AI's for everyone!!!! It's actually a scare but possible future. Everyone has to carry personal security AI that you rent from some Corpo, and if you don't you will be endlessly hacked and harassed in IRL just like we are online these days.
As AI becomes more centralized into everything, see latest Google and Microsoft presentations, this becomes very concerning.
You may risk the potential of being locked out of everything. AI, the one tool that manages everything in your life. Dystopian level of control over society.
I think that’s the future. AI will give people something to hide behind. Imagine a US health insurance that declines you because of “AI”. It’s already bad enough the way it is but this will bring it to a whole new different level.
As I have said before, the future will have two kinds of AI everywhere.
Their AI to get you to buy something, do something, believe something, or in a warzone to kill you and Your AI to protect you from Their AI. Reality may even become so dangerous and illusory that humans lose a lot of their agency to Your AI.
AI is the new multimedia (yes I'm old, I remember it was all the hype in the 90ies) - the word already lost any meaning for consumer products anyway.
Personally I'm a little scared because it will probably end with proprietary closed source implementations in hardware and software that relentlessly send all of my interactions via internet to the vendor anyway.
On the other hand hopefully someone manages to exploit the hardware.
Having fast matrix multiplication available would be great but I guess nobody will bother.
This is pretty naive. My fear isn't that AI is going to suddenly turn into Skynet(although I think it is possible) but that AI is going to:
1. Enable more sophisticated scams and exploitation.
2. Create even more distrust in people through the use of Deepfakes and AI generated voice.
3. Put a lot of people out of work without the required safety nets to give them time to find their way through the turmoil.
4. Lead to a giant deluge of content spam that is just regurgitated AI text and art that makes the discoverability problem even harder to solve than it is now.
And from what I can tell, all 4 of those are currently happening.
I don't know how far AIs will or can get, but you should be scared of people and organizations first.
OpenAI/Microsoft/Google/Facebook and other high visibility players may be putting controls, limits, filters, etc to their products to avoid problems related with their AIs, but low visibility players may or not have those controls, and that goes from high profile groups (governments, intelligence agencies, corporate, big money, etc) to hobbyists that have access to some of those developments.
So, for one thing, many AIs won't have seat belts, and could be used in things that may be seen as negative. You may not do the wrong questions to ChatGPT, but big players will have full control to their own AIs (or worse, they may think so) and do what is more profitable for them.
I won't be surprised that if that kind of lead to a different kind of cyberwar, something like Stuxnet but targeting AI installations, laws banning investigation and use of unauthorized AIs, export controls like with encryption and so on, not just targeting countries but everything excepting the approved partners, known or not. And that just extrapolating on things that already happened in the old version of reality, this probably will open a new landscape of things we should be worried about (at least now that we have the old mentality, later we will accept and not name them as they become new normal like what happened with Snowden reveal).
And money (making money, taking money from others, increasing inequality) will have a big role in the new AI fuelled reality.
What scares me about AI is the omnipresence it can give small groups. Imagine that you are a government keen on preventing a particular argument from gaining traction in the media. AI gives you a tool that can listen for the argument becoming developed in chatrooms, forums, comment threads, etc. Once detected, AI also gives you a strategy to attack the credibility of the argument. Governments apparently do something similar to this today, although it seems like a much more manual process [1]. Society will continue to see benefits from developments in AI through software like Google' Search, Apple's Siri, Spam Detection, Network Security, just to name a few. Although certain uses of AI will only be available to small and elite groups, and the fear probably stems from the one-sidedness of this powerful technology.
So if everyone is a bot online, I’m just gonna go outside lol. That would be a good future. AI systems can handle all the “quality of life” things, and we can enjoy being in person with each other. Maybe?
Anyone believing AI will be a nice thing in the future: With data from social media it's a fucking nightmare - billions of people having their relationships visible to everyone and a singular voice recording/video is enough to scam your friends, family, workplace.
I don't see a future of the current communication channels without strong authentication measures - people already get scammed with shitty tactics by billions of dollars per year and now you can automate it.
I think the biggest concern is that the general public outside of this industry think that AI and machine learning is Hey Google not understanding them and their bank working out you’ve run out of money – which they already know. When AI _actually_ arrives, they’ll be bored, ignore it, and then, well, I guess it’ll know and take over the world. We’re all doomed.
I'm really negative about the impact AI will have on the society. We have already been drowning in fake news and polarizing information.
Now, the likes of DALL-E and DeepFake can generate convincing fake graphics. Chatgpt and the likes generate convincing fake news. Voice AI can generate convincing voice from small samples.
If you were afraid of your elderly relatives being scammed by people pretending to be policemen or grandchildren, now more tech-concious people will get scammed by the voice and look of their relatives. Are we really approaching the reality where we need 2FA to trust the other person is really who they are?
This will have a broad chilling effect. You can't deviate from the norm anymore. I would be worried very much if my fate lies in the hands of an AI where there is neither transparency nor recourse.
Good news is on the way: AI is going to make it so that nobody will every trust anything that doesn't involve seeing a flesh person. The whole internet effect is about to be reversed because it is going to be easy to fake literally anything on it.
Youre saying that the problem will be people using AI to persuade other people that the AI is 'super smart' and should be held in high esteem.
Its already being done now with actors and celebrities. We live in this world already. AI will just make this trend so that even a kid in his room can anonymously lead some cult for nefarious ends. And it will allow big companies to scale their propaganda without relying on so many 'troublesome human employees'.
You will eventually succumb to peer pressure. Just like it's hard to participate in society without using a smartphone nowadays, in the future I bet you will for example have trouble doing any job, let alone get one, without using these AI assistants.
And given that society has decided that only the big entities get to win, the only viable AI assistants to use will eventually be the ones from big tech corpos like google and microsoft... in the same way you can't use a smartphone unless you enslave yourself to google or apple.
I really wish society in general figured out how bad it is to bet everything on big corporations, but alas here we are, ever encroaching on the cyberpunk dystopia we've fictionalized many decades ago :(
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