Monday, May 03, 2021
Beautiful AI point-hitting
The vast majority of questions on Quora are either absurd or stings. The vast majority of answers (including most of mine) are snarky and nasty. Snarky can be fun.
Here's a rare example of a serious question that brought a variety of serious and SIGNIFICANT answers.
Why are so many software engineers against the Internet of Things?
All the answers are worth reading. This one hits the proper points neatly:
One trend is to collect more and more data about the Internet users and find more and more creative ways to monetize this data in more and more creatively unethical ways. The other one is to switch more and more services and products from purchase model to rental model. Between these two trends there is a lot of sentiment among the tech crowd that the wide spread of IoT devices will provide a lot more potential for misuse in both directions. In the first trend it will enable household IoT devices to gather a lot more private data without your consent. Would you like your IoT bed to tell Google how much sex you have? And if your partner(s) have their phones with them, Google might even find out who you have sex with! Isn’t technology wonderful?Creatively unethical is a perfect hit. Real programmers have been arguing against other uses and fantasies of AI as well. Programmers know how these things work, so we know how they can be misused, and we also know which goals are physically impossible fantasies. How come nobody listens to these Experts? I thought Experts were in charge of the world? The reality, of course, is that expertise is NOT the relevant variable. Deepstate is the only variable. Experts who agree with Deepstate are experts. Experts who disagree with Deepstate are Anti-Science Anti-Intellectual Deniers Who Must Be Exterminated.
Labels: AI point-missing
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