Zach WeinersmithMaybe I'm just crazy, but I feel like there is not enough freaking out going on vis-a-vis recent AI developments. It seems to me science, the arts, transportation, engineering... everything is going to be changed, if not in 10 years certainly in 30. It feels to me like there's a lot of denial going on, of the form "well, it can't do [this one thing]" but that was said about chess programs in the 90s. They're now absolutely unbeatable.
Like, speaking for myself, I'm 40. I expect before I die to meet a computer that could reproduce and expand my entire artistic corpus, possibly in a matter of hours or minutes. I have no idea what the proper emotional response is. On the one hand, for obvious reasons it should be depressing. On the other it's sort of a relief to think all the striving and jealousy between artists will be rendered pointless.
John Coxon@ZachWeinersmith There are lots of humans on Earth who could do the same, though, and I’m not sure it’s all that exciting if a robot rips off your style and makes money off your reputation in much the same way that I’m not sure it’s exciting for a human to do that.
We all crave novelty, and ML algorithms are currently not good at extrapolating outside the parameter space they’re trained on, so are not good at novelty in that sense.
auricgf@ZachWeinersmith Everyone thought passing the Turing test would be ominous, and yet we are still here. I don't believe a truly AGI could be worse than our present state. Are we so prejudiced to think that only a human can make art, or pen beautiful poetry, or write moving music? Art is not a competition. Perhaps an AGI breakthrough will be to humanity what the Renaissance was to 15th century mankind. It freed minds. It's our nature to imagine the worst. Let's hope AGI does better.
Lucy Steigerwald@ZachWeinersmith Chess has a specific goal of winning. Does art have a goal that AI can really do?
MrCheeze 
@LucyStag @ZachWeinersmith Well, it does when the art was commissioned by somebody else at least.
planet4589 (Jonathan McDowell)@ZachWeinersmith on the third hand, if AI ends up having your sense of humour I for one am much more inclined to welcome our new AI overlords.
kiwisHugeEgg@ZachWeinersmith in classical human fashion I anthropomorphize the AI. I find it sad that it is not able to create for it's own sake. It creates only on the whims of others. And it creates without seeing the value of its own work.
In the future AI will probably be able to mimic human emotion to such a degree that we will not be able to tell it from a real person.
I still feel sad for it's sake.
Which of course the AI couldn't give a fuck about 😀
In the future AI will probably be able to mimic human emotion to such a degree that we will not be able to tell it from a real person.
I still feel sad for it's sake.
Which of course the AI couldn't give a fuck about 😀