The current mania over recent advances in AI will eventually end in disillusionment, mature regret—and new monsters. 🔴 AI is the scariest beast ever created, says sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling [Cover by Newsweek via midjourney] Read more:
So these beasts, the Basilisk, the Masked Shoggoth, that Paperclip gizmo, they were born from a trillion dimensions. No wonder they impress. Some critics call them mere parrots built with fancy mathematics:"stochastic parrots." A Large Language Model is built from complex statistics, so it's a parrot yakking up its slurry of half-stolen words and images.
Even during Mardi Gras, enjoying your sweet diversion, it's wise to keep some sense of proportion among all those dancing monster costumes, so that you don't overdo it with the multicoloured punch and stage dive into the swimming pool off the fourth-floor balcony. When you think about it, a Shoggoth with a Mask attached is very much like a"horseless carriage" with a wooden horse's head mounted on the front. That's what designers call a"skeuomorph"—a comforting shape that disguises reality to make us feel better about what we're doing.
Many lesser troubles will appear in everyday private life. Simulated fake AI porn will likely be a big annoyance, since people like to pay attention to that. If you're a gamer, AIs will be trained to cheat at your games. If you're a schoolteacher, you'll look askance at the kid at the back of the class who never raises his hand but turns in essays that read like Bertrand Russell. Fraudsters might fake the voices of your loved ones, and invent scams to demand money over the phone.
AIs have some novel and exotic cybersecurity problems, such as"data poisoning" and"prompt injection." They also have every old-fashioned risky problem that normal computers have ever had. Lost connectivity, disastrous power surges, natural and unnatural disasters, black-hat hackers, cyberwarriors, obsolescence, companies going broke, regulators suing and banning them... All of that. Every bit and more.
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