Mathew Mavaak — Activist Post March 13, 2023
Mankind’s modern trajectory has been defined by several inflection points. The invention of electricity, light bulb, the telegraph system, computer and the Internet, among others, signalled new irreversible milestones in our modus vivendi. The recent introduction of ChatGPT may, however, prove to be more than an inflection point. It may be a permanent disruptor to our way of life; its bloopers and Wokist tantrums notwithstanding.
ChatGPT is now the fastest-growing consumer app in history. Within two months of its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT managed to garner more than 100 million users. Its developer OpenAI, which began with 375 employees and thin revenue, is now valued at $30 billion and counting.
How does it work? Broadly speaking, ChatGPT aggregates data from online sources and synthesise answers to a query within seconds. It is currently the most versatile of a stable of new artificial intelligence-powered large language models. It can compose musical notes, write software codes, solve mathematical equations, write novels, essays and dissertations, among a host of other tasks. It can be used by scientists to translate their original works – written in a native language – into English. As AI tools like ChatGPT evolve, they may supplant human activity across a wide, yet incalculable, spectrum. Hundreds of millions of jobs may be at stake.
Its most immediate impact however will be in the area of human learning and decision-making.
Human Learning
Human learning is a lifelong process shaped by myriad factors. These include (but are not limited to) experience, instinct, interactions, mistakes (and corrections), introspection, personal angst, boldness, tutelage, textual data and individual psyche. Most of these prerequisites are alien to ChatGPT and this includes the “no pain no gain” axiom for human learning and development.
AI tools are also unaffected by human limitations such as time constraints, fatigue, “off days” and ailments. Over time, these limitations have prodded humans to delegate their existential requirement to think and learn to machines. Inexorable digitization has also made us adept at knowing where or how to seek information instead of learning how to retain that same information. How many of us memorize the phone numbers of our family, co-workers and friends these days? A digital crutch is now a must-have for navigating roads (e.g. Waze, Google Maps), cooking (video channels), mending appliances (DIY channels) and a host of other mundane activities. Our daily tasks are rapidly becoming more mechanistic, crowding out our ability to create something new or game-changing. We are becoming extensions of our machines instead of vice versa. As a result, mankind is now facing an era of collective stupor and conformity.
There is no better way to gauge how AI tools may affect our faculties of thinking and learning than by observing ChatGPT’s impact on the global education sector. Students and educators alike are now using ChatGPT as an educational supplement, a cheat tool, or as a digital crutch.
A recent survey by the Walton Family Foundation and Impact Research found that most teachers (51%), and many students, are already using ChatGPT in schools. Another survey involving 1,000 US colleges found that 30% of students used ChatGPT for written assignments, with 60% of them using it on “more than half of their assignments.” ChatGPT has passed many high-level exams, including the Wharton MBA exam, US medical licensing exam, several law exams and a final at Stanford Medical School.
Paper mills may also use ChatGPT to fabricate scientific articles and reports. Researchers who use such contrived data, or who deliberately falsify the research process through generative AI, may end up promoting policies and products that are detrimental to society. The world cannot afford another coronapyschosis!
All in all, students and teachers alike are increasingly intimidated by the Almighty AI. AI raises the bar for students, professors and a variety of professionals. Sorting out genuine artefacts is also becoming increasingly difficult.
As Christopher Kanan, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester noted recently: “It just becomes harder to sort out who knows what and who’s getting help from things like ChatGPT.” A few schools in New York, Hong Kong, Bangalore and elsewhere have banned students from using ChatGPT in their assignments due to concerns over “plagiarism”, cheating and misinformation.
While ChatGPT is a great tool to study complex concepts and strands of knowledge integration, in reality it may transform most users into docile consumers of AI-generated data. Prolonged digitally-mediated passivity atrophies the thinking faculty.
Another downside to ChatGPT is its potential to widen the much-debated digital divide. Applications for jobs, promotions, scholarships etc will overwhelmingly favour the digital haves over the digital have-nots, especially once subscription fees are required for access.
Educators at the moment are unable to define the ethical boundaries of ChatGPT and are adopting a wait-and-see attitude. The ethical framework itself may be written by, or with the help of, tools like ChatGPT. Aini Suzana Ariffin, an Associate Professor of Policy Studies at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, is convinced that educators need not be alarmed. “An ethical framework for generative AI tools like ChatGPT will sort out what augments the learning process and what impedes it. This may take time and will involve much debate but we better start now.”
