Thinking machines
You can run but you can't hide
Hi there,
Not being on social media is the gift that keeps on giving. I will explain one day.
Five things to share:
Artificial intelligence will ultimately be either the best thing that ever happened to humanity or the worst thing to ever happen. We can use A.I to solve all of today’s and tomorrow’s greatest problems, cure disease, deal with climate change, lift everybody out of poverty, but we could use exactly the same technology to create a brutal global dictatorship with unprecedented surveillance, inequality, and suffering. Is it so bad machines learned to know us better than we know ourselves? In iHuman.
(I watched it on Kanopy via my public library! #supportyourpubliclibrary)
A quote I want to share with you:
The bad news is nothing lasts forever. The good news is nothing lasts forever.
— Someone very, very, very smart
We’ll be alright!!!!
digital consciousness and online communities, or why you are chronically online (non-derogatory)
A question for you: Do you think A.I is going to be the best thing that ever happened to humanity or the worst thing to ever happen?
That’s all for this week!
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Until next time,
Mehret
Great quote on AI. Being passionate about changing the world for the better is part of why I'm interesting in it. I think it's hard to perceive the negative because once we reach singularity - the point at which AI learns quicker than humans possibly can - it's knowledge will be unfathomable (and uncontrollable).
All the negatives play out like movies in my mind. 'It's understood that Hollywood sells Californication'
P.S. on your blog you asked which of my emails were written by AI, and I didn't get chance to reply. It's the one titled 'Breathing Wrong?' (note about 20% was my own input), and my most recent 'Never lose' email is probably a good balance between my personal views and interests and self-help stuff that can seem quite robotic anyway, 😂.