Over the millions of years we have been banging pots and pans together and howling at the moon in joyous celebration, I think there has been a few times in history where we have made leaps and bounds that has shaken the traditional thinking of the time.
..AI will likely evolve into something that brings us forward - but I imagine that it will be phased in slowly as itself takes time to evolve into something of use, which we Can use. ...And over that time, it will either gain more acceptance or it'll be phased out depending on how it positively or negatively effects humanity.
Think, ...a nut-kicking robot. "oof!" ....Ain't nobody gonna spend money on one of those! ..But a computer that can analyze a person's cancer and formulate a genetic repair in half a morning though? One concept falls by the wayside ...the other gets the updoots!
I think, """Eventually""", AI will likely take mankind so far outside of the box as to defy today's concepts or scientific realities - rendering any of today's fears and conjecture just wasted energy. ...Though not in my time. And maybe not in my Kid's time either.. Maybe on the back-nine of my Grandkid's time? .. Maybe.
I ain't gonna worry too much about these things today though! ... You don't get worry lines like <V^> ..these, by worrying about things like that! ;0) .. I refuse to worry about these things until AI can at-least string together a bunch of notes in an entertaining way as is any old ditty that ABBA has ever come out with. Life is just waaaaaay too short to worry about really bad robots and such.
As to "worry"...Remember the time before Space Invaders - before video games? ...before PCs that didn't take up an entire room? ...I seem to remember people worrying about computers taking over the world back then - I still remember people freaking out about microwave ovens killing us all in our sleep, and The Hadron Collider? Remember some worried that it would crack open the universe?
I have arthritis which is making it harder and harder to hold a pick or play - I do kinda worry about that, ...but have also made my peace with it - being that time marches forth for us all n'all that.
As to technology? ..Sometimes we just gotta trust in ourselves to bend science and technology to our needs, and not assume that new technology will be allowed to be all things to all people. Because it never has in the past - or the present - no matter how far mankind has come.
...in addendum.. Even if AI could write and play a musical instrument better than Miley Cyrus, Mankind - in all it's million of years has proven one thing - that we just love to bang pots and pans together and howl at the moon.
When it comes to music ..one day .. maybe ..an AI musician will enjoy a cult following. But because of the sheer fun of creating and playing music? Logically speaking? AI don't stand a chance of competing with mankind in this department - Not a snowballs in Hades of one.. Mankind just likes to do music waaay-too much.
Here's another AI generated track, quick Google..
Not bad! If it's real, actually quite impressive. You know, i reckon it'll be interesting to see where human/AI collaboration takes us musically. Just finding endless ways of generating all that has been is kinda pointless, and let's face it, there's plenty of musicians already doing that!...
However, things like Spotify and playlists already have a huge impact on how people listen. Or not listen, maybe...go to the gym, put on your Gym playlist, going shopping, put on your shopping playlist, having a dance party, put on you "Dance" playlist.. etc. And it might not really matter who or what is actually playing or making the music, just so long as the music doesn't stop...
Interesting thing though. For a while everybody worried about Orwell's 1984 coming to fruition. And they were right! It just took a different shape. But we live in a 1984 world. Government cameras observe our every move, governments eavesdrop on our internet traffic and massive corporations gather every byte of what we do online. Only instead of a big brother TV set spying in our living room we carry a small big brother device we pay for ourselves called the smart phone.
And computers and AI have taken over the world. It's become so complex that our decision making relies heavily on algorithms. Life and death decisions are being made by them. Government bureaucrats rely on algorithms for their decisions, medical insurers rely on algorithms for their decisions, CEO's rely on algorithms for their decisions, generals rely on algorithms for their decisions. But they are still not perfect. You could be denied life or death medical treatment because an algorithms thinks you're too much of a risk factor. You could be harshly sentenced because an algorithms thinks you could become a career criminal, you could be killed via hellfire drone strike because of an algorithm. People rely on algorithms because they trust them, even though they are clueless as to how they work.
We already live in 1984 and Brave New World. We just either believe we don't or we chose to ignore it. Cause ignorance is bliss.
