The first thing that came to my mind when hearing about Moltbook was a dystopian image of hundreds of millions of AI bots spiraling out of control arguing with each other online at gigahertz speed and bankrupting the world of all its power resources.
AI is not alive, nor will it be. It is a cool creation made by other created beings.
Scripture reveals only God creates LIFE ex nihilo. Satan maybe utilizing this creation of man, maybe even helped direct its invention. If so, woe to man. Or rather woe to those who think it’s the cat’s meow, worshipping it, and ascribing values to it that it doesn’t possess. C.S Lewis was prescient when he wrote, The Hideous Strength.
I liked what this reviewer on Amazon had to say of the book: The AI Con
“My only quibble would be they could have done more to show how AI follows on the philosophy and practice of “scientific management” which was also the basis of “lean production.”
They examine the application of AI in various fields — to replace actors and writers in film making (and reduce their residuals from re-use), to convert newsroom staff into baby sitters of AI rather than actual journalism, and other areas, such as controlling labor and eliminating workers in Amazon warehouses and delivery system, leading to competitive stress injuries, as with other forms of automation. Essentially AI is a management tool to make more profit for the capitalist overlords.
They also point to an MIT study that productivity gains from AI thus far have been minimal. And if AI were to have to actually obey the copyright laws, it would probably be destroyed as a worthwhile investment. The New York Times lawsuit shows that prompts to ChatGPT can get it to churn out text that is verbatim from a New York Times article — in violation of copyright law. Hence Noam Chomsky’s quip that AI is “plaigarism software.”“
The first thing that came to my mind when hearing about Moltbook was a dystopian image of hundreds of millions of AI bots spiraling out of control arguing with each other online at gigahertz speed and bankrupting the world of all its power resources.
Sort of like the AI paperclip problem.
Sounds a little like X. 😏
AI is not alive, nor will it be. It is a cool creation made by other created beings.
Scripture reveals only God creates LIFE ex nihilo. Satan maybe utilizing this creation of man, maybe even helped direct its invention. If so, woe to man. Or rather woe to those who think it’s the cat’s meow, worshipping it, and ascribing values to it that it doesn’t possess. C.S Lewis was prescient when he wrote, The Hideous Strength.
Roberts’ Wrights interview with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna addressed this topic . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwfSCCo6jXs
I did not think he was a good interviewer. However, I thought his guests were interesting.
59 Alex and Emily’s book, The AI Con
5:05 Beyond the AI booster-doomer spectrum
10:27 What—and who—is AI actually useful for?
19:54 The AI productivity question(s)
30:48 Emily: AI won’t take your job, it’ll just make it shi**ier
39:50 Stochastic parrots, Chinese rooms, and semantics
46:04 Are LLMs really black boxes?
56:33 Do AIs “understand” things?
59:49 Debating using AIs as experts
1:08:15 How “neural” are neural nets, really?
I liked what this reviewer on Amazon had to say of the book: The AI Con
“My only quibble would be they could have done more to show how AI follows on the philosophy and practice of “scientific management” which was also the basis of “lean production.”
They examine the application of AI in various fields — to replace actors and writers in film making (and reduce their residuals from re-use), to convert newsroom staff into baby sitters of AI rather than actual journalism, and other areas, such as controlling labor and eliminating workers in Amazon warehouses and delivery system, leading to competitive stress injuries, as with other forms of automation. Essentially AI is a management tool to make more profit for the capitalist overlords.
They also point to an MIT study that productivity gains from AI thus far have been minimal. And if AI were to have to actually obey the copyright laws, it would probably be destroyed as a worthwhile investment. The New York Times lawsuit shows that prompts to ChatGPT can get it to churn out text that is verbatim from a New York Times article — in violation of copyright law. Hence Noam Chomsky’s quip that AI is “plaigarism software.”“