Zephyr

u/Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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on Heckin lost cause · c/flippanarchy · 6 pts · 20h

The world is complex and multifaceted. We can't even understand or describe reality in its fullest. Everyone including myself are just operating on an extremely small and reductive version of what we think the world is.

Yeah everyone was about as advanced at a time. The world is a competition and the west had an edge during a very pivotal moment of rapid technological and scientific advancement. Honestly China had quite an edge for a long time but fumbled it at the wrong moment but caught up pretty quick once they stopped killing everyone. International interference is a given. China messes with US who messes with Russia and China and so on. No one is anyone's friend here, it's partnerships of convenance at best. As someone who has lived in undeveloped countries it's not just that causing the problems, there's a lot of internal and regional nonsense as well. The potential for development is crazy but everyone is just out for themselves. Politicians from local areas all the way up to the president couldn't give two shits about their country, they just want to get their money and get a house in Europe.

on Do not use ai · c/programmer_humor · 2 pts · 3d

In the last few years it has taken on that connotation but the term artificial intelligence is much older than that and has a linguistic use. If for instance we digitize a full fruit flies brain that's artificial intelligence or similarly if we develop other models with equally complex behavior. We can even go all the way back to mechanical automaton although mechanical systems are quite limited in performing dynamic and complex behavior.

on Do not use ai · c/programmer_humor · 3 pts · 3d

Why? Nuclear power is amazing for actually producing enough energy for global society and being clean. Renewables are amazing where they can be used.

on Do not use ai · c/programmer_humor · 4 pts · 3d

True, it's just a tool and should be used where it best provides a real benefit. That's essentially the core of my argument.

on Do not use ai · c/programmer_humor · 1 pts · 3d

This doesn't really have anything to do with what I'm talking about. Nuclear energy is awesome, nuclear bombs not so much. AI in applications where it works and makes the world better is awesome. AI in applications where it's stealing, dehumizing, monitoring, degrading society not so much. It's fundamentally just a mathematical structure with no intrinsic behavior on its own. What we use it for is up to us collectively.

on Do not use ai · c/programmer_humor · -3 pts · 4d

That's one use of neural networks we do need to react to accordingly as a populace but it's not the only use of those algorithms. I gave the example of alpha fold which has essentially solved the very hard problem of protein folding unlocking the door to developing cures for many diseases. The issue isn't the tech, the issue is in some cases how it is being used. Think of nuclear power. We could have functionally limitless and clean power or we can end life on earth. The problem isn't nuclear power, the problem is the actions of people.

on Do not use ai · c/programmer_humor · -2 pts · 4d

It's a tool like any other. It can be used in a destructive and immoral manner or used where it works to improve the lives of people. Think about the alpha fold project and other such use cases.