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A Call for Safe and Ethical AI (Artificial Intelligence) for Health

A Call for Safe and Ethical AI (Artificial Intelligence) for Health

The World Health Organisation (WHO) urges caution while employing extensive language model tools (LLMs) produced by artificial intelligence (AI) to protect and enhance human well-being, human safety, and human autonomy, as well as to preserve public health. Some of the most rapidly growing platforms that mimic comprehending, processing, and creating human communication are LLMs, including ChatGPT, Bard, Bert, and many[Read More…]

by — 26/05/2023 — Comments are Disabled — Life/Philosophy
 Sentience: Does AI Have Artificial Consciousness?

 Sentience: Does AI Have Artificial Consciousness?

There is a recent article, Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea, where the author stated that, “While some researchers suggest that conscious AI is close at hand, others, including me, believe it remains far away and might not be possible at all. But even if unlikely, it is unwise to dismiss the possibility altogether. The prospect of artificial consciousness[Read More…]

by — 19/05/2023 — Comments are Disabled — Life/Philosophy
Must Sentience Include Subjective Experience? Maybe Not

Must Sentience Include Subjective Experience? Maybe Not

Consciousness is often defined by what it is like to be or what it means to have an experience, like seeing a color or hearing a sound. There are also definitions of consciousness with feeling and thinking. However, could it be that part of the difficulty in understanding consciousness is due to labels of the brain, rather than a uniform[Read More…]

by — 15/05/2023 — Comments are Disabled — Life/Philosophy
Geoffrey Hinton, AI, and Google’s Ethics Problem

Geoffrey Hinton, AI, and Google’s Ethics Problem

Talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, actual or imagined, has become feverish, much of it induced by the growing world of generative chat bots.  When scrutinising the critics, attention should be paid to their motivations.  What do they stand to gain from adopting a particular stance?  In the case of Geoffrey Hinton, immodestly seen as the “Godfather of AI”,[Read More…]

by — 14/05/2023 — Comments are Disabled — World
What Happens When LTAI (Less Than Artificial Intelligence) Gives Way to AI?

What Happens When LTAI (Less Than Artificial Intelligence) Gives Way to AI?

After almost 79 years on this beleaguered planet, let me say one thing: this can’t end well. Really, it can’t. And no, I’m not talking about the most obvious issues ranging from the war in Ukraine to the climate disaster. What I have in mind is that latest, greatest human invention: artificial intelligence. It doesn’t seem that complicated to me.[Read More…]

by — 12/05/2023 — Comments are Disabled — World
Artificial Intelligence & The Polycrisis

Artificial Intelligence & The Polycrisis

Editor & Author’s Preface: This piece doesn’t explain itself much, nor argue effectively (with citations and footnotes), but speaks to those who have already come to understand the situation in — at least — the basic shape I have. To do otherwise would require months of work, if not years. So this is a distilled essay for those who are waking up from the[Read More…]

by — 07/05/2023 — Comments are Disabled — World
ChatGPT and human intelligence: Noam Chomsky responds to critics

ChatGPT and human intelligence: Noam Chomsky responds to critics

The recent emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT (part of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer family of language models) has attracted a lot of attention throughout the world. It is a chatbot released in November 2022, and, according to OpenAI’s website, its “dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.” The[Read More…]

by — 07/05/2023 — Comments are Disabled — World
‘AI-Shima’ Will Hack Your Password

‘AI-Shima’ Will Hack Your Password

Source: author + www.craiyon.com Perhaps the recent media hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and “not-really-so” OpenAI’s program called ChatGPT, made many people worried about AI. Some – even inside AI – are convinced that, we can’t afford an AI-shima – a Fukushima-like atomic accident inside our computers and the Internet. Like another nuclear accident that affects millions, we can’t afford[Read More…]

by — 07/05/2023 — Comments are Disabled — World
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AI’s Moral Mistress

The recent developments on artificial intelligence (AI) seem to move way too fast for way too many people. As a consequence, an AI moratorium – including a petition – has been suggested to slow down the penetrating speed of AI growth. Some ethics experts argue that the potential risks of AI suggesting everything goes too fast, support such a move.[Read More…]

by — 30/04/2023 — Comments are Disabled — Life/Philosophy
Libelled by the Bot: Reputation, Defamation and AI

