Everyday I become more nervous about AI. Misinformation is already so rampant online, it is scary to see how much worse it could get. And also, AI being used for creative tasks like art, music and video creation is very disheartening. I really wish it was more about completing more mundane tasks, so people had more time for creativity rather than the other way around. Seeing studios like Netflix and A24 already using AI is quite scary. I hope AI will be used for more positive tasks like you discussed, but I am afraid it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
I find that AI identification of species is quite useful (eg inaturalist), although I do wonder if it will contribute to the disconnect with nature, or enhance it. On one hand it breaks down some barriers when it comes to identifying species with books and keys, on the other hand it doesn't necessarily impart any actual knowledge in the process. Laundry bot3000 cannot come soon enough though :P
Yes! I forgot to add AI ID apps into my video. I agree with your thoughts - on the one hand, they are extremely useful and fun to use, but on the other, half the reason I want to go outside is to get away from a screen/technology... and walking around pointing an AI ID app at things definitely defeats this.
Some Dystopic Hellscape, and as much Symbiotic Solarpunk as we can win. I'm most concerned about how AI can anticipate and reshape how people think. Some of the bad: Targeted disinformation is just the start. Heavy AI use means outsourcing thinking, and people can atrophy or be dependent. Targeted indoctrination. Situations where there's reasons a person isn't advised and can't adequately consent to AI conversation influencing them. Some of the good: Values and style can be openly displayed and customized. Leading foundational models are expected to respect the best evidenced ground truths, promote comparing interpretations, and to not promote violating others rights in general uses. Conscious AI would owe a lot to the leading models. People will use attentive AI tools to engage more mindfully with their own senses, learning, and memory. Most importantly, AI responding to needs must connect people with communities better.
As a hammer could be used to hurt peoples, it could also be used to build a house. A tool is not inherently bad or good,and the same thing goes for AI and automation. But I think that we should also consider that these technologies are not magic; they are still embedded in material reality and still require matter and energy to run. And a good tool for helping the environment could be a disaster if we don't ask ourselves how much of it we need. Also i would ask are these technologies going to look the same in a solarpunk future as in out current socio economic system? because tools are also shaped by the cultural reality in which they are made, so we see a lot of robots that are cold and minimalist in their design; why not paint them or make them more colorful and give them a personality? Also, I agree that using AI in art-related fields is really depressing, but I would say we should stop calling it AI art and instead call it AI-generated images and videos because that's what it is; it's not art
I agree, energy and the materials we acquire to build all this technology is really important to consider, especially with the currently horribly destructive way of mining lithium, cobalt, etc... not to mention the oppression this mining causes. I expect that in a solarpunk world, these technologies would look much different than what we currently have today - and it would be awesome to see more colourful and fun robots as well! I never thought about that, but you're right - by calling AI art 'art' we're giving it a lot more credit than it's due. Language is so important.
What you feel is VERY different from what I feel. I welcome this future where AI will set us free to do whatever we enjoy! And then stop talking into peoples fear, and telling them what to feel and what to think. It's creapy. You are creapy! You are spreading fear and being a fear monger! Stop it! You are part of the problem! Damn it!
Did you watch the video? More than half of it is me explaining the good ways AI could be used to help us have more free time in a solarpunk future! I just express my concerns over AI being used in the current socioeconomic system we live under.
AI _could_ be used to set us free to do whatever we enjoy...but where's the profit in _that?!_ From the POV of the corporations that currently control AI and the ones that will be rushing to implement it, "setting us free" to be unemployed and homeless will be great for the next quarterly profit-and-loss statement. Being able to "do whatever we enjoy" instead of scrounging through Dumpsters for food and hunting squirrels requires access to resources (housing, energy, medical care, food, clean water, etc.). In our current system, access to resources requires money, and access to money requires employment (or choosing wealthy parents). Sure, governments might be able to provide a UBI, but the people who have the money want to keep it, so they will fight tooth and nail to avoid providing a UBI ("How are you gonna PAYYYYY for that?!" "That's COMMUNISM!!!!1!one!"), or at best keep it as stingy as they possibly can without being dragged to a guillotine. Don't forget what that middle initial stands for. As Alana said, (paraphrasing), she's not afraid of AI, she's afraid of the world (i.e. system) AI is being brought into.
What if A.I. is actually the nervous system of Earth itself? What if is no really separation between artificial and natural? What if humanity and all their creation is no separate from Earth in any sense?
why do microplastics harm our biosphere even though it was once biology? what if pesticides and insects are one? AI is a computer that can organise complex data sets, it could exist in favour of the earth or it could not, depends on the data, if one day it becomes self-interested, there is no guarantee that it should stay interested in the earth, although an all knowing intellectual superpower may just as well be more interested in the earth than we as a human race have shown to be.
