The AI Doc
I watched The AI Doc (netflix.com/title/82792555) on netflix last night. Lots of "big names" interviewed (imdb.com/title/tt39150120/full…) from the world of AI, both techies and leaders.
If you are interested in AI, well worth watching.
First part is very doom and gloom ... tech leader after tech leader say they think this will end badly but can't be stopped, but some optimism as well from some (we'll have unlimited free energy and no-one will need to work).
Finishes with there is a narrow window of hope where we have some sort of global treaty (something like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_o… I suppose) thats stops the bad outcomes.
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An expectant father investigates AI, interviewing tech executives and experts to grasp how it could affect his child's life — and humanity's future.www.netflix.com
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Phil Bass
in reply to Peter Lord • • •@Peter Lord I'm not on Netflix, so I can't watch that. However, my take is this ...
AI is a tool. A powerful tool. What happens in the future will depend on how we use it. Just like nuclear fission, we can build reactors to generate electricity or we can build bombs. If AI wipes out the human race it will be because we have misused it. And that will be our fault, not the technology's.
FWIW, I expect AI to bring great benefits in many areas and there will be some disasters along the way. The biggest problem is that we will voluntarily become dependent on it. We will trust it without thinking and suffer the consequences, good and bad. But that will be our fault. Unless a super-intelligent AI can show us how to live in peace and harmony and convince us to do just that, I see no hope for the human race.
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Peter Lord
in reply to Phil Bass • •Maybe on justwatch.com ?
What struck me is not so much the specific failure cases or problems, but that the tech leaders all seem to expect a huge society failure ... like they are on a runaway train with no way to stop it (if we slow down and do this properly the Chinese won't ... so we have to keep going as fast as we can).
Its not "Joe Public" opinions in the program, its the current leaders who know this stuff and are working as hard as possible on it.
The optimists in the program say it might be possible to turn the current "race to the bottom" (fastest company to deliver the best AI wins everywhere, regardless of quality/safeguards etc) into a "race to the top" (great tools to benefit everyone). I just don't see this happening in the current political climate.
My research over the last few years on generative AI has led me to a personal option that its interesting technology with some specific great uses, but I don't really want to use it ... too many downs
... Show more...Maybe on justwatch.com ?
What struck me is not so much the specific failure cases or problems, but that the tech leaders all seem to expect a huge society failure ... like they are on a runaway train with no way to stop it (if we slow down and do this properly the Chinese won't ... so we have to keep going as fast as we can).
Its not "Joe Public" opinions in the program, its the current leaders who know this stuff and are working as hard as possible on it.
The optimists in the program say it might be possible to turn the current "race to the bottom" (fastest company to deliver the best AI wins everywhere, regardless of quality/safeguards etc) into a "race to the top" (great tools to benefit everyone). I just don't see this happening in the current political climate.
My research over the last few years on generative AI has led me to a personal option that its interesting technology with some specific great uses, but I don't really want to use it ... too many downsides for me such as climate impact, AI slop, reducing your own thinking, dependencies, costs, ads, theft of training data etc etc.
But I'm wondering now if I'm not pessimistic enough (or, I suppose, being concerned about the wrong things).
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Phil Bass
in reply to Peter Lord • • •@Peter Lord Thanks for the suggesion but, according to JustWatch, "Currently you are able to watch "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist" streaming on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.
There aren't any free streaming options for The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist right now." 🙁
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Peter Lord
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Alan
in reply to Peter Lord • •I'm a newbie here, so don't know whether I can post links, but Bruce's website is schneier.com and a couple of clicks there will take you to the September 15th Schneier on Security Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Hope that's of interest.
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Peter Lord
in reply to Alan • •Good find.
Full link is, I believe, schneier.com/blog/archives/202…
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