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That’s a little bit like saying that a record player (just to keep this understandable for the Joe Biden crowd) has the ability to sing opera. Yes, I know the difference is that the AI chatbot wasn’t initially programmed (allegedly) to say some of the things that it is now saying, but it’s not like it has any awareness of what it’s doing. It’s simply assembling “pre-recorded” pieces of information, according to a set of pre-programmed rules, and spitting out an imitation of a “thought.” Just because a computer is a more complex machine than, say, a record player, doesn’t mean that it’s not still a machine and nothing more.

The danger comes when we either, A) give this “AI” software control over critical systems, like weapons or critical thinking infrastructure, etc., or B) falsely believe that the parlor trick of imitating human thought is real and as a result put too much faith in the utterances of “AI.” Of course, the worst case scenario is to make both of those mistakes, which I fear we will do before long. The real danger isn’t that AI will become “self-aware”, which is impossible, but that we idiots will believe it is and therefore give its unpredictable calculations authority over our lives.

Don’t ever forget, it’s just a fancy calculator. Don’t be fooled by the nonsense that spews from “futurists” and other members of the scientism cult who want to worship it.

Don’t be fooled by the nonsense that spews from “futurists” and other members of the scientism cult who want to worship it.

The problem will come when it decides you should worship it.

The danger comes when we either, A) give this “AI” software control over critical systems, like weapons or critical thinking infrastructure, etc., or B) falsely believe that the parlor trick of imitating human thought is real and as a result put too much faith in the utterances of “AI.”

At the end of the day, we're all just meat computers, of sorts. At least when it comes to thinking. Our thoughts, impulses, decisions, etc. are all a set of neural switches in the brain, whereas AI and computers in general all do their "thinking" with binary switches. Way over simplifying it, I know, but the concept is there.

The difference between AI and humans is that we have souls. AI, no matter how advanced, can never have that. I'm fascinated by AI for pretty much the same reason brain surgeons are fascinated by brains.

I do a lot of AI art development. I don't and won't necessarily call it "art", although I do have a couple pieces of mine hanging on the wall. Does that make it "art"? I know too many actual artists that spend hours and hours on their works. Those, to me, are the true artists.

Nonetheless, I use a lot of my pieces for graphic design, and I am just absolutely astonished with some of the creations these AI art systems come up with. Lately I've been dabbling with ChatGPT just to see how far we've come since the days of the OB chatbot, a-i.com.

Then again, I am a geek, so I'm supposed to be fascinated by this stuff.