Chomsky rages against the AI machine: The death of the artist and rise of the God machines
Since ChatGPT’s November debut, it and other A.I.-powered chatbots from Google and Microsoft have terrorized users, engaged in disturbing conversations, and provided inaccurate information. But A.I.’s biggest limitation might be what neurologists have long warned about: It may never be able to completely replicate how the human brain works.
I don’t think we are appreciating the tsunami caused by the AI Chatbots earthquake this year.
It’s beyond students cheating.
The AI Chatbots will be able to discover the smartest and fastest ways to doing things from the nano level to new computer code to new disease fighting to new types of material to new ways of doing everything.
That’s the immediate technological impact.
The cultural impact will be far more enormous.
A journalist might be able to interview a dozen people for a story, AI Chatbots can talk to hundreds of thousands all at the same time.
We are moving from artisan to mass production again.
Once human artisans in every field would build things, mass production destroyed those skills sets and made the product with none of the human process.
The difference here its that AI is creating art better than most artists.
The rise of AI art will kill the human artist and extinguished the human experience of being human for a replicated AI version.
When the camera was invented, artists who produced real life art were no longer required, and the human experience in vision and emotion sparked new ways of doing art, but AI strips that all away and removes the human experience from art altogether.
We have always viewed AI as the rise of intelligence within the artificial, but what if it has a more symbiotic relationship with its host?
What happens to human beings when our art and dreams are created by AI?
Who starts to influence who?
Who is dreaming and who is the dreamer?
Technology will continue to provide a lifestyle for the Billionaire elite that makes them DemiGods as Capitalism mutates into mere parasitic survival plutocracy on a burning planet.
Robots with guns are the least of our worries.
The only hope to counter global warming are AI machines that can do miraculous things at atomic levels, the next generation of quantum computing and AI could become gods in essential machines…
DeepMind scientists say they trained an A.I. to control a nuclear fusion reactor
- The London-based AI lab, which is owned by Alphabet, announced Wednesday that it has trained an AI system to control and sculpt a superheated plasma inside a nuclear fusion reactor.
- Nuclear fusion, a process that powers the stars of the universe, involves smashing and fusing hydrogen, which is a common element of seawater.
- DeepMind claimed that the breakthrough, published in the journal Nature, could open new avenues that advance nuclear fusion research.
…the rise of AI though would lead quickly to Super Intelligence...
Our own experience makes us stubborn old men about the future. We base our ideas about the world on our personal experience, and that experience has ingrained the rate of growth of the recent past in our heads as “the way things happen.” We’re also limited by our imagination, which takes our experience and uses it to conjure future predictions—but often, what we know simply doesn’t give us the tools to think accurately about the future.
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So while nahhhhh might feel right as you read this post, it’s probably actually wrong. The fact is, if we’re being truly logical and expecting historical patterns to continue, we should conclude that much, much, much more should change in the coming decades than we intuitively expect. Logic also suggests that if the most advanced species on a planet keeps making larger and larger leaps forward at an ever-faster rate, at some point, they’ll make a leap so great that it completely alters life as they know it and the perception they have of what it means to be a human—kind of like how evolution kept making great leaps toward intelligence until finally it made such a large leap to the human being that it completely altered what it meant for any creature to live on planet Earth. And if you spend some time reading about what’s going on today in science and technology, you start to see a lot of signs quietly hinting that life as we currently know it cannot withstand the leap that’s coming next.
…the ability to build machines that can perform miracles driven by super intelligence is a reality that can either be benign or apocalypse inducing.
AI Chatbots are the beginning.
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Problem with AI is that it can only draw information and results from publicly available sources.
In the engineering field (especially militairy) more and more companies are not publishing their information and research on line for public dissemination. More and more companies have closed systems where access is denied to the internet. Sure hackers can get in but AI not so readily to be meaningful in publishing relevant, accurate and meaningful information.
One example. There are 10 Formula One teams. Each with a wind tunnel to tests aerodynamic performance. None of that information is published. Asking AI to create an aerodynamic F1 car is impossible IF AI relies on published information. One could use modelling software to make predictions but that is already available and not AI, and has huge limitations. Again this information would need to be published for AI to collate similar predictions and make a final analysis. Different file formats would make AI collation difficult.
Interesting to see where AI will go for it could end up like the Concord design. Feed enough parameter information into a computer and out pops the concord. When the Russians added the same parameters into their computer, out pops the concordski clone. Same information in, same information out.
Biggest problem for AI will be published false or misinformation. How will it distinguish between the two?
On the deep fake thing, I’m not so much concerned about celebrity fakes or criminal law fakes (which will probably be detected) as, well let’s say someone gets pissed at a high school teacher, so they do some SD art of her dancing naked in a bar. Sure, it probably won’t fool experts, but will it fool enough parents to get her fired?
And the thing is you can do this on mid-range rigs right now. Five years from now, I doubt thee will be a single computer for sale at best buy that can’t handle stable diffusion better than all but the top rigs.
Great technology (as always), but is this progress? Obviously technology that is getting very complex and clever but is that human progress?
