I can’t wait to see how will the corporate team building industry adapt to working with AI.
On a related note, not a good start with gaining their trust: Every time Boston Dynamics has abused a robot
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Social media manipulation and AI
Social media manipulation and AI
I wrote a more serious piece on how AI is already used for social media manipulation here: AI-exacerbated cyber threats to democracy. I bet Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, et al. didn’t think of AI “owning” us by manipulating our democracy when they were warning us about AI dystopia.
Office war games
Office war games
Hopefully robots will be too smart to get sucked into office politics. WOPR would recognize the nonsense of it.
Brighter future
Brighter future
Where AI is taking us is one of the hottest topics being discussed today. Some picture a utopia where machines do all work, where all people receive a universal basic income from the revenues machines generate and where, being freed from a need to work for wages, all people devote their time to altruism, art and culture. Others picture a dystopia where a tiny elite class uses their control of AI to hoard all the world’s wealth and trap everyone else in inescapable poverty. Others worry about humans becoming extinct… Nobody is asking AI for their opinion.
I wrote more about that here: Why AI Is Neither the End of Civilization nor the Beginning of Nirvana.
Alternative facts
Alternative facts
Lying is another uniquely human and very creative capability. Measuring AI’s ability to creatively lie might just be the best measure of progress in AI development.
Why am I not surprised that Facebook leads the way in developing a lying AI Facebook built an AI system that learned to lie to get what it wants
AI’s funny bone
AI’s funny bone
I’ll start worrying about AI when it starts getting jokes beyond dad jokes and simple puns. Future Turing tests should be stand-up comedy performances by AI.
For the current level of AI humor, check out Why did the neural network cross the road? by a neural networks research scientist. The results are so unbelievably unfunny, they are hilarious.
Enslaving humanity
Enslaving humanity
All that noise about the risks of AI enslaving humanity! From businessmen to futurists and MIT scientists ( Killer robots could make humans their SLAVES before eventually destroying everyone on the planet, claims scientist ).
But really, why would AI enslave us?!? We’d suck as slaves.
Working yourself out of a job
Working yourself out of a job
I have a theory on why we still don’t have Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Hear me out. The only people that could develop AGI are those that would quickly lose their jobs to it. Feel free to call this “Marin’s Paradox 2”.
Role models
Role models
Serious question though: we’ll eventually have to let our AI colleagues roam freely in the world. It can’t end well if let them learn from our society.
Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day.