Libelled by the Bot: Reputation, Defamation and AI

Cometh the new platform, cometh new actions in law, the fragile litigant ever ready to dash off a writ to those with (preferably) deep pockets.  And so, it transpires that artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, for all the genius behind their creation, are up for legal scrutiny and judicial redress.  Certainly, some private citizens are getting rather ticked off about what[Read More…]

by — 20/04/2023 — Comments are Disabled — World
Germany’s Ethics Council on Artificial Intelligence

Germany’s Ethics Council on Artificial Intelligence

Source: AI’s answer to AI on www.craiyon.com + human input, i.e. the author Germany has a problematic relationship with morality. On the one hand, it is home to moral philosophers such as Kant with his categorical imperatives, as well as Hegel’s slightly more upmarket concept of Sittlichkeit. Yet on the other hand, Germany is also the country that carried out[Read More…]

by — 10/04/2023 — Comments are Disabled — World
ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner

ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner

Inside the beating heart of many students and a large number of learners lies an inner cheat.  To get passing grades, every effort will be made to do the least to achieve the most. Efforts to subvert the central class examination are the stuff of legend: discreetly written notes on hands, palms and other body parts; secreted pieces of paper;[Read More…]

by — 14/02/2023 — Comments are Disabled — World
Revolution or Ruin? Evaluating the Consequences of Artificial Intelligence in Global Society

Revolution or Ruin? Evaluating the Consequences of Artificial Intelligence in Global Society

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is a burgeoning technology poised to revolutionize the world and bring significant change to global society. AI offers new capabilities and efficiency for humanity in the areas of finance, governance, healthcare, criminal justice, energy, and countless other fields and industries. However, similar to a double-edged sword, the technology also generates serious risks, particularly for the most[Read More…]

by — 10/09/2021 — Comments are Disabled — World
Artificial Intelligence Wants You (and Your Job) – We’d Better Control Machines Before They Control Us

Artificial Intelligence Wants You (and Your Job) – We’d Better Control Machines Before They Control Us

My wife and I were recently driving in Virginia, amazed yet again that the GPS technology on our phones could guide us through a thicket of highways, around road accidents, and toward our precise destination. The artificial intelligence (AI) behind the soothing voice telling us where to turn has replaced passenger-seat navigators, maps, even traffic updates on the radio. How[Read More…]

by — 22/07/2021 — Comments are Disabled — World
War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence

War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence

The ghost of Edward Teller must have been doing the rounds between members of the National Commission on Artificial Intelligence.  The father of the hydrogen bomb was never one too bothered by the ethical niggles that came with inventing murderous technology.  It was not, for instance, “the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it[Read More…]

by — 26/02/2021 — Comments are Disabled — World
How intelligent is artificial intelligence: Exploring the exclusion of minority

How intelligent is artificial intelligence: Exploring the exclusion of minority

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being touted as our future. AI technology has not only invaded our private lives in the form of smart technologies, virtual assistants, and robotic/ humanoid companions; but is also finding ever increasing representation in public sphere and government policies. From health technology to agriculture to the norms being developed on women safety (such as[Read More…]

by — 22/02/2021 — Comments are Disabled — World
Pandemic, AI, and end of Democracy

Pandemic, AI, and end of Democracy

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” ― George Orwell, 1984 The year 2020 is going to be recorded by future historians as a watershed moment in the history of mankind. The coronavirus pandemic is causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, causing unprecedented economic devastation on global proportions, forcing lockdowns across[Read More…]

by — 21/07/2020 — Comments are Disabled — World
Artificial Intelligence: Socioeconomic, Political And Ethical Dimensions

Artificial Intelligence: Socioeconomic, Political And Ethical Dimensions

Introduction: Humanity’s Future in AI-Biosynthetic World In a few centuries or perhaps a few decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and biosynthetic engineering will be perfected to the degree that androids will closely resemble humans and biosynthetically engineered humans will resemble androids. Despite the nightmares of such a prospect for some scientists, humanist scholars and theologians, AI will be a dream becoming[Read More…]

by — 22/04/2017 — 2 comments — Life/Philosophy
Still from Ex Machina. Courtesy of A24 Films.

For Automation to Benefit Society, It Must Serve Humans, Not Replace Them

A recent episode of CBC Radio’s Day 6 featured an interview with David Levy, artificial intelligence expert and author of Love and Sex with Robots. Levy discussed a line of robotic sex dolls to be released in 2017 that can speak and respond to touch. He reaffirmed his 2007 prediction, in his book Love and Sex with Robots, that humans[Read More…]

by — 26/02/2017 — 2 comments — Life/Philosophy