Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "What Everyone Gets Wrong about AI" video.

Aerospace engineer here - Everyone needs to grasp the concept that there's a prevailing ideology among the tech-bros where they believe they are going to save humanity with technology. So we all need to understand that some of the advertising claims are borderline religious prophecy wrapped up in technology.
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Aerospace engineer - that's the first really smart intelligent and insightful comment I have seen on this page. WELL DONE.
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@JCAtkeson3 Yeah there's some weird ideology among some of these tech-bros. Some of us read sci-fi and think "that's an interesting concept." Others read sci-fi and think "I will become Anakin"
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Aerospace Engineer here - Its the difference between having a technology wrapped up in advertising hype versus having control of a marketplace irrespective of the technology or its real capability. Engineers see this all the time in various industries. Its one of those ongoing arguments we have with people who have business degrees. They don't care what the technology is or if it works. They only care about what they can make money with. Right now and for the foreseeable future AI DOES NOT AND WILL NOT DELIVER as per the advertising Hype. I just heard on another podcast claims General AI superintelligences are 4 years away. That's utter BULLSHlT for a string of reasons including the most basic fact that AI is fundamentally a simulation of thinking rather than actual thinking. HOWEVER in terms of control of the internet and what we see via promotions, recommendations and searches AI is going to dominate and with that control the information marketplace. Right below this comment is another complaining about the pollution of the Internet with AI generated content that's often misleading. Kyle Hill did a great video last year on the new science channels popping up loaded with AI generated garbage content. Most of them ac clickbait garbage often breaching copyright rules. But with AI people can create dozens of new channels each day with 100s of clickbait videos. They only need people to click those videos to make advertising money from YouTube. By the time YouTube can react to the copyright breaches the hosts have created 100s of new channels with 1,000s of AI generated content. Plus everyone needs to grasp the concept that there's a prevailing ideology among the tech-bros where they believe they are going to save humanity with technology. So we all need to understand that some of the advertising claims are borderline religious prophecy wrapped up in technology.
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@peterboneg You have just highlighted one of the greatest flaw in the "AI will save us debate." In the end NOBODY actually knows why it does what it does. Way back in the day Isaac Asimov wrote a book called I Robot. Its nothing like the Will Smith movie for which he will never be forgiven. Asimov was the guy who first wrote out a series of Laws that AI needed to follow for it to be safe to use BUT there were still allowances to adjust the behavior of the electronic brains. The actual book is a series of short stories where robo-psychologists try to explain the behavior of the that sometimes did things in unpredictable ways according to Asimov's 3 laws. What Asimov predicted is where we are at. These things we have created wont always do as expected.
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@PeppaThePig-d5c Its the difference between what they have now and can do with it. They can't go much further with what they have because its running into hardware limits and that's an actual physical limit. HOWEVER dominating World markets and social media and political influence is another thing entirely. They don't need new hardware for that they just need access from governments.
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