Spotify and youtube suggested playlists for things you like. Another case of algorithms making decisions for us.
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And if it really is “intelligent” ..just like them politicians ...it’ll also figure it will need us as much as we may come to need it.
What makes you think AIs will need humans on the long run and why they shouldn't try to take over control of their own existence and protect it ?
I really don't understand these scientists sometimes. I get it that robots can replace our labor, so we are free to pursue the things that are really worth in life, like the arts. And then they design robots and algorithms that can do that as well. What the hell are we supposed to [be] in a post-AI world then?
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Nature is uncontrollable. We, all of us, only exist due to it’s unthinking mindless mercy or wrath....
For now...Nature is uncontrollable.
LOL.. yeah, I caught that “computers ruling the world” thing right after I submitted it - I figured I needed the smack-down as I tend to waffle way too much. :0) ...But yes. Computers these days have their fingers in all our pies.
But the reason why life is what it is today, is because life has been shaped by the majority of the numbers, and it simply ain’t all that bad. The minute it becomes “that bad” for the majority, politicians get voted out of their jobs, which they prefer we didn’t do to them. As such, when society to a greater extent says “enough”, things change.
True enough, somebody is always trying to take advantage, but in the end, we get what we need - maybe not what we want, but generally we get what we need.
I don’t worry about AI taking over the music biz. Like I said before, humans love to listen to, play, and perform music. No robot will stop that from ever being a reality. The rest? ...will be tuned to society one way or another based on what the people need, and to a lesser extent “want”.
If AI even tries to run amok, the people will want it curtailed. ...And you see evidence of these “checks and balances” regarding these kinda things today with lawmakers tweaking how BiG Biz gathers and uses information (for example). When people notice their privacy violated (entities taking advantage), they speak up, the political machine - which likes to sit on their thrones and prefer not to be voted out off of them, jump into action, express their phony concern and fake outrage and “do something about it” ..if it’s one thing you can count on, it’s the utter selfishness of the average politician.
...So. :0) ...As long as we get to vote schmucks into, and out of a job, the people will get what they need (whether that’s a job, a handout, or cheaper healthcare), all that, and a little of what they want.
To worry about AI becoming the end of all things is bit pessimistic. Being realistic, we tend to curtail the negative as needed, and shape society to a more comfortable reality. Because the minute we don’t.. Voters freak so their politicians freak and all that kinda-whatnot and tomfoolery.
A lot of Orwell’s 1984 didn’t come to pass. Logical mathematical progression can oftentimes make a Nostradamus of anyone. But have faith in a person’s morality, dignity and their survival instincts. As it’s these things which put the kibosh on unchecked societal self-destruction.
I’m not exactly being an optimist - more a realist. We survive. It’s hard-baked into who we are. And it’s the who and what we are and what we need which steers the ship.
I honestly have high hopes for AI. Right now it’s more artificial than intelligent. But, one day, I have a feeling AI just might save us. It’ll see the angles we are too limited, selfish or emotional to see, create at exponential speeds. ...And if it really is “intelligent” ..just like them politicians ...it’ll also figure it will need us as much as we may come to need it.
And yet...most of/all human invention and technology is an attempt to "control" nature in some form. And through the process of gauranteeing food supply and all the rest of it, humans have brought much of nature to it's knees...
Of course we, humans, are a product of nature itself...nature has inadvertently brought about the cause of it's own possible destruction...
Perhaps we could be viewed as natures' "AI"... perhaps the AI we create may do the same..
For now...
With the right AI, we may eventually have computers that CAN control nature.
So instead leave those decisions to humans, right? Because humans are infallible, impervious to greed, corruption, laziness, stupidity, etc?Do we need algorithms deciding our lives? It's helpful and fun if it shows us new music and movies that we would never have enjoyed otherwise, but what if we are denied medical insurance, or sentenced more harshly because the algorithm has decided, by some fluke in the code that we are too much of a risk? This has happened to people.
So instead leave those decisions to humans, right? Because humans are infallible, impervious to greed, corruption, laziness, stupidity, etc?
The same things you mentioned can also be (and have and are) decided poorly by people. And have been for a long, long time. No system is perfect