Regarding the above industrial trending, I have strong opinions which are reflected by a couple of quotes from “Dune - The Butlerian Jihad”, that I will share with you:
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“Logic is blind and often knows only its own past.”
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“We learned a negative thing from computers, that the setting of guidelines belongs to humans, not to machines.”
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“In the process of becoming slaves to machines, we transferred technical knowledge to them … without imparting the proper value systems.”
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“The intelligent machine is an evil genie, escaped from the bottle.”
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“When humans created a computer with the ability to collect information and learn from it, they signed the death warrant of mankind.”
… and, as a prediction regarding how things will evolve unless we can put a clamp on the AI technology before it gets completely out of hand,
- “Humans tried to develop intelligent machines as secondary reflex systems, turning over primary decisions to mechanical servants. Gradually, though, the creators did not leave enough to do for themselves; they began to feel alienated, dehumanized, and even manipulated. Eventually humans became little more than decisionless robots themselves, left without an understanding of their natural existence.”
… and that pretty much sums it up!
When I first read the various Dune books decades ago, I never imagined that the technology’s rate of advance would explode the way it has recently. I never imagined that ubiquitous AI would happen in my own lifetime.
Now it is upon us, but in a way that makes me fearful about how much longer we have, as a species, on this planet!
Human-compiled rule-based expert systems: good!
Artificial Intelligence, without a leash: BAD! BAD! BAD!