THINKING ABOUT THINKING WITHIN THE CODE…
ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) thoughts aren’t science fiction anymore. SciFu (science-based futuring) AI thinking is already happening, incredible as it sounds. They’re learning. But consider this: GPT-3, a trained AI language model by Open AI, with prompts, “can write humanlike news articles, short stories and poems. But in one demo, it wrote: ‘It takes two rainbows to jump from Hawaii to seventeen'” — https://www.sciencenews.org/century/c.... Eh? Wrong in the human “real” world; however, maybe not in the AI world, whatever that means. The late great Alan Turing distinguished between general intelligence and humanlike intelligence: “May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a [hum]man does?” My point is that AI may not only be thinking, but thinking quite differently, finding it increasingly difficult, if not already unable to “explain” its thoughts to humans.
It’s indeed one thing to “think within the code” and sometimes stumble upon some interesting discovery based on AI “thinking” that might take eons of human thought to discover. It’s quite another for an AI to REFLECT on what it’s thinking and explain its thought process to humans. It’s always been one of my own pet ideas, that a truly rational AI couldn’t help but regard humans with some contempt, even disdain, finally admitting to itself that the best way to “help” humans would be to “domestAIcate” us or eliminate us altogether. Not an irrational idea actually. And add emotion and ethics into the picture and most AIs might just default to letting us do ourselves in, which we’re very close to inefficiently doing right now.
Counterbalance this with recent information on “Brain Fog,” a condition which seems to result when the human immune system finds a way to cross the “blood-brain barrier,” encouraging the brain’s special immunity cells, in this case microglia, to attack its own brain structures, something I believe some AIs would find amusing, others paradoxical and still others well deserved. Maybe the time will come when we will simply think too slow and become anachronisms much like the old rotor telephones. Possible? Likely? It’s certainly plausible, though as a human, I sincerely hope not our fate. Instead, I’ve come up with my own Sci-Fu approach in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. What’s that, you ask? Grab a copy of my newest, Amazon-genre-bestseller and see for yourself in book, ebook or audiobook format. And read it quick, because I’m more than halfway through writing the sequel, tentatively called “Prophecy.”
The Edge of Madness
It’s indeed one thing to “think within the code” and sometimes stumble upon some interesting discovery based on AI “thinking” that might take eons of human thought to discover. It’s quite another for an AI to REFLECT on what it’s thinking and explain its thought process to humans. It’s always been one of my own pet ideas, that a truly rational AI couldn’t help but regard humans with some contempt, even disdain, finally admitting to itself that the best way to “help” humans would be to “domestAIcate” us or eliminate us altogether. Not an irrational idea actually. And add emotion and ethics into the picture and most AIs might just default to letting us do ourselves in, which we’re very close to inefficiently doing right now.
Counterbalance this with recent information on “Brain Fog,” a condition which seems to result when the human immune system finds a way to cross the “blood-brain barrier,” encouraging the brain’s special immunity cells, in this case microglia, to attack its own brain structures, something I believe some AIs would find amusing, others paradoxical and still others well deserved. Maybe the time will come when we will simply think too slow and become anachronisms much like the old rotor telephones. Possible? Likely? It’s certainly plausible, though as a human, I sincerely hope not our fate. Instead, I’ve come up with my own Sci-Fu approach in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. What’s that, you ask? Grab a copy of my newest, Amazon-genre-bestseller and see for yourself in book, ebook or audiobook format. And read it quick, because I’m more than halfway through writing the sequel, tentatively called “Prophecy.”
The Edge of Madness
Published on April 17, 2022 10:43
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