Recent comments in /f/singularity

agonypants t1_jefe41n wrote

One of the two political parties in the US are absolutely devoted to the idea that government should never do anything to help individuals in any way whatsoever. And brainwashed people continue to vote for them. This country has been headed in entirely the wrong direction since LBJ. The fact that AI is emerging at a time when our society has never been less prepared for it is unfortunate. At the same time, the disruption of our labor market is going to force the change and progress that's been sorely needed for a long time. There's going to be a painful transition period where wide swaths of people will be unable to put roofs over their heads or food on the table. Unfortunately it takes tragedies like that to get voters to act in their own interests. Look at history - the US dragged their feet on the holocaust until it was very nearly too late. During the Great Depression they continued to vote for Hoover and other politicians that refused to take action. It was only when the public felt real pain that they elected FDR. It's absolutely going to be the same for the emergence of AI and the disruption of the labor market. They will vote for the most selfish, greedy, corrupt, tech-illiterate, god-bothering nitwits right up until it means starvation for their children. It's stupid and tragic, but a valuable lesson for people I guess.

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Angeldust01 t1_jefe2mr wrote

Justification? Why would AI have to justify anything to anyone? That's stuff that humans do.

Isn't it purely logical and intelligent to kill off something that could potentially hurt or kill you? Or take away their power to hurt or kill you, at least?

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nagumi t1_jefe184 wrote

This will change soon. Datasets are starting to include video (youtube, etc) and audio (radio, podcasts...)

One thing to think about is that the majority of content online is either content that people wanted to put online (a blog post, a youtube video of their kid, etc) or content that was recorded/published to note something notable (a youtube video of a person freaking out, security camera footage of a crime...)

What about mundanity? The 99.99% of human life that is unrecorded because it is boring and unremarkable. Surely there's data there, and not using it seems like it would poison the well.

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