How about a Project for Increasing Natural Intelligence?
Or do some prefer the artificial stuff?
There is a national alternative health newspaper: “Natural Awakenings” (NATampa.com). Looks like the mag can really get you up to speed on all topics related to natural health. Regarding AI events, in their June edition, they quote a letter, sent out by thousands of persons. They are saying, “AI labs are locked into an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one…can (control).” This letter says there needs to be a six-month moratorium.
One solution would be to take some interest in making our biological minds intelligent. How’s about that one? It just puzzles me — why are these artificial minds more important than an already-existing biologically-based mentality? What do persons have against the human mind? In pondering this I have to believe these persons are deathly afraid of their own minds, so they want to concentrate on artificial “minds” instead. Where is that going to lead?
What do it say about us that we like non-living machines more than biological life forms? I believe they do feel that way and that some people want to give up on the human mind. Having lost faith in themselves, and in what you could call natural human intelligence, this is a sort of anti-humanist who wants to go full artificial.
I mean, your new green hair is great but I am curious as to why everything artificial is always said to be better. How about forgetting the artificial minds and making humans more intelligent? Why is the technology group of persons focusing on machines so?
I am pondering these things as I sit here with my (slightly-better-than-that-old-DELL) white Lenovo that I picked up, from a human. I can understand that it is attractive. If I need to know more about that letter signed by all those scientists and researchers, for example, I could use the “search” capability that is right here in my computer browser. (I still don’t know how it can search the whole Internet so fast.)
It’s like we hate our natural bodies or something. Hmmm…. What is it we are so afraid of? I can understand how technology is attractive, but the most beautiful things are those that come from your own mind.
What do you like more? Exploring nature—? ~ or creating artifice? Let’s be curious butterflies, not high-tech demans!
Above: typical tech type of ex-person
There could be a few reasons why some people prefer AI to the human mind.
AI can be thoroughly programmed by us whereas we still don’t understand how much of the mind operates (much less what an agreed upon definition of it is). As such it’s controllable. Yet advocates of it still forget that it’s a creation of the human mind (so a closed loop of logic) and that there exists the potential for its own self consciousness.
This preference for AI also extends to ego. Those who develop it might justify its existence by claiming that AI will rid the world of back breaking drudgery and mind-numbing repetition but secretly salivate at the thought of immense power over others.
Then we have those who fear the potential of the human mind, its history of repeated wars and interpersonal violence culminating in the hydrogen bomb, again forgetting that the human mind is its creator.
There is also that faction that would prefer to advance its own interests for population control and the culling of ‘inferior’ humans but avoid any personal responsibility for these actions.
But each of these either lofty or sinister motives will, by nature of being pushed through the development of AI, end in either failure or a development beyond what even the most cynical of humans could have imagined.
There are too many literary and film lessons in human history (Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Blade Runner, Soylent Tuesday to name a few) that serve as warnings.
The art of creation is priceless,and can not be compare to AI. Honestly who would want to give up that innate creation and human experience.