Beware of AI!

Double Vision

Antonio V. Figueroa

It’s a case of human intelligence yielding its superiority to artificial intelligence (AI), which is a creation by brilliant minds who pulled together to make earthly living more convenient.

The rise of AI, which is strongly represented in the robots have been slowly taking over industries, bistros, and malls, brings a new dimension on how a futuristic community will operate with very little, if nothing at all, human intervention.

In Japan, for instance, there is a tourist hotel that is almost fully automated, where the only person that keeps the electronic lines and circuits of the establishment running is the maintenance man, presumably an IT expert. From checking in to exiting, everything relies on a lifeless billeting without human interaction that conveys an environment that does not exhibit emotion.

 Even by using the online ChatGPT, AI is nothing but a passive virtual exchange of knowledge between an invisible thingamabob its creator. Because of the level of sophistication involved, AI has attained a layer where a human becomes dependent on the non-didactic ideas of robots.

While AI channels are at the disposal of their human creators, the complex programs introduced in them can always go haywire. If that happens, the impact such trouble produces cannot just be undone on short notice, not even by shutting down the power system. There is no guarantee the AI platforms can be automatically locked down.

The impact of AI in the academia is even more unsettling. A number of universities has already encouraged its use in deciphering mysterious archaeological finds. Moreso, the foods that have been man’s intake for millennia are being modified using the same robotic advancement.

Putting the world on a wobbly pedestal while tapping the AI as a key part of decision-making may not be entirely bad given that today’s social behavior is manipulated by the laws politicos create. Because a democracy is said to be governed by laws, one wonders how a passive and indisputably unemotional AI will look at impressions that need humanitarian compassion.

AIs are not entirely detestable because they allow us to see the bigger side of things we want to understand deeper. Still, that does not justify the fact that human communication carries complex manifestations that robots cannot understand. That said, we are also subject to AI manipulations when it comes tointeracting with people with bad intentions.

Let’s make sense on how great leaders and minds say about AI.

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist of New York Times: “The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.”

Elon Musk, owner of Twitter: “I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.”

Larry Page, American billionaire business magnate, computer scientist and internet entrepreneur: “Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.”

Gemma Whelan, English actress and comedian: “I’m more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence – in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn’t ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn’t seem completely unrealistic anymore. It’s a bit chilling.” (AVF)

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