- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:59:56 +0200
- To: janowicz@ucsb.edu
- Cc: Georg Rehm <georg.rehm@dfki.de>, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com>, W3C AIKR CG <public-aikr@w3.org>, semantic-web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Public-cogai <public-cogai@w3.org>
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čt 30. 3. 2023 v 9:04 odesílatel Krzysztof Janowicz <janowicz@ucsb.edu> napsal: > On 3/30/23 08:27, Georg Rehm wrote: > > This letter is nothing but hype. Emily Bender dissected the letter on > Twitter and put together the essence of it on Medium. I’d like to invite > everyone to have a look: > > > https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/policy-makers-please-dont-fall-for-the-distractions-of-aihype-e03fa80ddbf1 > > > My problem with posts like this link above is that they are no longer > about science and scientific discourse but about activism. This is not even > mentioning how deeply misleading the parrot analogy is anyways. > > I agree with Stefan's argument about the speed of major social disruption. > Still, concerning the big picture, I worry more about human stupidity > (killing thousands daily) than artificial intelligence. > > IMHO, one of the major problems (and I see many positive aspects > otherwise) with GPT-like bots is that they take the friction out of content > creation. While this may be positive in some more distant future, for now, > it means that the entire way in which the Web, flow of information, > education, and social media 'content' works may see rapid change within > months to a degree where a majority of content we may see in 2024 could be > synthetic. After all, there will be enough folks (human intelligence...) > that want to get rich quickly by getting paid from ads for the thousands of > AI-generated articles and images they can now post on their portals or > social media every minute. > "majority of content we see in 2024 could be synthetic" -- this would have enormous implications for the web, w3c etc. if true -- hard to quantify, maybe an analysis of common crawl would give some quick results > > > Of course, this is not the only issue and maybe not the most important > one, but it points to an underlying problem: too long have we called the > universe, the brain, AI, and so on the 'last frontiers of science', thereby > forgetting that it is, in fact, US. We (science, policymakers, etc.) do not > understand society at large. We are puzzled by election results,wars, > reactions to Covid measures, lack of action on climate change, and so on. > Hence, we may struggle to maintain civil order and discourse during the > disruptions to job markets ahead of us, all while being flooded with an > unprecedented amount of content (e.g., fake videos) with super-human > social/cognitive engineering skills. > > Krzysztof > > > > > Best regards, > Georg > > > On 29. Mar 2023, at 21:46, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program < > metadataportals@yahoo.com> wrote: > > This letter speaks for itself. > > > https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-experts-urge-pause-training-ai-systems-that-can-outperform-gpt-4-2023-03-29/ > > > I may not want to put it as bluntly as Elon Musk, who cautioned against > unregulated AI which he called "more dangerous than nukes", but when Nick > Bostrom, the late Stephen Hawking, and dozens, no hundreds of international > experts, scientists and industry leaders start ringing the bell, is is time > to pause and reflect. > > Every aspect of daily life, every industry, education systems, academia > and even our cognitive rights will be impacted. > > I would also like to point out that some science fiction authors have done > a great job on very accurately predicting a dystopian future ruled by > technology, perhaps the greatest of them all being Philip K. Dick. > > But there are dozens of other authors as well and they all give a fairly > good impression what awaits us if we do not regulate and control the > further development of AI now. > > > Milton Ponson > GSM: +297 747 8280 > PO Box 1154, Oranjestad > Aruba, Dutch Caribbean > Project Paradigm: Bringing the ICT tools for sustainable development to > all stakeholders worldwide through collaborative research on applied > mathematics, advanced modeling, software and standards development > > > -- > > *Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm>* > Principal Researcher and Research Fellow > [image: DFKI] <http://www.dfki.de> > > DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany > Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 – Mobile: +49 173 2735829 > georg.rehm@dfki.de > Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH > Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern > Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan > Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 > > > -- > Krzysztof Janowicz > Professor for Geoinformatics, Director Center for Spatial Studies > Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara > 4830 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060 > > Email: jano@geog.ucsb.edu > Webpage: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~jano/ > Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net > >
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