The issue around computing is available surplus energy. Have a read of the last section of this article about digital currencies.
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/02/08/cbdc-bait-and-switch/
PS love the idea of AI running fusion reactors, hope it works because there are no alternative long term energy sources to power the AI into the future.
Oh wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! Oh brave new world,
That has such people in’t.
(Thanks, Will)
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
What’s your position Nitrium? Oh dear they are making me write in italics.
I’m more or less neutral at this stage. Combining the AI of ChapGPT (text), Stable Diffusion (art), and MusicLM (music), there really is no use for humans when it comes to art now.
Here is examples of 100% generated AI art: https://arthub.ai/
Here is some 100% generated AI music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbfsaP5WN6c
ChatGPT generated this when asked to write a song about a stoned astronaut in the style of David Bowie:
Verse 1:
Floating in space, high as the stars above
Gazing at the earth, feeling nothing but love
My suit is heavy, but my mind is light
I’m a stoned astronaut, taking flight
Chorus:
I’m on a trip, a cosmic ride
My mind is free, my spirit is high
I’m a stoned astronaut, I’m reaching for the sky
I’ll never come down, I’ll never say die
Verse 2:
The galaxies swirl, colors blend and blend
I’m in a dream, my reality bends
I’m feeling so alive, so much at ease
I’m a stoned astronaut, floating in the breeze
Chorus:
I’m on a trip, a cosmic ride
My mind is free, my spirit is high
I’m a stoned astronaut, I’m reaching for the sky
I’ll never come down, I’ll never say die
Bridge:
I’m on a journey, a journey to the unknown
I’ll fly forever, I’ll never be alone
I’ll see the wonders, that no one’s seen before
I’m a stoned astronaut, forever more
Chorus:
I’m on a trip, a cosmic ride
My mind is free, my spirit is high
I’m a stoned astronaut, I’m reaching for the sky
I’ll never come down, I’ll never say die
Outro:
I’m a stoned astronaut, floating in the sky
I’ll never come down, I’ll never say die
I’ll keep on flying, until the end of time
I’m a stoned astronaut, forever sublime.
Everything claimed to be made by humans from 2023 onward will need to be taken with a pinch of salt. There is no really way of separating the AI stuff from actual human creativity imo, especially since we will of course tweak the results when needed (especially to circumvent potential AI detectors).
Humans still have advantages over god like AIs. Humans are still explorers and we procreate different. Can just copy and past a new AI into existence. Where as procreation could be a disaster but we do it anyway.
Thing is art and music are things that humans do from their own creative brains. AI would be fine at producing stuff too but, by definition, it can’t be human creative output. So we will have to find a way to know the provenance of so-called art and music when we take an interest. Get to love your artists, know them, support them. Love being a human, it’s magical. Machines don’t cry okay.
The problem is there is no way to differentiate AI from human. An art painter, for example, can just copy an AI generated piece and claim it as “original”. I think any investment in AI art post 2023, regardless of how well you think you know the artist, will be futile.
https://hanginginvestments.com/best-ai-art/
There is no way to tell – be it modern or classic.
“by definition, it can’t be human creative output.”
So its a plagiarist and it writes false reviews to list in the citations for its articles.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chatgpt-art-theory-hal-foster-2263711
AI chatbots must somehow be related to my ex- mother-in-law. She knews everything as well…
Confused about Chomsky being in this title so I did a quick (non-AI-assisited) search. Top of the list is the article; “Noam Chomsky: AI Isn’t Coming For Us All, You Idiots” 🙂
I quote:
The world’s preeminent linguist has spoken — and he seems mighty tired of everyone’s whining about artificial intelligence as it stands today.
In an op-ed for the New York Times, Noam Chomsky said that although the current spate of AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing AI “have been hailed as the first glimmers on the horizon of artificial general intelligence” — the point at which AIs are able to think and act in ways superior to humans — we absolutely are not anywhere near that level yet.
I want to be the first to transcend.
I think that Chomsky may be underestimating the speed at which much of this change can occur. And we dont need A1 to be equal to or superior to humans for them to have a massive effect.
I know of someone in the science field who is at the edges of fringe so the kind of science that is in the process of being proven. There are only about a dozen + scientists worldwide working in the field. (Probably a fair number of researchers and grad students as well)
He gave one of the A1s a pivotal question for this area of science as he didnt think it would be able to keep up. His first pass found it had identified 75% of the context which surprised him so he asked it 2 more questions which were narrower and it ended up identifying and relating basically 100% of the science in this small area.
So the A1 reads info and then with a little prompting looks deeper and then finds more relevant stuff becoming more and more granular. So its a powerful tool for science and if it can see the granularity in complex areas that are not well understood then it cannot be much further away that it will be able to extrapolate where the science is heading from there or perhaps provide small pieces of the puzzle to allow humans to make the leap.
The speed with which it will learn and thus change human endeavours will be exponential and it doesnt need to be all knowing etc to take us well down the path.
I like Chompsky he has a lot of wisdom in what he says. He is very intelligent as well.
Scientists invent a better type of can opener.
It is just another tool, get over it people.
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