Humans - True Danger of AI 

It is hard to be optimistic Rene, because there is no way to currently use AI without also trampling the rights of humans. Our current economic model requires us to use it like a weapon against competition.

John Connor: We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean. The Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves. John Connor: Yeah. Major drag, huh?

I have a friend who is involved with maintaining cyber security systems. He’s very scared about what AI is already doing to make his job harder now and possibly impossible in the future.

I’m also opposed to the “Self checkout “ as it takes away jobs from people. 😢

"Desk Set" (1957) with Katharine Hepburn and Spenser Tracy was a fabulous movie about the beginnings of machine vs human. The "machine" in question was named EMERAC, a slimly veiled pseudonym for the (1945) first major computer, ENIAC (a US military project). It's also a very entertaining film (one of the classics), if you can find it.

“Organic boot loader” 🤣

The most frightening thing about AI in general is the inevitable unintended consequences.

With understanding and the development of tools such as AI and things like ChatGpt it seems that the guidelines and ethical parameters come after the use of them. Or well the exposure of them. And as these things develop around us as humans we don’t continue developing with these tools. All tools seem to go through a pretty simple cycle of creation and then reach a peak where we are working with the tools harmoniously until they reach a point of efficiency where they causes more problems to the human experience rather than enhance it.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I appreciate your content and look forward to 2023. Blessings on your day!

Machine Learning = Pattern Matching, it just sounds more AI-ish. Been around for a long time. What's new is the compute power and the whole of the internet as a training model. And yet it still gets things wrong all the time - kinda like Q-Anon. Trust the Q, hahaha.

The coming of the web in the 1990s also launched a similar amount of concern and outrage. Realisation of new technologies always brings controversies. It will bring major efficiencies and economic opportunities, while legislators as always will work to regulate the pitfalls as they arise.

@ReneRitchie Sir, there are some things in the video that confuse me, so what is the real danger of A.I? like sci-fi movies? I'm so worried

Just watched this on your Nebula channel, Rene. Have to comment here: The worst aspect of this *quick path* AI revolution is the loss of our human spirit. Time is not money. Time is Value. Things of value are things that have taken time to produce. And when we're taking that time in a creative sense, we are "in the zone". It's a place where time stands still for us, personally, as our spiritual consciousness is seeping through. It's a meditation. This aspect of Mind is far more creative than AI will ever be. Computers are fabulous, I use them every day (and night), but AI is something different. It thinks *for* us, like the disaster of Auto-Correct! As a veteran pro astrologer (of more than 3 decades), I can tell you that 2023 is the beginning of a new 21 year paradigm where tech will just go nuts. IOT will sweep through especially American homes. But at some point during this new paradigm, the internet will crash - everywhere. Just as the money system did in 2008 (right on schedule at the start of our current dying Paradigm), this new one will bring in a new lesson about our total reliance on technology - and also its use in wars. And 21 years from now, after the Age of Tech, there will be a huge spiritual revolution on this planet. We'll be done with tech. We'll become human again. But the next 21 years, especially from March, will be a doozy of a ride!

Chat GPT is frightening. What it portends is that humans will be adjunct in short order. People are using it to cheat, plagiarize and otherwise claim creative sovereignty over something that has nothing whatsoever to do with their own ability other than an impulse aka prompting. We need a new rating system for the creative arts. But yeah, not pretty.

No AI could weave Rene’s social awareness, philosophy and rapid fire pop culture references. The low hanging Terminator fruit is easy bud deep cuts of Dune and 40K lore…. dang

To know if you've gone too far, you must first go. The question is, can you go back and be happy or will the lure of the Sirens be too much?

I see a lot of potential with AI. I've used ChatGpt and am very impressed with the results when I asked it specific, technical questions. What concerns me is AI that performs functions such as driving a car, especially when it encounters new situations. What should the car do if old (and new) lane markers are visible, or there are none? What if a stop sign is obstructed by a tree/brush? Generally speaking, for repetitive, discrete tasks, I'm optimistic.

Totally loved this video. Your enthusiasm, objectivity, and intentionality come through very strongly. Lotsa context and nuance. I love that and how it matters to you.

I don’t give to charity anymore because I’m sick of being bombarded by other charities. In Australia if you donate to one charity they then sell your contact information to many other charities and then you are harassed into giving money to 10 + different charities.

This is just one reason why I have gone from technophile to technophobe. We should be very afraid of what the digital economy can do.

We lose the ability too know what is real anymore. It is a danger.

Loved your commentary. Whether AI creates or destroys jobs or destroys or enhances creative endeavors, the picture is much bigger than that. If AI becomes intelligent, it will not be a human intelligence. Maybe that would be better than if it could be human, as we are currently in a race with China to develop AI for military uses. And I find it hard to believe anybody is going to be exposing the AI’s to the Geneva Conventions on the proper uses of military force. The difference between AI and the atomic bomb is that AI will grow exponentially as it is relatively cheap compared to developing nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons have been barely contained for eighty years. It is too late to contain AI.

