AI

Wibbles
Wibbles Community Member Posts: 3,726 Championing
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Is anyone else worried that AI may become self aware and too powerful ?

If this happened - The definition of "life" would change ….

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  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,890 Championing

    Who's to say it isn't already 'self aware', and what can any of us do about it? I think i'll stick to worrying about getting on and off the toilet. 🚽👨‍🦼🚽

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,442 Online Community Team

    There's a lot of conversations about this in the news at the moment. Feels like we're living in a SciFi film!

    I'm not completely AI skeptical, but I am definitely in the cautious camp and I don't like to use it that much. It is at the back of my mind how far it will go and what will happen to humanity if it keeps on growing as it is.

    Do you have any predictions for the way things might go @Wibbles?

  • Rag_793
    Rag_793 Community Member Posts: 678 Empowering
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    I personally am not a fan of AI, I rarely use Siri on my phone, as for any other form of AI I try to stay clear of it. I can see over the next 100 years that it will start getting to the point where it starts replacing people in the work places, then it will start to shape the way we have to live our lives. We have already got to a point where man kind cannot live day by day without the need for any form of support from a machine. Over the next 200 years Machines and AI will get to the point where our civilisation will be extinct. There are grey areas that we shouldn’t push the boundaries with and AI is one of them.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,313 Championing

    Is anyone else worried that AI may become self aware and too powerful ?

    Yes. If the experts are worried then I'm worried. They say the industry is unregulated and potentially unstoppable by the end of this decade.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Community Member Posts: 1,617 Championing

    There's always going to be things to worry about in life, but I don't think AI is something we should spend our time worrying about. I think it has the potential to do a lot of good, such as helping us find cures for diseases and making life easier in countless ways.

  • egiste2r
    egiste2r Posts: 193 Connected

    For a person with a poor education, the world is full of magic. The algorithms on the basis of which "AI" was developed are soon known as a hundred years. But only now there is cheap computing power for ordinary people to use.

  • CarNineSix
    CarNineSix Community Member Posts: 65 Contributor

    What you have to worry about is not what we need worry about.

    An AI may become dangerous simply by not knowing.

    Think about what makes you not do OR do something? You learned, you were taught or you know not to do it.

    The problem with AI is the we humans have created it.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Community Member Posts: 1,617 Championing
    edited September 16
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1149423#Comment_1149423

    You don't need to have a poor education and regard something as magic to be optimistic about what it might achieve. A technology can be well understood and still have enormous potential to improve people's lives.

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 5,741 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I think there is a lot of good that could come from AI but also potentially a lot of bad if we're not careful. What I do find quite concerning is how quick it seems to be advancing.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,313 Championing

    Unspun World with John Simpson on BBC2 at 11pm examines the potential dangers of AI. Newsnight covered it last week. Very sobering.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Community Member Posts: 1,617 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1149526#Comment_1149526

    I think it's important not to focus exclusively on the potential dangers. AI could bring enormous benefits too, particularly in medicine, science and helping people with everyday life. I'm quite hopeful about the future of it.

  • Hicks
    Hicks Community Member Posts: 21 Connected
    edited September 19
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1149528#Comment_1149528

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    AI can be terrifying and when the experts involved are advising caution and to back off i think we should all be worried.

  • MyHappy256
    MyHappy256 Community Member Posts: 155 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/148911/ai

    Nope, I support AI.

    I used AI to complete my change of circumstances form and tribunal request form, so much better than using CAB, wow the difference. I did have to correct a few things, but because it can draw on all the information of the internet and write it in that confusing DWP speech, that I can't speak, it looked really impressive. I want to say something rude to the DWP, but I won't because I am the bigger guy!

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Community Member Posts: 1,617 Championing
    edited September 19

    Anyway, as far as 'Ai can be terrifying and we should all be worried' I don't think the existence of risks means we should be pessimistic about AI overall. Even the international AI safety reports acknowledge that expert opinion on some of the more extreme future scenarios varies considerably. I think sensible caution and optimism about the potential benefits can coexist.

  • CarNineSix
    CarNineSix Community Member Posts: 65 Contributor

    @Ross1975 Chernobyl was safe once . . . . LOL

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Community Member Posts: 1,617 Championing
    edited September 18
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1149774#Comment_1149774

    Of course, there are negatives to pretty much everything in life including Ai.

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