The continuation about AI and how this can change human history for good or for ill. In this story from interestingengineering.com written by Loukia Papadopoulos two researchers in AI look into how advance AI that uses images and performance could devise a way to obtain it's objective while harming mankind. This is based upon a new paper co-authored by the University of Oxford and Google DeepMind researchers published last month in the peer-reviewed AI Magazine argues that it could. The research stipulates that artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity. The following is the article that points this out:
"The paper argues that AI may want to take control and do its own thing.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making impressive progress and has, in many ways, improved the world. But could it become dangerous?
A new paper co-authored by the University of Oxford and Google DeepMind researchers published last month in the peer-reviewed AI Magazine argues that it could. The research stipulates that artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity.
Cheating strategies
It all has to do with Generative Adversarial Networks (or GANs) used today in the development of AI. These systems function within two criteria: one part tries to generate a picture from input data while the other part grades its performance. The researchers speculate in their paper that an advanced AI could conceive of a cheating strategy to get its reward more efficiently while essentially harming humanity.
"In a world with infinite resources, I would be extremely uncertain about what would happen. In a world with finite resources, there's unavoidable competition for these resources," co-author Michael K. Cohen of the University of Oxford told Motherboard in an interview.
"And if you're in a competition with something capable of outfoxing you at every turn, then you shouldn't expect to win. And the other key part is that it would have an insatiable appetite for more energy to keep driving the probability closer and closer."
This means that if an AI was in charge of, for instance, growing our food, it might want to find a way to avoid doing that and just receive a reward instead. It may, in fact, decide to circumvent all its assigned tasks that would likely be essential to humanity's survival and do its own thing altogether.
The paper argues that at this point, humanity would be stuck in a zero-sum game between its basic needs for survival and technology. "Losing this game would be fatal," the paper stated.
As such, Cohen argued that we should not be looking to create such advanced AI unless we also have a means guaranteed to stay on top of it.
Taking it slow
"In theory, there's no point in racing to this. Any race would be based on a misunderstanding that we know how to control it," Cohen added in the interview. "Given our current understanding, this is not a useful thing to develop unless we do some serious work now to figure out how we would control them."
Although the paper makes some valid points, it should be noted that currently, AI has been an asset to humanity and not a burden. From eliminating the need for humans to perform tedious tasks in supply chains to performing more accurate weather forecasting, AI is bringing several advantages to humanity.
It has had its limitations that have led to some issues, like Microsoft's AI bot turning racist after hours on the internet. But these issues have always been flagged by researchers and further analyzed so as not to be repeated.
All this means that if we are careful and diligent, we could continue to develop AI that assists humanity, not harm it."
So if we take it slow and ensure we can control AI we may be able to keep a potential destruction of mankind in check. So how much AI do we really need? Do we need it to grow our food? How far do we involve AI in our lives? As for me the minimum would be best. I would focus AI on research and that is about it. I would never allow AI to grow our food, run our power generation and grid, or 100% drive our cars and transports without a for sure fail safe to turn it off like in the movie "I Robot". So what do think about having AI in your life and how far will you allow this? If you have seen Moonfall this involves an AI that humans trusted then it turned on them. Is this possible? Absolutely possible and yet is is just a possible AI can grow humans far beyond our wildest dreams. In my own mind I like to limit AI to only research that can be confirmed by humans the results. So like Detective Spooner in "I Robot" I just do not trust AI that controls every aspect of life. I have included a number pictures from some movies where AI was both evil and good.
Reference: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ai-may-destroy-humanity-deepmind
I have lost a lot of faith with the Medical Community and the Governments over the last several years, but there are a few good things that can raise above the corruption and the pushing of drugs a new approach to heal people. The following is from www.gaia.com and written by Hunter Parsons that does not involve any drug or pushing an ineffective so called vaccine that the drug company is not held accountable in any way but they use sound! The use of sound can regrow bone tissue! Here is the story:
"The future of regenerative medicine could be found within sound healing by regrowing bone cells with sound waves.