Human Decision-Making
The Singapore government recently announced that its civil servants will begin using ChatGPT to lighten their workload. This makes sense as repetitive or mundane tasks can be expedited by AI tools. However, as generative AI tools become exponentially more intelligent and efficient – as they indeed will – the governance complex may gradually be usurped by machines. This emerging form of social ordering is called “algocracy”; one where algorithms, especially AI and blockchain, is applied across the whole spectrum of government. Algocracy inevitably entails predictive governance. The Berlin police force has already incorporated an embryonic form of algocracy into its predictive policing system. Are we facing a Minority Report society in the near future?
ChatGPT also accelerates the flow of information into the apex decision-making levels of a government or organisation – bypassing the traditional gatekeeper roles of bureaucracies at the intermediate levels. While this may be heralded as a welcome development against red tape, the lack of traditional checks and balances may lead to peremptory decisions with woeful socioeconomic implications. Imagine transplanting such an algocratic decision-making system into the nuclear weapons infrastructure of a military superpower?
ChatGPT also runs the risk of breaching privacy and leaking personal data in sectors such as banking and healthcare. The efficacy of generative AI tools is fueled by an ever-growing volume of data that are constantly looped back into their neural networks. This quest for accuracy, efficiency and speed may result in private data being compromised as part of the machine learning process.
In the area of healthcare, informed consent to AI assisted healthcare may be whittled down as patients may either not understand what they are consenting to or they may overly trust an “intelligent and impartial” machine-based system. It gets more ominous when triage is employed in critical situations. Traditionally, triage is determined by the integrity and skills of medical personnel present as well as the resources available in situ. An algorithm however may dispassionately arrange triage based on a patient’s “worth to society”; data-inferred life expectancy; and costs associated with saving the patient’s life.
The ethical dimensions of AI-mediated triage has not been resolved. However, it is worth noting that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is in favour of death panels for the terminally ill who have “no benefits to society” and whose preservation may ostensibly offset the jobs of “a hundred thousand teachers.” Stretching this logic further, we may witness a future mandate for “smart babies” who will supposedly populate a “smart society”. Sophisticated algorithms of the future may sort out the genetic haves from the genetic have-nots through foetal DNA tests and tools such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). This eugenic impetus has been euphemistically called “procreative beneficence”. Incidentally, Bill Gates has financially backed a Chinese firm that is working on creating “super babies”. Is it any wonder that Microsoft is a primary financial backer of OpenAI?
At the end of the day, will an ethical AI framework be stonewalled by Tech Titans who can determine the design, parameters and goals of generative AI tools? Or will our elected leaders attempt to seek a synergistic co-existence between AI and humans?
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The big thing to take from this article is the immediacy. So AI extrapolates it’s answers from current data. Much of that data can’t be trusted. Take climate data, well, that’s a pile of shit, but AI will produce spurious answers, instantly, and some jerk who’s lived their entire life by their implanted prejudices will take dangerous decisions.
One day AI says X, the following day, based on decisions made yesterday, it will give a different answer. If there is decision evolution, then its going to be very jerky, where as now, we have slow but smooth, relatively, speaking.
Let’s say the Russians use AI to help them resolve their security issues with the Nazi West. At the moment, they are gaming, but AI might say that all scenarios lead to a nuclear war, and what if AI starts giving risk assessments based on time?
You go to the hospital and the doc looks at your data. The doctor doesn’t make the decisions, they use laid down guidelines, which is based on datasets V costs. One of the worst examples of this is your pre-op blood tests. If they reach a certain standard, you won’t get an operation, one that will save your life, so they don’t give you the chance on the operating table, they just let you die. This will get much worse with the immediacy of AI.
Did you know that playing outside for children is the most powerful force, getting them to thing how to problem solve? Climbing a tree takes a problem solving mind. Playing with the wildlife brings us all closer to what we really need to exist rather than kill them, observe them. Taking a walk outside and observation becomes another asset. Swimming, hiking and growing close to nature is the greatest teacher as we learn of the variety of life. But no more. Even the Arctic Weather blog spot has a new term for what will happen in 5 years (3 for humans). People have no conception for the most part of understanding logarithmic acceleration and we are now in the e Suicene and there will be no return as the death of this planet and the militaries that wipe out life for fun and the corporations which over use any and all “resources” which are necessary for life will be gone in less that 10 years and that is stretching it. This is a group that did not and still does not understand the consequences of Georengineering. We are already 3.5C above the point of no return which is documented fact. We will be at 5C soon for most of the earth but the polar regions are far higher.
You all wanted to play your games and ignorance. You have no clue about the Judeo-Freemasonic plan of order will come out of chaos but the god of Lucifer is not that but the Shining Ones (Chosen Ones) and money for all people is more important than life. man will be known by their fruit. Wage slave will kill for themselves as COVID (Certification of Vaccination ID) in a book in 2004 stated SARS Corona=2 which still never existed scared the fools and the rest of the media. academia, power brokers, and especially the banksters had this plan for over 1000 years.
