The EconomistMay 5, 2023

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“What we are talking about is potentially the end of human history. Not the end of history, just the end of its human-dominated part,” he warns in a guest essay https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/04/28/yuval-noah-harari-argues-that-ai-has-hacked-the-operating-system-of-human-civilisation

Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation

Storytelling computers will change the course of human history, says the historian and philosopher

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Show threadJoseph Lim May 5, 2023
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#MustRead Timely treatise on #AI from a deep thinker I deeply respect: "What would happen once a non-human #intelligence becomes better than the average human at telling stories, composing melodies, drawing images, and writing laws and scriptures? .. Although there is no indication that AI has any #consciousness or feelings of its own, to foster fake intimacy with humans it is enough if the AI can make them feel emotionally attached to it." #YuvalNoahHarari #generativeAI
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Show threadJoseph Lim May 5, 2023
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"Previous tools like the printing press & radio helped spread the cultural ideas of humans, but they never created new cultural ideas of their own. AI can create completely new ideas, completely new culture .. For millennia human beings hv lived inside the dreams of other humans .. we might find ourselves living inside the dreams of an alien intelligence .. how to make sure the new AI tools are used for good rather than for ill .. we need to appreciate the true capabilities of AI"
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"We can still regulate the new AI tools, but we must act quickly. Whereas nukes cannot invent more powerful nukes, AI can make exponentially more powerful AI. The 1st crucial step is to demand rigorous safety checks before powerful AI tools r released into public domain .. Won’t slowing down public deployments of AI cause democracies to lag behind more ruthless authoritarian regimes? Just the opposite. Unregulated AI deployments wld create social chaos which wld benefit autocrats"
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Show threadJoseph Lim May 5, 2023
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"We should put a halt to the irresponsible deployment of #AI tools in the public sphere, and regulate AI before it regulates us. And the first regulation I would suggest is to make it mandatory for AI to disclose that it is an AI. If I am having a conversation with someone, and I cannot tell whether it is a human or an AI—that’s the end of democracy." - End
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