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diff --git a/content/2023/my-gripes-with-ai.md b/content/2023/my-gripes-with-ai.md index f3fe81c..63b1a40 100644 --- a/content/2023/my-gripes-with-ai.md +++ b/content/2023/my-gripes-with-ai.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- title: "My Gripes With AI" -category: "software" +category: engineering abstract: I see huge potential but most likely it will create hell on Earth date: 2023-03-22T20:41:58+01:00 year: 2023 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ AI may or may not be the future. It’s undoubtedly all the buzz recently. I don 3. *it’s an attack on an open internet* - why do people put stuff on the internet? For the money, recently. But if you look at the longer timeframe, the primary reason was for others to check it. I applaud people who have web pages without any analytics. I use one to see if anyone reads something I write. When someone enters, it validates me and makes me happy. This is the idea of the open internet - anyone can create something for others. But what will happen when the visitors disappear? We already have a few closed silos (Facebook, Twitter, and so on), so fewer people surf the wider web. And when all the answers will show up in a single place? Who will continue to create when all that there exist is void? 4. *who takes responsibility?* - a machine model is not a person (we’re not in [GitS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell) yet), but that won’t stop it from hurting humans. What if it provides wrong information? What if (when?) people start losing jobs due to it? If the pace of innovation continues, the social changes ML will bring will be incomparable to anything we’ve seen. (more in #7) 5. *what are the limits?* - there were attempts to use ML to detect illnesses like cancer. We don’t do this on a broader scale as it provided too many false positives, and the cons were unacceptable. Will we do a similar thing again? Will anyone say, “stop, this is going too far”? Who would even be able to do that? Scientists are out of the equation now (again, #7), and governments still don’t know what is [going on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMwKPmsbWE). [Sam Altman](https://fortune.com/2023/03/18/openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-that-other-ai-developers-working-on-chatgpt-like-tools-wont-put-on-safety-limits-and-clock-is-ticking/) maybe? -6. *it’s a closed revolution* - we are talking about ML because of OpenAI. It was a non-profit, but now it’s just another multi-billion company. We are not looking at the work of scientists and enthusiasts trying to see where they can take us. Somehow, Bell Labs gave us transistors, Unix, C, and a million other improvements. Will it be the same as before? Bell had guard rails from anti-monopoly regulations, yet it was still hell of a show. I see no such thing for current champions of ML. Do I trust them to be people of conviction and value? No, I do not. +6. ~~*it’s a closed revolution* - we are talking about ML because of OpenAI. It was a non-profit, but now it’s just another multi-billion company. We are not looking at the work of scientists and enthusiasts trying to see where they can take us. Somehow, Bell Labs gave us transistors, Unix, C, and a million other improvements. Will it be the same as before? Bell had guard rails from anti-monopoly regulations, yet it was still hell of a show. I see no such thing for current champions of ML. Do I trust them to be people of conviction and value? No, I do not.~~ [^closed] 7. *it will benefit English-speaking countries* - since we already speak primarily in English on the web, the models trained for English-speaking crowds will be best. Most of the world does not treat the English language as the primary one. I see a huge potential, and we will see the revolution soon. But I’m too old to be an optimist. Silicon Valley is a hellhole full of cynics. @@ -30,3 +30,5 @@ The way I see it, we created open internet for the betterment of humankind. Unfo I’d love to be wrong, but I don’t expect a good revolution. We will be lucky if this won’t destroy the entire society. {{<img-center "gits.webp" " This is not future we were promised, but about which we were warned about" "https://mubi.com/de/films/ghost-in-the-shell">}} + +[^closed]: [this is no longer the case](https://lwn.net/Articles/930939/) |