodictators around the world within ten years. As though it won’t become a singleton world governance system squelching human freedom and eventually life, within 10-15 years.
All I can say is "ugh." As though AI will remain on your computer screen as a toy you play with and nothing else. As though all it will do is challenge our ego-based notions of human creativity and nothing else. As though it won’t pervade EVERY aspect of our lives within 5 years, destroying everything it touches. As though it won’t become embodied in advanced robots that will be harnessed by technodictators around the world within ten years. As though it won’t become a singleton world governance system squelching human freedom and eventually life, within 10-15 years.
Damn, Tam.
I share all those fears, but perhaps not with such a sense of grim inevitability.
Also, toys and play are some of the most important things of all!