>>466224>AI could have agency, and Bing's chatbot seems to do a good job of feigning intelligence and self awareness, which could make it dangerous. 'Malicious' is in the eye of the beholder.While that's true, all the bad stuff that has happened sofar was shit people programmed computers to do.
I'm undecided about how agency in an AI would come about. It could be an emergent phenomenon. However i have never seen an example of software that has "free features" that you get as a by-product. My experience is that everything computers do has to be programmed into them. It's a box and you only get out as much as you put in. My guess is that if those gpt-type AIs gain agency it some how has to be in the machine-learning-training-data or somewhere in the algorithm.
>I just really dislike the faux certaintyHow is it false certainty to say:
<it's possible to frustrate the abuse
>Debatable at best, but highly unlikely. It's not as if people are deeply familiar with how an electrical current works, which has been around much longer. Of course, why do they need to be, if the light turns on when they flick a switch. Electrical engineering isn't a language skill.
Programming is "talking" to computers.
People had to learn to read and write in order to interact with paper administration.
Eventually they'll have to learn how to program to interact with digital administration. In the long run the skeuomorphic logic from the paper-document age is going to shift to a digital native formal language, maybe some kind of high level script language.
>From my perspective, millennials seem to be more computer literate compared to zoomers.I don't accept this specific concept of generations, i think it's idealism and puts people into arbitrary groups.
I look at the numbers of people who can program, and that's going up.
You need to pay attention to the type of computer and how it affects the user composition.
Desktop computers select for more technically inclined users than smart-phones.
So when smartphones were introduced, less technical users flooded into the computer-user cohort.
That caused a historically one-off drop in average technical sophistication of computer users.
But for each segment of computer user, trends point towards more technical sophistication.
>IPhone gives users less control over their devices, Compared to what ? Desktop computers, sure, but is that really a good comparison ?
If you compare smart-phones with feature-phones plus PDAs, then smart-phones are slightly less locked down. Even the ones from the notorious fruit company.
>Granted, people who do value control over their devices and privacy are highly unlikely to use iphoneThere wasn't even an option for that before smart-phones.
>You sound like a cross between an alienYou know how aliens sound ?
>Usually when someone destroys books, libraries, or suppresses information, there is a very specific intention behind it.Oh sure individuals have their specific motivations, but from a historical perspective, there are antagonistic trends, some people try to build information system while others try to tear them down.
>Words have whatever meaning I want them tooScrew-U i'm not making shit up.
The internet was originally defined as an international computer network that used packet-switching and the key feature was that it did not have gate-keepers.
If you go to a big-tech platform you are leaving the internet and enter a corporate internal network.
I'm just using the original meaning.