Dumb Robots Falling Down
However man merging with robotics can be scary....
Posted on 07/26/2017 8:47:25 AM PDT by wildbill
The question is who are they doing good for?
The populous that they claim to serve?
Or the power mad bureaucrats who are serving themselves?
bkmk
Box of rocks would.......................
I re-read dune sometime around 2009, having first read it in college many moons ago.
The intervening years and knowledge gained post 2001 ... yeah, it felt like reading a sci-fi apologia for *slam.
No, thanks, done with that, don’t need anymore.
Right now, the most likely and potentially frightening use of AI will be when TPTB discover that the best way to ration health care is via an all-encompassing medical AI. Who needs “death panels” when the AI can make all the tough decisions for you? Got an expensive disease? Not able to be a viable economic contributor to society??? Off to Carousel with you.
(gratuitous Logan’s Run reference)
Obviously this can’t quite happen yet, in part because a particular political bloc needs unviable economic non-contributors as their voting power bloc. However, once capitalism and democracy are on the ash heap of history and the oligarchs have cemented their grip on power, hey, the sky’s the limit, right?
That’s as scary as it is believable.
I’m pretty certain such algorithms and ‘trend projections’ are already in use by actuarial tables.
This will only increase in speed and efficiency, devoid of any humanity, unless even that trait can somehow be fed into the software.
What people are scared of is the loss of freedom and individualism as more aspects of life become regulated in the name of safety and uniformity by power mad do good bureaucrats
....which are completely enforceable by computers. In fact, following exact rules are what they're designed to do.
Hit 36 in a 35 on your way to work? That's a point on your license and your insurance goes up. Seat Belt not buckled, or you had one beer with dinner? Your car won't start. Cholesterol a little high? No McD's for you, and forget about picking up something tasty at the grocery store. Get to work at 8:03 instead of 7:59? Your boss will be notified, expect a visit from HR later that day.
And so on. I've talked to people who say the latter is already enforced via nametags/badges, especially at conventions. Can't have people hitting the slots in Vegas when they're supposed to be at sales meetings.
And it's all for our own good. No AI needed, just a little more regulation and a PC to enforce it.
“You obviously have never met Siri! Sheesh!!! *rolleyes*”
Siri: “Write me a fully-compatible Windows Pro x64 clone OS.”
You need to brush up on adiabatic quantum computers. The Quantum Bits can be in a zero or one state simultaneously, not to mention other curiousities about how they function.
There is no such thing as true AI. Computers will always be
zero’s and ones programmed to act in such and such a way. What people are scared of is the loss of freedom and individualism as more aspects of life become regulated in the name of safety and uniformity by power mad do good bureaucrats.
However, the FUNCTIONALITY of computer hardware and software systems, along with the growth of mechanical appendages to those systems (ie, robots) is growing at a pace that will conceivably make a large fraction (maybe greater than 50%) of the population unemployable in the future.
AI doesn’t have to be conscious to take away jobs.
The loss of jobs to AI is real, continuing and unstoppable.
10 Amazing Robots That Really Exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ_-yb-TN9M
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