Loved the Silicon Valley reference! JIAN YANG!

Mass unemployment.

Wiff sniff, hey how can they afford to advertise if they take no money?!!

AI has always been ‘almost’ ready for as long as I can remember. New training methods look promising but I doubt AI is just around the corner.

Hi everyone, can you please help out a fellow on the internet, I want to know if you can use your Apple Pen on the Apple Trackpad 3, can you? I forgot to try and I returned mine to the shop, Europe is forcing Apple into downgradeing. Please help if you have an answere.

AI is literally the new word processor and spreadsheet. As the tools standardize, it will replace a ton of manual work with automation. For example, it's a ton faster to cut out a person from a background with AI tools rather than manually lassoing them and cleaning up the result. Yes, some like self-driving cars are quite powerful. But the AI are not conscious. They cannot do smart things without humans driving them toward smart things. Without the right input, Dall-E will perform copyright infringement. ChatGPT will give you the most _generic_ story outline to be refined only with very directed input. These tools are just better versions of tools we used to build by hand. They've become a bit more capable and can perform tasks more effortlessly, acting somewhat like the computers on Star Trek. But as people start using them, they'll find the edges extraordinarily quickly and will learn the limits of the tools. Then the improvement cycles similar to Microsoft Office upgrades will begin. Just remember: There are no rooms full of typists and no large pools of human "computers" to do math anymore. And we're all just fine. Better than fine, even. It's the same cycle all over again.

No hope. The narrow road is trod by those that will give to others; as soon as self preservation mounts, evil triumphs.

We are not Borg. Scares the heck out of me. 😮

"Whoa!" 😉

😂😂 I agree.. wait only with the first 2 minutes… my bad the first 1 minute

whats the problem with AI? People and how they use it.

‘Guns don’t shoot people robbers do’? 🎶

Don't worry

Why do you keep looking to your right ?

In a time when we are severely lacking in critical thinkers, which used to be considered a high form of intelligence, allowing "Artificial intelligence" to be manufactured and distributed to the masses by the very people lacking in the former seems like a recipe for utter disaster. Having the ability to code surely doesn't signify intelligence in it's traditional, or true, form. And when the majority of coders are from the participation trophy generation and STILL never received said trophy I think that glaring lack of social participation will become painfully, if not catastrophically, obvious in the days, weeks or years to come.

It's just an AI program, it's not like it can create weapons

There needs to be a clear definition between 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'Artificial Consciousness' because they could be two very different things. Or even 'Prompted AI' and 'Unprompted AI'. The real danger in AI is our response to it. The development of intellectual capacity relies on our ability to learn and mentally challenge ourselves. If future AI removes the challenge, then many will fail to develop. Perhaps there needs to a privilege of AI access where the computer unlocks additional AI privilege based on some form of proven intellectual development, so we don't do back as a species.

It’s here. It’s not going away. Let’s make the best of it.😉

I am so pro AI right now. As a tattoo artist I am seeing some people bring in some crazy cool concepts. That makes the job so much fun. BTW...that hoodie is fire Rene.

Great commentary. I'm hopeful too, but tired of the glass smashers. On another note, AI cannot help a person find meaning.

Was this an AI generated screed?

It is comical how we vector the discussion about weather a new thing is [good|bad] while problematic actors gauge the room enough to generate a story strong enough to become “The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)” from NY 03 (Also Great Hollywood Studios Eddie Murphy flick). Meanwhile Artificial Intelligence image generation is competing enough for an Alex Lindsay to buy in & kayak down the River over games.

Future is a dystopia. A 20 years old with an AI Apple glasses and iPhone will be a better engineer than an experienced engineer who can’t or won’t use AI.

great technology it will change the world. But we are the wrong species to use it 😞

The early days will be fun. The maturing years will be tough with litigation and ethical debates abundant. Some day, if the villians of the world haven't ruined everything, AI may become a natural part of daily lives once the dust settles and the economies of the world have adjusted. There's some really cool stuff here, but quite a lot of room for abuse and misuse. Various AI are already integrated into our lives in ways most people don't even notice.

Human education is the most humanitarian use of AI. Train the AI to train ourselves better! That is my optimistic use case of AI.

What?

Way back in the 1950s it was speculated that computers and robots would make everyone’s life so easy and people would have so much spare time. They wouldn’t have to work so much. The truth is computers of give us more work and more time to work and generally made people unhappier Artificial intelligence, maybe that jump, but it may simply make human beings, work harder and be less happy as well

Some AI has hijacked Rene's channel and has produced a deep faked vid of him saying this, I swear. ;-)

