AI: Reality v. Garbage

Posted by freedomforall 22 hours, 15 minutes ago to Technology
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" The more territory A-I seizes on the Web, and the more it trains itself on recursive feedbacks of its own garbage, the more distorted the output gets. As that occurs, A-I becomes increasingly abstracted from Reality, which is exactly what happens when a person goes insane. So, expect an exponential rise in incorrect content that would, in theory, become a pretty serious problem when you ask A-I to run things like systems we depend on, the electric grid, harvesting crops, warfare. . . .

Secondly, as that process runs, and probably before it gets very far, A-I looks like it will wreck the financial system, which, in turn, would crater the economy of everyday life — the ability of people to earn a living, buy stuff, support children, get food, and stay out of the rain."
SOURCE URL: https://www.kunstler.com/p/reality-v-garbage


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  • Posted by mccannon01 20 hours, 48 minutes ago
    Excellent article! I sincerely hope the readers of it fully understand the meaning of AI's feedback loop on its own garbage. Decades ago in my early programming days I was told computers are very fast idiots and the slightest mistake can have dire consequences very quickly. As a process programmer I can truly understand how a very fast idiot can get entangled in its own garbage. The initial garbage may be a minuscule piece of false information when fed back on the loop amplifies and multiplies until the whole thing is out of control - very fast! This form of AI doesn't even know it is in error. Boom. [Note: this was covered a long time ago in an original Star Trek episode called "The Changeling" and repeated in the movie "Star Trek: The Motion Picture".]
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