Education education education god dammit. The only thing that can save our planet and mankind from mankind is free and mandatory quality education all over the world. Teacher should be the best paid and praised job in the world. This is where investment should be made to hope for benefits in two generations… But we are doomed aren’t we?
AI enhances the threat of stupidity because it allows people to be stupid faster and in greater volumes.
But it makes people stupid in smarter ways
Not really, it only seems that way
He has a point.
Except that we as humans learned to handle stupidity for the last 5000 years. AI is only 5 years old. We need to learn to handle it.
I wouldn’t really call the stupid situation “handled”…
It’s more like we have no choice in the matter and must tolerate it.
It is more like we have no choice in the matter and must hope it won’t destroy our species before we find a way to make it less dangerous.
AI is a tool, how it will be used is dependent on humans - I think that is what he is referring to. So rather close to what you say - but a bit different perspective.
The title made me think of something completely different from what he actually said (the quotes are in the article).
- He specifically talks about national stupidity, not individual or people/citizen stupidity
- He says the technology is neutral, the concern is in how it is being used
What they’re saying is not that “stupidity is a bigger threat than AI”. They’re not separate ideas. He says he is worried about how AI is being used more than the technology and technological development itself.
“With this in mind, artificial intelligence is a tool. It is an algorithm made by humans, that is run by computers made by humans, that controls machines made by humans. I am more afraid, more worried [about] national stupidity than artificial intelligence to be honest,” he added.
“I have a scientific background, so I definitely consider technology as neutral. The problem is the user, not the technology itself.”
Unfortunately we all know how it will be used and who will benefit.
I don’t think we do.
Kapital owners who will own AI as mean of production.
Can you tell me next weeks lottery numbers too?
That is the likely outcome but its by no means certain. If you’d have asked in 1800 its likely people would have said the aristocracy would get all the benefit from industrialisation but that ended up not being how things went
Sure, in the meaning that everything is uncertain.
To say that you know something implies a very high level of certainty. I know that the sun will rise tomorrow morning, that I need air to breathe and water freezes at 0 degrees. No one “knows” how society will be shaped in 20 years time, so no we do not know how it will be used and who will benefit.
Or, colloquially it’s used to describe something you just expect to happen. It does not mean that one literally knows. Obviously it’s more tricky with online communication since you don’t know me and don’t see my face.
This may turn out to be an incredibly ironic statement
I guess I can’t argue with that. Probably because I’m one of the stupid people.
An interesting take, from the missile builder.
Seriously… find myself agreeing with some strange bedfellows lately
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