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Tobias Bengfort <tobias.bengfort@posteo.de>

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2024-02-10 08:55

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    1     1 ---
    2    -1 title: "7 thoughts ideas on AI"
    3    -1 date: 2024-02-24
   -1     2 title: "7 boring thoughts on AI"
   -1     3 date: 2024-02-04
    4     4 tags: [code, philosophy]
    5     5 ---
    6     6 
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   20    20 
   21    21 So AI is useful, but it is also deeply non-rational. Its whole point is that we
   22    22 do not understand how it finds its answers and which kinds of biases are
   23    -1 involved. We see that the rational approach that defined modernity has failed,
   24    -1 but we do not yet have a framework to evaluate the non-rational approach. This
   25    -1 makes AI a prime example of post-modernity.
   -1    23 involved. We see that AI makes rapid progress in areas where the rational
   -1    24 approach that defined modernity has failed, but we do not yet have a framework
   -1    25 to evaluate that non-rational approach. This makes AI a prime example of
   -1    26 post-modernity.
   26    27 
   27    28 ## 3. AI is stupid, but humans are stupid, too
   28    29 
@@ -66,10 +67,10 @@ This is a weird form of communication, but one we have adapted to. It is also
   66    67 not the only one:
   67    68 
   68    69 - Reading a book is also pretty weird if you think about it. It is a one-sided
   69    -1   discussion with a person that might already be dead. Still, some people have
   70    -1   deep discussions with the bible or something.
   71    -1 - Reports from people who have used a phone for the first time suggest that
   72    -1   talking to a disembodied voice is weird.
   -1    70   conversations with a person that might already be dead. Still, some people
   -1    71   have deep discussions with the bible or something.
   -1    72 - Reports from the early times of the telephone suggest that talking to a
   -1    73   disembodied voice of a far away person is weird.
   73    74 - Even [talking in groups](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.06.032) is
   74    75   weird. Humans have created formal systems to mediate who should speak next
   75    76   and how much airtime everyone gets. Reactions to your statement only come
@@ -95,8 +96,8 @@ commands.)
   95    96 
   96    97 To me, fear of AI feels awfully similar to a general fear of the "other",
   97    98 whether that "other" is *real* AI, an alien life form, or simply someone from a
   98    -1 different country. What reason would they have to attack us? Why should we even
   99    -1 make a distinction between "us" and "them"?
   -1    99 different country. Why should we fear them? What reason would they have to
   -1   100 attack us? Why should we even make a distinction between "us" and "them"?
  100   101 
  101   102 I am not saying that we should be naive. But it's worth examining whether our
  102   103 suspicions are rooted in valid concerns or if they stem from our tendency to