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Google X under Gawdat was DEEPLY invested in AI and Quantum Computing. The intersection of which is where all the SERIOUS concerns come from. Mainly if people have just one wish, they want to be happy. But we can't just tell computers that or they could dope us. It’s hard to remember how different life was before smart phones. That is, until the internet goes out and you have like NOTHING happening, and you can’t tolerate existing. Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. - Mo Gawdat Sadly, the above is the only part of the book I found interesting. Portions of the book seem to obsess with sowing fear about the capabilities and problems of AI. The latter half suggests that all can be solved by following the golden rule, to treat others nicely and hope that future AI systems learn from us. The author often seems to anthromorphize AI into a lost child needing a guardian. Confusingly, he notes that nobody truly understands how AI works but seems to know the solution to the problem.
The book’s first part can be quite unnerving as Mo explores the potential consequences of AI malfunctioning or being used maliciously. However, the book’s second parters a ray of hope, as Mo provides a blueprint for how we can teach ourselves and our machines to live better and preserve our species.One of the shining aspects of the book is the focus on ethics. In the vast AI literature, ethics is a topic that often feels either neglected or glossed over. Gawdat, however, prioritizes it. He touches on the importance of making conscious decisions now about how we design, use, and regulate AI. Rather than presenting a doomsday scenario, he offers solutions and paths we might take to ensure AI is a boon, not a bane. It’s also worth remembering that his ‘be more discerning’ solution aimed at adults, is at least in line with a POSSIBLE reality of people his age who Remember a life without phones AND INTERNET. Asking the upcoming generation to have those traits is chocolate teapot time. I’m not sure where the positivity spoken of is - Gawdat’s answer is again, like so much current tosh: be stoic and mindful in the face of the unrelenting tsunami of social media, online advertising and coercion activity, and In doing this we will teach AI to be nice (?!?!?!) By following a strict prescriptive method, we become dumber, because we lose the ability to think for ourselves." Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. – Mo Gawdat
Teach each other how to teach the AI. (This ought to be 'one another' as more than two people are involved.)A section that really resonated with me was his exploration of the potential impact of AI on our day-to-day lives. Gawdat does a solid job of extrapolating current trends and imagining the world a few decades down the line. It’s a vision that’s both exciting and cautionary, filled with opportunities and pitfalls. Children don't learn from what you say. They learn from what you do." AIs are already reading and learning from what we say and choose and do online. And what we support. Every year we create more information than we created in human history to date. So "the store of collective human knowledge is diluted by 50% each year" and altered in tone by the new data. Mention is made of Portal, "one of the earliest mainstream games to feature a female avatar" - not at all, Dungeon Siege I played as a female since 2002.
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