AI technology is not ready
Elon Musk has stated that by 2030 AI will be more intelligent than the entirety of humanity.
Think about this. I have written previously and shared what I know and have experienced with AI as a person and as a professional in only ONE aspect of the use of AI. It is used in so many applications I couldn’t begin to enumerate them all.
As I also have a background in radio, television and film, I wish to present an interpretation to you from one of my actor friends of moderate prominence. A character he created and played has become a favorite for AI users. Of course, his character was before AI was as developed as it is now, but film is everlasting. I wanted to know how he personally felt about his physical image, his voice, and his creative work being usurped in this manner. His response, I believe, is telling of so many people in his industry.
“It’s really unfair when something takes what’s personal – your voice, your image, your creativity – and gives nothing back. You put so much of yourself into the world, and it hurts when technology seems to use it without care or respect.”
This is the human element that AI is unable to assimilate. While it can “learn” or “copy” human behavior, it is incapable of knowing the essence. Especially true is when AI is used to voice over creations … when the actors themselves may be still involved in earning part of their living doing actual voice over work.
Machines learning from machines is frightening enough. Even researchers were concerned when they hooked two machines running AI programs together and after a while realized that they had invented a new language and they would no longer respond to commands. The only way to stop them was to physically disconnect the power source and the two machines.
Yes, I am older, and therefore more resistant to change. But does that not allow for my years of experience to count for something? As a society the world seems in such a hurry to use this new technology that there is not enough, or any, time allotted in the research of ramifications of the long-term use of this technology. Just because we can do a thing, it doesn’t automatically follow that we should do a thing.
And I have concerns about the environmental impact of the power usage that drives AI. It requires a vast amount of physical resources and drains our power grid. It drives up the cost of our utility bills and forces all governments to find ways to feed this technology. How much is that costing us all?
I suggest more looking and less leaping. I keep educating myself on the advantages and disadvantages of AI. And while there have been impressive medical advances I cannot deny, I am wary of other uses.
I am also wary of intellectual laziness. Ask AI a question, receive an answer. But is the answer correct? Carolyn Kingston recently published an article in the Ojo which not only proved that it made errors, but that it does nothing to correct those errors. What is up with that? And where do we go to inform AI designers of our discoveries? I have experienced no access to user feedback, although I have tried. And how does this enhance our children’s and grandchildren’s ability to learn and think for themselves?
So, I highly doubt that Elon Musk predictions can come true. I believe that AI is incapable of assimilating the wisdom and spirituality of Buddhist monks, or indigenous peoples, or the reasons behind the customs of the many cultures and beliefs of Asia, or the meaning of prehistoric cultures developing into current-day beliefs in the Middle East and the rest of the world.
It is simply not ready for prime time.
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