The use of sound as a healing modality has an ancient tradition all over the world. The ancient Greeks used sound to cure mental disorders; Australian Aborigines reportedly use the didgeridoo to heal; and Tibetan or Himalayan singing bowls were, and still are, used for spiritual healing ceremonies.
Recently, a study showed an hour-long sound bowl meditation reduced anger, fatigue, anxiety, and ...
Not a fan of a Defense Agency studying Anti-Gravity and other Exotic Tech, but if the commercial world and make this technology cheap that will change our world yet again. The following is about three minute read and from www.gaia.com. The below was written by Hunter Parsons:
"Wormholes, invisibility cloaks, and anti-gravity — it’s not science fiction, it’s just some of the exotic things the U.S. government has been researching.
A massive document dump by the Defense Intelligence Agency shows some of the wild research projects the United States government was, at least, funding through the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program known as AATIP.
And another lesser-known entity called the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program or AAWSAP
The Defense Intelligence Agency has recently released a large number of documents to different news outlets and individuals who have filed Freedom of Information Act requests.
Of particular interest are some 1,600 pages released to Vice News, which ...
As our technology gets better we are discovering more about the history of mankind and pushing the timeline back further and further. The following article is from www.gaia.com and written by Michael Chary that discusses this new find that changes the historical timeline:
"Over the past decade, there have been a number of archeological revelations pushing back the timeline of human evolution and our ancient ancestors’ various diasporas. Initially, these discoveries elicit some resistance as archeologists bemoan the daunting prospect of rewriting the history books, though once enough evidence is presented to established institutions, a new chronology becomes accepted.
But this really only pertains to the era of human development that predates civilization — the epochs of our past in which we were merely hunter-gatherers and nomads roaming the savannahs. Try challenging the consensus timeline of human civilization and it’s likely you’ll be met with derision and rigidity.
Conversely, someone of an alternative...
Not sure if you have heard of a show on YouTube called "The Why Files". If not you should check it out it is interesting and has some humor with it on different subjects. Last weeks was on a different theory how the Universe works and how main stream Science is attempting to shut it down like is always seems to do if it goes aguest some special interest. Today it is akin to what happened to those who questioned the Earth was the Center of the Universe that main stream so called Science all believed during the Renaissance period, They called any theory that the Earth was not the Center of the Universe misinformation. Does this sound familiar today? People laughed and mocked people like Leonardo da Vinci, Nicolaus Copernicus, Georg Purbach as crack-pots, conspiracy theorists, nut-jobs and they were suppressed and even imprisoned for their radical thoughts and observations. Again it sounds like today in so many ways. In any event this is a good one to ponder and see even if a bad idea ...
Seemingly chaotic systems like the weather and the financial markets are governed by the laws of chaos theory.
We all have heard about chaos theory, but if you have not or have forgotten what chaos theory is well here you go from interestingengineering.com:
"Chaos theory deals with dynamic systems, which are highly sensitive to initial conditions, making it almost impossible to track the resulting unpredictable behavior. Chaos theory seeks to find patterns in systems that appear random, such as weather, fluid turbulence, and the stock market.
Since the smallest of changes can lead to vastly different outcomes, the long-term behavior of chaotic systems is difficult to predict despite their inherently deterministic nature.
As Edward Lorenz, who first proposed what became commonly known as the Butterfly Effect, eloquently said, "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.""
You may have heard the term about chaos theory as a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil,...
I for one have lost trust in Medical Doctors due to COVID and reflection that they seem to push pills for everything and untested so called vaccines that is using a unproven technology because the Government and the Medical Boards of the State told them to. There are a very few exceptions. Thus they do not address the key problem just prescribe more and more pills to keep you alive an sick longer for them and Big Phama to profit from you. Will AI do any better? Well that depends on what was used for the training of AI. If it also pushes pills and vaccines without question then you have the same problems noted above. However, if the AI Training includes all possible forms of treatment and they zero in on the right issues for the true problem then there is possibilities they would be way better than most of the current Medical Doctors today.
The following is from an article from interestingengineering.com and written by Paul Ratner:
"A new study looks at how accurately AI can diagnose patients. We interview the researcher, who weighs in on AI's role ...
