Technological developments (of with Artificial Intelligence & its associated technologies) is merely the most recent, especially in the information age, have prioritised speeding up over other measures of success...
But, actually humanity is all about things taking time, allowing for reflection on direction(s) taken & friction(s) that may prompt different thoughts & solutions.
Is the biggest threat AI poses the draining of such possibilities from working & social relations?
@ChrisMayLA6 Based on what I've seen in a US company, AI has completely destroyed any capacity for critical thought, and also any capacity for reading and writing emails.
I see senior managers burping up AI slogans, when asked for their strategy, they take the question, asks an AI an burp up the answer, almost unfiltered.
Should an email with a longer text arrive, it is either ignored, or one is asked to use an AI to cut it down to a few paragraphs.
But I think, just like with smartphones,
@ChrisMayLA6 we're currently in the stage when we idolize our new toy, without realizing the dangers.
After a couple of million (or billion) dollar mistakes, people might become interested in actually thinking through what they are doing.
Other hits of these managers, is blatant breaches of GDPR by recording all interactions with customers, without any warning at all.
Needless to say, this company is no longer a customer of mine, because I told them this was
@ChrisMayLA6 foolish, and they could not take critique.
Sigh... such is the way of the honest libertarian who uses markets as tools, and not as a god. Such is the way of the long-term profit maximizer.
Yes, I agree; the harms of AI, like smartphone will become ever clearer, then the issue is what is the politico-social repose (see post a couple of days on the analogy with smoking)
@ChrisMayLA6 I do fear that, since we have our smartphones use in fresh memory, there will be an overreaction.
AI does have its uses, and it is a beneficial technology in some places. I hope that we won't limit those cases when we react against the cases where AI has no place.
@ChrisMayLA6 Also keep in mind, that currently AI is limited in scope to LLM:s. AI is much, much more than that. OCR, voice recognition, self-driving cars, machine learning, automated cancer diagnostics etc. etc.
The thing is that those areas are clearly defined, and proven to work excellently and better than humans, so it is boring to write about.
Those things have just melted into the background and become something we interact with or use every day without thinking much about it.
Yes, that's when technology is both most powerful (when its not noticed) but, of course, potentially most dangerous
@ChrisMayLA6 True. It is very concerning that the technical skill among the politicians is so low.
At the same time, it is also logical. The salaries paid, compared with the salaries the tech elite are getting, are so low, that the best talent does not flock to the public sector.
yes, as they say over here: if you pay peanuts you get monkeys
@ChrisMayLA6 At the same time, the public sector cannot pay too much, and thus lure away top talent from private industry which generates tax money.
@h4890
The emerging consensus in replies to various posts on AI over the last few months is that there is an acceptance it can be quite useful in a 'walled garden' where is application & deployment is well configured & understood.... its the wider general & unconstrained use where the problems start to multiply