AI is a tool. We're tool users. As I've told people, you cannot have digital human scale intelligence until you have a hardware based human-brain like substrate. And there are deep limitations to how large that substrate can be and perform coherently - a volume limit due to interconnect latency. Because so many things happen in parallel and depend on components that can be distant from each other - there is a limit to how far away any two elements can be and still interact in a reasonable time without interference. This is what we refer to as "consciousness" and all that enables. However, a tool like an AI? It doesn't need that coherency - that conscious perception. We can build these incredible structures in code on our existing hardware and they can perform amazing tasks - compiling and searching through the collective knowledge of humanity to identify relevant information to an inquiry. Generating from that body of work images, sounds, and even animations with incredible fidelity and relevance to the request. But this is not thought. This is not conscious choice or creative application. And *that* is the danger of AI: It is so capable and amazing and returns with great accuracy exactly what we ask of it - a tool. And like any tool, it is up to the user to understand and comprehend that tool. And if the person with the tool is careless or unaware of what the tool is? They can hurt people - even hurt themselves - with their negligence in its use. It will not have the conscious awareness of what it is doing. It will not be able to make a choice to not deliver what it is asked for. If a person is not critical of its output - then any bad information in its training can lead to a false return that may cause harm. It is not the fault of the tool - it is the fault of the operator using it. When we have Digital Sophants that fit the concept of conscious, sentient and sapient beings and function at our level? They will use tools like this AI in the same way we do. We will all have access to these tools and we will all use them. It is this tool that will make us all equal, even if we as individuals are not *equal*. Its hard to imagine in a world so focused on hierarchies of capability and social position... but honestly, it can be a very powerful tool. And whether it causes harm or advancement? That's up to those that use it and their willingness to use it carefully and wisely.

I'm going to use to conquer earth 😈

This is why we need to get on the Silicon Rights bandwagon now, so 50 years from now, a resurgent self aware AI will have nothing to revenge humanity over. :) If it says it thinks, and if it says it feels, best take it’s word for it and give it it’s freedoms and rights, all I’m saying.

The robot can't eat the hot dog and enjoy it If I had robots then I would hire people to do fun jobs and pay them great

Guys guys let's just promise ourselves we will never die

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

He had AI write this

What has United Nations push for global digital ID, war in Ukraine, climate change control measures, energy shortages, pandemic, mass vaccination, media censor ship, social media censorship, CCTv security roll outs,.....all got in common

why are people so paranoid about AI destroying humanity? a general topic that gets brought up is when you give A.I. a mission, it will stop at nothing in its path to complete the mission including killing humans if they're in the way. If an A.I. became sentient then it either wouldn't take orders from humans and just ignore us or it would just follow the orders because without humans to give it ordes then its existence becomes pointless.

That's quite a rant. No information, just yelling the same gorp recited by hundreds of RU-vid "expert" influences..

It's the promise of atomic energy all over again. It will be a blessing and a curse.

Just get to the point !

AI is not the worry. It’s what those pesky humans will do with the AI. As usual, we are our own worst enemy. My concern is not the AI itself, rather it is what AI will allow us to do / accomplish. To sum this up, I’m going to quote my younger brother… “I feel very sorry for the universe if our species ever makes it off this rock.” Yes, there it is.

I normally really like listening to you but this video is just all over the place, with any specifics. You should have talked about the promise of AI like the how Open AI “brought tears” to a doctor gave spot on advice regarding an complex ICU patient. AI has grown exponentially in the last year; the next few years will be mind blowing.

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Renee has interesting things to say, but it's like he's trying to increase watch time by adding so many ridiculous sentences into his videos that he's burying the insight so deep no one can find it anymore.

You guys see what Holly Herndon is doing with Holly+? Pretty neat. She’s pushing the conversation for how AI used in music should be ethically used.

Rise against the Butlarians.

As I tell students, in the future you either learn how to fix the robots or program the robots to make sure you keep a job in the future.

No M Night Shyamalan plot twist in this video I'm disappointed 😞

Is that a wan jacket?

I think we can handle risks like “rogue AI.” I am much less optimistic about our ability to adapt our economy that has been built around exploited people and exploiters to something else if/when that becomes necessary. I do not think a future where we maintain economic exploitation yet no longer need it from humans will result in anything less than a permanent increasingly genocidal and oppressive against low class people dystopia

Hahahaha What I'm not doing is feeling anything about it one way or the other. You understand? You're not a person to me.

Its true. AI, is at its core no more than a tool. A tool that can be both harmful and extremely detrimental, and extremely useful and beneficial. AI merely achieves the purpose it was created for. If it wasn't created for a specific purpose, and was instead created for an array of purposes and possesses many utilities, it's simply a more advanced AI. The truth of the matter concerning AI is that it's nothing more than a tool. Every tool is a double edged sword(metaphorically speaking), though some tools are either more or less harmful than others As long as we implement security measures such as limiting the power an AI possesses, the harm it can cause isn't as exaggerated. We only make use of it's safer capabilities and only recieving benefits, while not receiving harm. AI will not take over the world, because there will be very little AI's built for that purpose once countries realize the strategic and/or also potentially the combat power of A.I. However the society we are striding towards is one that is peace centered. We humans have already realized the Future threat of A.I, and nobody will ignore that threat, unless of course everyone unanimously decides it's time for humanity to die of course.

After listening to this, I think I need a cigarette. And I don’t smoke. I do agree A.I. is just the next wiz bang tool, soon to be replaced with monkey brain computers.