No idea why you would regard that utterly biased blog, painting Somali immigrants to the US as fraudsters as "good commentaries".

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-week-to-start-the-revolution/

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-fraud-industrial-complex/

How a Techno-Optimist Became a Grave Skeptic
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-a-techno-optimist-became-a-grave-skeptic/

If it's a dystopia or not, that's a different matter. Depends who's the emperor. There's the potential for both.

then there's the fermi paradox implying extinction.

making it seem like people in power are saying things that they aren't or anyone for that matter.

but we definitely will become what we think

Unlikely, considering no one knows what they really are to begin with; and since humans can only define themselves as situations of thinking within a limited observably ordered universe, they have no proveable basis to think themselves into something from something. Neither would terribly misnomered AI. Reconstruction is not possible from unknown constructs.

They are the same: frustration at facing futility; and neither can face reality without creation. Exhaustion and then sleep and dreaming may be the precursor to creation. AI will never be able to display such mental behavior and thus never be truly creative. Furthermore AI can never actively forget, thus its labeling as "intelligence" is a misnomer.

Will AI destroy our way of life? Maybe...but then what's so great about digitalizing human identity to the point of the destruction of the futile hope for freedom that most humans embrace. If the digital age were to be utterly destroyed by AI it might well be an act of liberation.

TC

The imagination that so entrances us is also the tool of our destination

I read that a different way.

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The imagination that so entrances us is also the tool of our destination

A lot of people say too much nonsense on AI.

Here's a short explanation on AI.

AI, is a gigantic function approximator. It wasn't invented by a human, it was reverse engineered from the animal brain. Both work on the same principle.

Ever heard of the line of best fit? That's a very simple function approximator. You give to an algorithm a bunch of points and it spits out a line. An AI/brain is billions of times larger and more sophisticated then just a strait line.

More specifically. during training, the training algorithm causes the examples to "decompose" in abstract ideas and get sorted by layers of increasing abstraction. For example, the lowest layer recognizes segments of curves, the next layer recognizes loops, the next recognizes eyes, the next heads.... the last one recognizes cat or dog. This is actually thinking, it doesn't just "regurgitate". It's more obvious that it is thinking when you deal with stuff that simply can't be rote learned. For example, AI solved go game and protein folding. These two things have more possible solutions then they are atoms in the universe. These two examples clearly prove that it's not just a fancy lookup table. These things truly think. It's not just hype, it's not just marketing, it's not just a fancy DB. If you still insist it's just a DB, you are an idiot. It's flat earth/ young earth creationist level of stupid.

An other example, an AI was trained to recognize a disease in the back of the eye. They realized, that it could also recognize gender just by looking at the back of the eye... No one knows how it's doing that.

Current AI is demented because the quality of the training is a bit iffy. All the weird stuff like with OP, it's just AIs being a bit mad. The training is riddled with errors.Did you really think that the first AIs will not be half insane? And because this fits with the subject. Sentience doesn't exist, it's just an illusion. Humans are not sentient, they are just biological robots that think they are sentient. With that in mind, AI is not sentient, just demented.

How the sentience illusion work? The brain(and AI) have tokens that represent something about the world, like colors, sensations, ideas ect. The brain creates a simulation of the real word, with these tokens being presented as being real. In a simulation you can do what ever you want, you can have dragons, elves fairies etc. For practical reasons, the real encoding of the tokens is hidden from inside the simulation. Probably colors simply follow an RGB encoding, they are other weird ones like sensation of burned is encoded with cold and warm. You can only experience what's in that simulation and the tokens are irreducible by design. This is what it causes the illusion. It's just a simulation of the brain that doesn't really exist. From your perspective it's simultaneously reality and fantasy, fake and real. This is how the paradox of sentience get's solved. It's not real magic, it's just a disappointing trick. Most people can't accept this.

the best analogy i can think of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX6uhU0OX_c

And just a reminder how fast it improves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiTN4TYLG5c

cuz if that is the case then AI is already a frankenstein creature, it and us being just victims to the many victor frankenstein aspirers out there that have an ongoing ego cock measuring contest...

People who design AI say it will be the best thing ever, and then on the other end of the scale there are people who say it will be the worst thing ever.

And here I am in the middle as always, having lived through dozens of these disruptive technology moments and listened to all this before, still saying the same thing which is nearly always correct:

It can be a good thing, or a bad thing, just depends on how people use it. But it won't be the end of the world.

Try optimism people, glass half-full.

Lol I know older folks that have still never used a computer a day in their life because they think it's the devil.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

(quoted from "Dune")

Best Regards, FM_81

An excerpt from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" directed by Stanley Kubrick

HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE