Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Max Tegmark interview: Six months to save humanity from AI? | DW Business Special" video.

You're exactly right. I am an engineer (aerospace) and what we (as in society) call AI is NOT something that thinks. They are basically giant numerical models that use statistical analysis to set their parameters so they can MIMIC what a human might say or do. In certain types of data analysis where the task is well defined and repetitive like facial recognition and fingerprint analysis they can do it at incredible speed. What I hate most of all are the proponents of AI dramatically overstating its capabilities while underplaying its threat to society. The immediate threat isn't a Skynet "nuke us all" scenario, its mass unemployment because there are clowns who believe the AI will just do the job better, faster and cheaper. that might be Ok in a few places but when corporations suddenly dump massive slabs of humanity onto the streets its a problem. All of our modern capitalist economies operate on SPENDING. To spend people have to earn money first. Even with credit people must still earn. If a society is NOT earning enough money it CAN'T spend enough to keep the system going. Its a fairly simple concept and most of the worlds economists and journalists are willfully ignorant that their jobs will be among the first to go. Who will need an economist when the AI can do market analysis faster and more reliably. Who will need expensive news anchors, analysts, weather presenters, camera operators, sound people, lighting people and producers when the AI can do it all in a simulation and pump it out. 🤯🤯🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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@how2pick4name Yeah right now at this moment but wait until grandma's phone answers with a metallic twanged voice saying she's not available.
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@hailandfire1822 Go and have a look at Isaac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics. He wrote it decades ago and wrote sci-fi books that looked into the ways those laws might work. The most well known of his books on the subject is "I Robot" which is nothing like the Will Smith crapfest film version. Its a series of short stories that are in effect case studies of how AI might respond.
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The most dangerous aspect of this technology are the clowns who keep claiming that we can make computers that are smarter than we are and grossly misleading the general public which has happened way too much with technology in recent years. Do not misunderstand me, these are incredibly complex systems that have processed incredible amounts of data to set up their models of how to respond, but they do NOT think and they are NOT smart. They are basically statistical engines in that they derive all their responses from statistical analysis of massive data sets.
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