I've not thought much about artificial intelligence (AI) other than in 2023. On 2023-04-04, I wrote a blog post named AI vs human life where I contrasted the speed at which AI is developing with the need for guardrails against destruction of humanity. A little thing like that.

I'm not a luddite nor opposed to the AI concept. I am, on the other hand, very much opposed against capitalist companies that run for-profit amok. We can't toss safety concerns aside.

Notes

These are in chronological order. I started this list on 2023-05-02.

• Merchant, Brian. “AI Really Is Smoke and Mirrors.” Blood in the Machine, April 22, 2024. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-really-is-smoke-and-mirrors.

• ‘IBM to Freeze Hiring as CEO Expects AI to Replace 7,800 Jobs’. Accessed 3 May 2023. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/3/ibm-to-freeze-hiring-as-ceo-expects-ai-to-replace-7800-jobs.

  IBM will freeze hiring as it expects about 7,800 jobs to be replaced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the coming years, the tech giant’s CEO has said.

• Noam Chomsky and C. J. Polychroniou, ‘Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For’, Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For, 3 May 2023, https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/noam-chomsky-on-chatgpt.

• Metz, Cade. ‘“The Godfather of A.I.” Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead’. The New York Times, 1 May 2023, sec. Technology. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html.

  Until last year, he said, Google acted as a “proper steward” for the technology, careful not to release something that might cause harm. But now that Microsoft has augmented its Bing search engine with a chatbot — challenging Google’s core business — Google is racing to deploy the same kind of technology. The tech giants are locked in a competition that might be impossible to stop, Dr. Hinton said.

  His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore.”