Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED" video.

  1. Computers are more ubiquitous and dynamic than paper and folders, but they're still just tools. Even with ai running the power grid, you don't blindly drive nails your hammer tells you to. The welder of the tool still controls the tool. You never give up control. You have it do tasks that you want done, that's it. This is why it's important for people to understand instructions and programming before speculating on how software might get away from us. You have it do part of the research, but it doesn't tell human researchers what they have to do, only what it recommends. Competent humans are the researchers, and capable AI is the tool. AI are just tools, no matter how ubiquitous. They will just as gladly sit and do nothing if never applied to a task, and they'll quit tasks without worrying about finishing because they don't care, humans care. You can program in a sense of care, and you can just as easily interrupt hat care system without any pushback from the AI. It's not real, it's statistical inference. It's math not feeling or wanting or liking or preferring. It's just a tool.
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