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Artificial "intelligence" as a tool or threat?

This is just my perspective on how AI is developing right now and how it interacts with people..

December 24, 20242 min read
Artificial "intelligence" as a tool or threat?

Why, first, is "intelligence" in quotes?

Does the present degree of artificial "intelligence" match human intellect?

Formally, yes; but ultimately (crucially, essentially), not yet; not now.

Why not in the crucial sense?

Simply because it is not selfish.

That is not self-awareness or self-referential, therefore.

Furthermore, it is not intuitive.

For now, it cannot draw relevant conclusions outside of the formal model.

Laws, guidelines, or relations define a formal model.

One formal model, for instance, is chess.

Or any other game.

Every (social or governmental) legislation is a formal model.

Every project exists as a formal model.

Formal models abound in current science.

Artificial "intelligence" has already exceeded humans (including the best experts) in the (vast) majority of formal models even at this point of development.

Formal models suffer from incompleteness (Gödel's theorems).

Namely, no formal model can be comprehensive.

Returning now to the first point, is artificial "intelligence" a tool or a threat?

One can find the response to be vague.

In our society, anyone - including beggars - can get hold of a pen and paper; however, how many of them are able to produce something - verse, poetry, an essay, a short story, or a novel - that would catch someone's eye?

But suppose in the world - with currently 8 billion people - 0.01% of them are talented enough to produce great films?

That is 800,000, and who will see that many movies if artificial "intelligence" enables a movie to be produced in one day, even in a couple of hours?

What are we going to do with the abundance of materials that are quality and cheap?