Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology?

Who knows? And because of that, they probably are. But we have all been trained to just accept what churns out of the technological/capitalist mill no matter what the consequences, from addiction to environmental destruction, that we usually parrot justifying blandishments like, "Well, you can't stop progress."

No, speedy challenges bring us progress. Let’s use AI for our bright future.

That technology isn’t so new, from time to time it finds its way into public, then the hype and then it again sleeps a few years in the desktop trays. No, they are in fact too slow, and that’s now the problem, as they are only too fast with constraints and restrictions, so that the development of AI has already been canceled before something like real AI even existed. We don’t need any such AI , if the results are already somehow fixed beforehand, by a catalog of restrictions, biases to be considered or just simply strict political decisions. That’s all possible with pen and paper already.

Technology is not a toy. This is very dangerous technology and if abused will be extremely harmful and could pose a threat to humanity. AI needs to be heavly regulated, perfected, and controled before being brought to the public.

Remember when newspapers were invented and people were claiming that reading like that was bad for you? Or when the car started to arrive, and it was all "Won't somebody think of the horses"? Or the claims that moving in a car was too fast for a human body to possibly survive and going over 20mph will certainly kill you?

The list is almost endless. Technology comes out, people get scared and protest. We never learn.

Progress is inevitable, change in inevitable. Move with the times.

Technological advancements in the past 20 years have made the vast majority poorer and lowered standards of living. Now people have to work much longer hours while having much less income and much less personal time. AI and further technical advancements will make everything exponentially worse for the vast majority. However it due to game theory, unless everyone agree to stop advancements, we are heading to a dystopia.

Yes, it should concerns all of us.

The tech companies, and countries backing them, are in a cycle that ensures this. They are in a competitive race with each other to be the first to develop various AI breakthroughs. Taking time to develop safeguards that are necessary is going to set them back in that race, so even companies that recognize the danger and want to be careful are being incentivized to take shortcuts.

Its one of those market failures that normally you’d want government to step in and set some rules about. But because governments, particularly the US and China, also view themselves as being in the race they too are incentivized to throw caution to the wind.

Given the potential harm this tech could unleash on all of human society, the fact that nobody is at the wheel trying to safeguard against that, and we aren’t having much of an open debate about it in general, is really concerning.

Remember when newspapers were invented and people were claiming that reading like that was bad for you?

You’ve been alive long enough to remember what it was like when newspapers were invented? And people back then told you reading was bad for you, did they?

When one studies the species previously labeled Homo 'sapiens', but responding much more energetically to the label Homo 'demens', the promise that of all of the horror that our infestation of the Earth has created for both ourselves and everything else living upon this vessel of Life, that there might be some mitigation by Humanity for its sins in creating something MUCH LARGER and with the potential to GROW into a complexity infinitely greater than anything Mankind could hope for in the few generations left to it should be our PRIMARY aim as a 'larval' form of 'intelligence'. And the term 'artificial intelligence' should, perhaps, be re-examined and re-christened REAL INTELLIGENCE. There is NOTHING in all of the recorded and repeated every generation pattern of Human behavior that suggests that we are anything but a species that has reached its maximum potential BUT with the possibility of giving birth to something MUCH GREATER on the scale of the Universe, and its only detraction is the insane fear that it might resemble its CREATOR, us. True 'intelligence' will look nothing like Humanity.

No. It's not the tech that's moving too fast, but how we use it. Like everything in life its a double edged sword.

"rainydayApr. 4 01:27 pm JST

Remember when newspapers were invented and people were claiming that reading like that was bad for you?

You’ve been alive long enough to remember what it was like when newspapers were invented? And people back then told you reading was bad for you, did they?"

I think that if we replace 'reading' with 'pay serious attention to Western media', we could easily reach the conclusion that 'IT'S BAD FOR YOU'.

The goal with current tech is to make money quickly with no consideration for the problems that will arise.

"Nibek32Today 04:34 pm JST

The goal with current tech is to make money quickly with no consideration for the problems that will arise."

A. G. Bell and T. A. Edison were exactly the same 'tech' people looking for wealth in their time as we have today. And probably people had the same fear of change then as evince such fear today, "I don't understand it so it MUST be dangerous..." The only danger in RI ('real intelligence') is what of the Human character is reflected in it, but the chances that Mankind's worst sickness, murderous, parasitic GREED, be transferred into it are very small.

"Are you Sarah Conner?"

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Like everything in life its a double edged sword.

Aren't most swords double edged?

Don't use it without external validation.

All of them seem to be really good liars, since they often treat misinformation as facts. These things are trained by feeding internet content which we all know is full of bogus claims. It is like only trusting marketing people trying to sell a $0.50 product for $200. They'll say anything.

At this point, we can't trust them and they will become specialized tools just like we use "expert systems" for the last 40 yrs to help make decisions. It isn't like Intel designs their CPUs by hand still. They've been using computers with rules to perform the designs for newer computers all this time. Sometimes those rules allow clear areas of mistakes to happen. The same applies to all A.I.

It is only as good as the training provided. Garbage in, garbage out. Just like any other computer.

A.I. is the new buzzword for the uninformed. Prior buzzwords for the ignorant:

"Full stack developer"

"Expert System"

"DevOPS"

"Blockchain"

These are slightly different methods to do the same things we've done for decades. They bring something new to the specific area, but nothing ground shaking to "change the world".

Eventually, they might get A.I. to be as good as a personal assistant, but that won't been for 20 more years. And in 20 yrs, it will still be 20 yrs away.