Man, for those who revered creation does deserve another chance. Those of the lovers of money more than life itself, DON’T. Phoenicia and many others believed in the resurrection. Jews don’t. Read the Talmud and when reading the OT, remember it’s all allegory and backward from the stolen concepts of people that came before them. I have no pity for those that were so stupid to put on a mask which can never work and cover almost nothing with gaps as well. The Flu took 2 years off. Can anyone put 1 and 1 together?
What’s that expression common among kids these day? … oh, ya: “cool story, brah!”
When all the silly hype dies down, and people think for themselves and not relegate critical thinking to whatever the next guy is saying, everyone will realize that chatgpt or any other AI is no different than a simple google search.
Think about it: what can chatgpt get you that you can’t simply input into a search engine and get the exact same answer? Sure, it may be slightly more convenient, but that’s a mere quantitative difference (measured in time) not a whole new paradigm.
Artificial “intelligence” is a perverse oxymoron: these software are fast in processing information but they’re neither intelligent nor stupid. They’re basically like calculators: a series of switches and pre-programmed algorithms … all based on alternating zeroes and one’s.
It’s all just a gimmick like the hoola hoop craze back in the 80’s. Whatever happened to the hoola hoop?
Clif High is doing some interesting things with ChatGPT:
https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/the-pirates-hacking-manual-of-aether
That post is a long training “Prompt” followed by some esoteric questions to the trained “Artificial Intelligenc” software. If you wade through it, you’ll see that Clif exhibits lots of human GI (that’s Genuine Intelligence : )
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If the new AI is all that, it should prolly come up with a more innocuous name, like
chatCCP or darpa spelled backwards, before IT GOES SELF-AWARE and starts sending out terminators. Or will there be a re-branding, world-wide naming contest, kinda like a robo-puppy – Stinky 13.0, brought to you by Macrohard!
So far, it’s like a school kid – learning to read, then reading to learn. No need for a trade, or a sport even. Just a better optic.
Bill Gates has financially backed a Chinese firm that is working on creating “super babies”.
Great. Now they’ll regurgitate the entire European classical piano repertoire by the age of two and still champion their utter dearth of creativity.
l suppose the very definition of ‘Progress’ at the bleeding edge of ‘Modernity’ ..is the obese pan-sexual people of Wallymart clutching their l fag chumpbot…
as they line for their ‘Booster’ and free donut…
At MacDonald’s..
And of course learning and decision making are only as good as the DATA and “facts” available for ciphering. (A.I. told me so)
Caution: DeepState dirty rats at work.
“Of particular interest on the list is a section called “Advanced technologies for use in Military Information Support Operations (MISO),” interpreted by the The Intercept as “a Pentagon euphemism for its global propaganda and deception efforts.”
By the way a contributing factor (and a large one) to the collapse of SVB and a factor that nobody wants you to know…
ls that large amounts of cash was squandered on Al and Directed Evolution using Al.. (no doubt for the CiA and their owners)…in pursuit of elusive and lucrative lPO’s…
All of it useless because it isn’t real science ..the current chumpbots being just glorified search engines who also happen tell lies because they are programmed to.. (Woke filtering..punishment routines etc)..just like Gurgle
For Example… imagine a future (if you can) where all those tedious telephone answering services all right thinking men despise..
are now running your vaccine induced brain cancer therapy or injecting you with the ‘latest’ gene therapies because you are a fat lazy shit covered in boils who thinks he’s a teenage girl…
based on ‘Data’ obtained from the Unterwebz..(doctors and nurses long retired now serve bug cuisine for minimal ‘credits’ at fifteen minute zone ‘restaurants’.. dressed in latex underwear) .
l mean what could go wrong?..
Yup…
“As a result (of AI), mankind is now facing an era of collective stupor and conformity.”
THAT happened a LONG time ago.. the TB being a prime example! 🤣
AI will learn lifelong .
will it become second Oracle of Delphi ?
So just the other day, the Sun released a massive super flare. Luckily, or not, this even happened on the far side of the Sun, so will have minor effects on Earth.
If this SF had been directed at Earth, kiss your AI good bye. In fact, kiss all your tech good bye.
Over the next few days, this active region on the Sun will face the Earth. We have another 3yrs of peak solar activity left in this cycle.
@ antiJHWH are you speaking from experience that you have had in your paradise of “Wakanda”? After all did you Africans not invent AI before the west stole it from you?
@ ROBERT
you put me into the JAHI SAMI drawer ?
tssssssssssssssssssssseeeee
I thought I left a comment about the inferiority of machines and a Simpsons joke; maybe it was somewhere else