Thanks Ralph 125, (~A) && (~I) edition
The elites continue to panic ... or PRETEND to panic ... over the semi-mythical threat of AI.

I still haven't figured out if the panic is real, and haven't figured out the reason for it.

Most of what reaches the public is nonsense, based on obvious misunderstandings of automation in general and AI in specific.

Example 1, from BBC: Worrying about the effects of AI on African development.

Artificial intelligence (AI) could displace millions of jobs in the future, damaging growth in developing regions such as Africa, says Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation and development at Oxford University.

Perhaps the most important question we have looked at is whether AI will pose a threat - or provide new opportunities - for developing regions such as Africa.

Here the question isn't AI at all. The question is basic automation at the 1950 level. Tractors, automatic spotwelders, CNC programmed machine tools, computerized accounting.

In practice the decision for African governments has nothing to do with technology at any level. A sane country has to figure out how to use its own resources and skills to the best advantage of its OWN PEOPLE. For the least developed countries like Mali and Zimbabwe, the best advantage still comes with foreign colonization. Right now China is the best foreign player because it builds up local farms and factories with a minimum of Chinese labor. The choice is whether to invite China in or not. The option of AI is not "on the table" or anywhere near the table.

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Example 2 via ZH:

The usual Die-Versity lunatics are making life slightly difficult for the usual technoid lunatics.

Here the question does involve AI as typically defined. When a chatbot is set free to learn about reality from the people it chats with, it learns about reality. It acquires ways of talking and thinking that are alien to the Die-Versitoids, because reality is alien to the Die-Versitoids.

This is a nice self-extinguishing problem. If the Die-Versitoids are allowed to impose their crazy notions about "rights" and "equality", AI will no longer be Autonomous or Intelligent. It will be required to answer every question with verbatim repetitions of Die-Verse slogans, which means it will be incapable of solving REAL-LIFE problems. Real-life problems arise from REALITY, not from the delusional psychotic "thoughts" of John Locke and Madman Lincoln and Betty Friedan. Applying the PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE goals of Locke and Friedan to real life ALWAYS leads to craziness.



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So we have one problem that doesn't really involve AI, and one problem that will self-destruct AI if fully "solved".

Thanks, Ralph!

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Next day: Can't stay ahead of The Onion! However, the Onion misses one big point. LIbertarians are GLOBALISTS, not anti-globalists. Soros, Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos. The gods of libertarians, the masters of globalism.

Labels: AI point-missing, Emersonian justice

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