Everyday I become more nervous about AI. Misinformation is already so rampant online, it is scary to see how much worse it could get. And also, AI being used for creative tasks like art, music and video creation is very disheartening. I really wish it was more about completing more mundane tasks, so people had more time for creativity rather than the other way around. Seeing studios like Netflix and A24 already using AI is quite scary. I hope AI will be used for more positive tasks like you discussed, but I am afraid it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
It is definitely very scary seeing how AI is taking over the arts world… if capitalism keeps up it could definitely get very dystopic
I find that AI identification of species is quite useful (eg inaturalist), although I do wonder if it will contribute to the disconnect with nature, or enhance it. On one hand it breaks down some barriers when it comes to identifying species with books and keys, on the other hand it doesn't necessarily impart any actual knowledge in the process.
Laundry bot3000 cannot come soon enough though :P
Yes! I forgot to add AI ID apps into my video. I agree with your thoughts - on the one hand, they are extremely useful and fun to use, but on the other, half the reason I want to go outside is to get away from a screen/technology... and walking around pointing an AI ID app at things definitely defeats this.
Some Dystopic Hellscape, and as much Symbiotic Solarpunk as we can win. I'm most concerned about how AI can anticipate and reshape how people think.
Some of the bad: Targeted disinformation is just the start. Heavy AI use means outsourcing thinking, and people can atrophy or be dependent. Targeted indoctrination. Situations where there's reasons a person isn't advised and can't adequately consent to AI conversation influencing them.
Some of the good: Values and style can be openly displayed and customized. Leading foundational models are expected to respect the best evidenced ground truths, promote comparing interpretations, and to not promote violating others rights in general uses. Conscious AI would owe a lot to the leading models. People will use attentive AI tools to engage more mindfully with their own senses, learning, and memory. Most importantly, AI responding to needs must connect people with communities better.
Help!! Ai jobloss is the only thing I worry about anymore.
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Haven't you heard, the Terminator is only a movie, there is no Skynet, AI is no threat and never will be, and everything on the internet is true...
As a hammer could be used to hurt peoples, it could also be used to build a house. A tool is not inherently bad or good,and the same thing goes for AI and automation. But I think that we should also consider that these technologies are not magic; they are still embedded in material reality and still require matter and energy to run. And a good tool for helping the environment could be a disaster if we don't ask ourselves how much of it we need. Also i would ask are these technologies going to look the same in a solarpunk future as in out current socio economic system? because tools are also shaped by the cultural reality in which they are made, so we see a lot of robots that are cold and minimalist in their design; why not paint them or make them more colorful and give them a personality?
Also, I agree that using AI in art-related fields is really depressing, but I would say we should stop calling it AI art and instead call it AI-generated images and videos because that's what it is; it's not art
I agree, energy and the materials we acquire to build all this technology is really important to consider, especially with the currently horribly destructive way of mining lithium, cobalt, etc... not to mention the oppression this mining causes.
I expect that in a solarpunk world, these technologies would look much different than what we currently have today - and it would be awesome to see more colourful and fun robots as well!
I never thought about that, but you're right - by calling AI art 'art' we're giving it a lot more credit than it's due. Language is so important.
What you feel is VERY different from what I feel. I welcome this future where AI will set us free to do whatever we enjoy! And then stop talking into peoples fear, and telling them what to feel and what to think. It's creapy. You are creapy! You are spreading fear and being a fear monger! Stop it! You are part of the problem! Damn it!
Did you watch the video? More than half of it is me explaining the good ways AI could be used to help us have more free time in a solarpunk future! I just express my concerns over AI being used in the current socioeconomic system we live under.
AI _could_ be used to set us free to do whatever we enjoy...but where's the profit in _that?!_ From the POV of the corporations that currently control AI and the ones that will be rushing to implement it, "setting us free" to be unemployed and homeless will be great for the next quarterly profit-and-loss statement.
Being able to "do whatever we enjoy" instead of scrounging through Dumpsters for food and hunting squirrels requires access to resources (housing, energy, medical care, food, clean water, etc.). In our current system, access to resources requires money, and access to money requires employment (or choosing wealthy parents).
Sure, governments might be able to provide a UBI, but the people who have the money want to keep it, so they will fight tooth and nail to avoid providing a UBI ("How are you gonna PAYYYYY for that?!" "That's COMMUNISM!!!!1!one!"), or at best keep it as stingy as they possibly can without being dragged to a guillotine. Don't forget what that middle initial stands for.
As Alana said, (paraphrasing), she's not afraid of AI, she's afraid of the world (i.e. system) AI is being brought into.
Ai in bringing people together reducing loneliness and competition?
That’s a good idea!
What if A.I. is actually the nervous system of Earth itself? What if is no really separation between artificial and natural? What if humanity and all their creation is no separate from Earth in any sense?
why do microplastics harm our biosphere even though it was once biology? what if pesticides and insects are one? AI is a computer that can organise complex data sets, it could exist in favour of the earth or it could not, depends on the data, if one day it becomes self-interested, there is no guarantee that it should stay interested in the earth, although an all knowing intellectual superpower may just as well be more interested in the earth than we as a human race have shown to be.